Archive for February, 2012

Accenture’s Young Professional of the Year 2012

Accenture gives great value to talent development. Therefore, Accenture decided to participate in the Young Professional of the Year (YPY) initiative of the Intercompany Association (ICA) where several young professionals compete for the title of ‘Young Professional of the Year 2012’.

To select the Accenture Young Professional of the Year our first step was to Read more…

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40 procent van de beslissingen wordt op basis van ‘gut feeling’ genomen

Uit een onderzoek, uitgevoerd door Accenture, blijkt dat 40 procent van de beslissingen van bedrijven gedaan wordt op basis van ‘gut feeling’ (onderbuikgevoel). Dat is best een opmerkelijk getal, aangezien dit ook om beslissingen gaat waarin grote bedragen een rol spelen, en/of om beslissingen die een bepaalde significante koers bepalen!

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Essentials for Excelling with Analytics

The overwhelming amounts of data organizations face today is not limited to what resides in their collective data centers; it also includes external and largely unstructured data found in e-mails, blogs, and more—much of it generated by third parties.

Turning that wealth of data into usable benchmarks for sound business decisions is a real challenge. Part of the problem is that many organizations are struggling to manage information that extends far beyond the structured data in their data centers. Despite major investments in business intelligence (BI) tools over the last decade, many organizations still make decisions in ad hoc ways and struggle to master analytics.

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Round Table 2012 – From Harbor to Hub: Port integration in the Biofuel Supply Chain

On January 24th Accenture organized the first Biofuel Round Table  titled “From Harbor to Hub: Port integration in the Biofuel Supply Chain” in order to discuss and gain more insight into the ideas, challenges and possibilities to integrate the Port of Rotterdam (and harbors in general) into the Biofuel Supply Chain. With 27 attendees representing 20 organizations including Vopak, Shell and Argos the Round Table started with a welcoming note and introduction by ‘trendwatcher’ –and moderator of the evening– Richard Lamb in the Sky Room of the SS Rotterdam.

The Round Table was organized to provide a comprehensive overview of the Biofuel supply chain, determine how this chain develops based on influences of macro-economic environment and analysed the role of ports in this chain. To fuel the discussion among the audience there was room for discussion with individual statements for each theme after the sessions.

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Personal Branding

ICA (InterCompany Association) is het grootste netwerk van hoogopgeleide Young Professionals in Nederland. ICA vertegenwoordigt ruim 45 bedrijfsjongerenverenigingen van top werkgevers uit Nederland. Accenture is ook aangesloten bij ICA. ICA organiseert regelmatig events met onderwerpen zoals het nieuwe werken of sessie over nieuwe technologieën . Afgelopen week was er een event over personal branding.

Je hoort het steeds vaker, maar wat is het nou eigenlijk? Is het nodig? Read more…

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Delivering choice and control through differentiation: 82% like it!

The thing about passion is that it is catchy…the energy it gives rubs off onto others.  A colleague of mine had a recent ‘service experience’ and wanted to share it with me and I would like to share it with all of you.  I would like to introduce you to Lucinde Klop (@Lucinde_K ) – another passionate customer service consultant from Accenture – and this is her service experience.

Selecting a new health insurance plan has been on my ‘to do list’ for a couple of weeks. I was not looking forward to this task, as I was expecting my only choice was between marginal differences in monthly payments and reimbursements.  However, when I finally got to it, I was highly surprised! Not only could I choose from monthly payment options, but I could also choose between various levels of service defined per insurance package.

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