Accenture sees Cloud Computing as a major component of its future growth strategies, according to CEO Bill Green. “Within Accenture one of our principles is to operate our company with one foot in today and one foot in tomorrow. We are aggressively positioning ourselves in important ways for future growth,” said Green. “This is all about growth. Growth in leadership, market share, revenues, profits and we are laser focused on it.
“We have completed a refresh of our strategy for growth. We had over 100 top executives from across our entire organisation involved. We did this with a bias the economy has not just slowed, it is resetting itself. It will emerge differently in terms of client needs, business models and buyer values.
“We have been underway with two major thrusts. The first thrust is refreshing and enhancing our core business. Our core is powerful and the envy of our competitors. It is strong and differentiated but we are raising our game even further. In consulting we are refreshing and revitalizing our market offerings. Our core of supply chain, finance and performance management, talent management, customer service and all others have been sharpened and focused. Our industry programs and deep industry skills and capabilities that are so unique and differentiated are being deepened and strengthened.”
Here comes The Cloud
In all of this, Accenture – which made millions from the deployment of on premise solutions from firms such as SAP – now sees a move to The Cloud as inevitable. “Our value propositions have been aligned with today’s business needs, not yesterdays,” said Green In systems integration and technology we continue on our journey to reduce our cost to serve. We have built new offerings around The Cloud and SaaS.”
But is it a straight choice between on premise or on demand? “I think we have to do both, right?,” said Green. “Because we do have underlying assets, soft and hard, that we need to leverage. If you think about our assets whether they be software or whether they be just ideas, knowledge and know how and intellectual property, The Cloud gives you an opportunity to capture those, encapsulate them and then leverage them at scale. That is important to us. We also see a huge piece of business that is around helping our clients move to the private Cloud in their own environment. If you think about the size and nature of the complexity of our clients they could be Cloud-based providers just for themselves internally. So there is going to be a lot focused on that.
“We announced joining Cisco around the NFI communications and the sort of next-generation data centre stuff and our focus is the journey from today to The Cloud. It seems like falling off a truck but it is not. It is complex, expensive and it is multi-year and all of the people that want to provide those services, Cloud based services, are going to need implementation arms and legs in order to get people from where they are to where they are going to be.
“So right now the offerings around road maps and plans and business cases and how do you do that and then it is also about how do we exploit the assets that we have, frankly scattered around the globe in Accenture, and get them resident in a cloud-type environment that we can take advantage of be that software or just intellectual property that some of our partners would want to convert into software and provide for their service environments.”
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