Business Process Outsourcing Introduction Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated with manufacturing firms, such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments of its supply chain. BPO is typically categorized into back office outsourcing - which includes internal business functions such as human
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Post Event Report : “Ethics in the Workplace” Panel Discussion Event 11th October 2011 at Accenture, London EC3M 3BD Report By: Manisha Dahad, Centre for Social Brilliance, manisha@socialbrilliance.org Vinay Gulati, Spinlondon Network Limited, vinay.gulati@spinlondon.co.uk Introduction Spinlondon Network Limited conducted an interactive Workshop on Ethics in Business in August 2010, which was very successful. A year later in August 2011, on popular demand, Spinlondon organised a Round-Table
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Technology Environment IT Project 1 This IT project 1 paper gives a summary of the interview I had conducted with an IT leader in my organization. It gives a brief background of my company, Accenture, as well as the person interviewed. Some of the topics covered in the interview incudes the interviewer’s thought’s on Kaku’s new paradigm statement, Accenture’s decision making style when it comes to new technology implementation, as well as, recent enhancement to IT Innovation services that are
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Case Summary Accenture knowledge management is a public company. They started trading at New York Stock Exchange in July 2001. The firm is consolidated 47 country partnerships into one corporation with a headquarters location in Bermuda. Their services include consulting, alliances, technology, venture capital and outsourcing. Initial success and consistent revenue growth of 17% year after year stalled in year 2002 and 2003. Accenture remained profitable during this period by cutting cost of operations
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Technology Building Your Cloud Strategy with Accenture 2 Cloud computing, in its simplest form, allows companies to procure technology as services, including infrastructure, applications, platforms and business processes, via the Internet. Because using an IT resource no longer depends on having the capital to own that resource, companies can now source, scale and deliver capacity unbound by physical location, labor or capital, thanks to the cloud. And that changes the game. With cloud
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rules apply. In this project I am going to address a general description of the marketing process, a brief look at how some services companies do their marketing, with particular focus on the software solutions division of the global multi-national Accenture, for whom I previously worked, so I will be talking largely from personal experience when referring to them and the online auction site eBay, of which I am an extremely regular user, buying on average 2 items per week from their site. Finally, I
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Change management project: The HP merger with Compaq Table of content: • HP- presentation • Subject of change- Hp’s merger with Compaq • Promoters of the change and their motivation • Resisting forces • Critical mass • Trigger. Reducing resisting forces. Results • Change process-dynamics of the forces that promote change and the inertial forces • Analysis of the result. Residual stress • Conclusions HP In 1938, two Stanford
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Direct Energy -Brand Report Card Global Marketing 1: Marketing Fundamentals Veronica Cheong [Email] [Web address] Table of Contents I. Executive Summary ................................................................................................1 Brand Scorecard ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Top 3 Recommendations .............................................
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ecommerce retailers in the United States. Additionally, the company operates businesses in Canada, China and Mexico. Altogether, Best Buy employs more than 140,000 people and earns annual revenues of more than $40 billion. By aligning with Accenture, Best Buy can leverage the provider’s global expertise in building and providing HR services and systems, allowing it to achieve a flexible, scalable delivery model much faster than if it were to build these capabilities in house. In addition to
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Symbian is an open-source (EPL) mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture.[5] Symbian was originally developed by Symbian Ltd.,[6] as a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. The current form of Symbian is an open-source platform developed by Symbian Foundation in 2009, as the successor of the original Symbian OS. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone
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