Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage By Eric M. Lowitt and Jim Grimsley May 2009 Case Study Hewlett-Packard: Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage Having worked with thousands of corporate and government clients around the world, Accenture has long understood the special characteristics that enable organizations to outperform their peers—to become high-performance businesses. High-performance businesses are those that: • effectively balance current needs and future opportunities,
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MIS Mini-cases -- 1 of 30 Cases for Use in Management Information Systems MIS Mini-cases -- 2 of 30 MIS Mini-cases -- 3 of 30 Case 01 -- Freeway Ford You are a management consultant working for Franklin Absolom, the majority stockholder for a group of 10 automobile dealerships. He has asked you to spend several days at Freeway Ford, a dealership that is not performing up to its potential. You are not to go ―looking for trouble‖: instead, your assignment is to find ways to help management
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Abstract: In 2001 Accenture made the very bold decision to separate from its parent company Arthur Andersen. The start-up company faced the same problem of building a new IT infrastructure but it has its bright potential ahead. The main dilemma is to be chosen in between 3 options: to keep using the decentralized approach
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. The traits essential for a consulting organization – innovative, creative, dynamic, strategic. 2. On August 7, 200 Andersen Consulting has officially separated from Arthur Andersen. In return for its independence, Andersen Consulting had to change its name as the Andersen Consulting name was to expire December 31, 2000 the company had begun to search for a new name in advance of the arbitration decision. It was very complicated because the company had to quickly create a new name, effectively
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called Accenture People, it resembles popular social networking sites, much like Facebook, and allows employees to create their own profiles provide a glimpse of each employee’s role in Accenture, including technical expertise and the projects in which he or she was involved. For a global company with numerous business units like Accenture, the idea is to simply make everyone more familiar with each other’s background and then encourage knowledge sharing. In the Philippines alone, Accenture has
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Case Accenture Accenture began in 1942 as Administrative Accounting Group, the consulting arm of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. In 1989, it launched as a separate business unit focused on IT consulting and bearing the name Andersen Consulting. At that time, though it was earning $1 billion annually, Andersen Consulting had low brand awareness among information technology consultancies and was commonly mistaken for its accounting corporate parent. To build its brand and separate itself from the
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a runaway project,” Raj Agarwal, a former city employee who managed the early part of Nycaps, told the New York Times, which broke the story in its Sept. 24 paper. He told the Times that he had repeated disputes with the primary contractor, the Accenture consulting firm, because he felt the company was billing for more workers than were necessary, at up to $383 per hour. But he said the Bloomberg administration would not get involved. “I did not get the sense that the Mayor‟s Office was paying attention
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In December of 2001, a major powerhouse American energy, commodities and services company, Enron Corporation, filed for bankruptcy. This was not just an ordinary corporate bankruptcy; this was the largest corporate bankruptcy in the history of the United States (Gutman, 2002). Understanding the reason behind the bankruptcy filed by Enron, which employed over 20,000 people, is instrumental in understanding why major changes in the accounting industry have to come to pass. To understand why Enron
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Arthur Andersen:- Arthur Andersen founded the company in 1913 but after his death Leonard Spacek took the leadership in 1947. Under his leadership of 26 years, Authur Andersen & Co. becomes a genuine international company. They had opened their offices in more than 25 countries with a staff of more than 12000. In 1970’s they started providing consulting services and by the 1988 they become the largest consulting company of the world. However in the mid 1980’s many cases were filed against the
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Case Study: Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture An introduction to Accenture • Accenture today is a multinational management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. • Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland • World’s Largest IT Consulting firm by revenue • In 2014, reported net revenue of 30 billion • 305,000 employees world wide • Servicing clients in more than 200 cities and 56 countries History of Accenture • Started out as Andersen Consulting a division of the accounting firm
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