Archive for April, 2012
Posted on April 27th, 2012 at 4:40 pm by Jort Possel
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Theme: About Accenture, Latest Post | Tags: Brands, Image, Management Consulting, Management Team, Managers, MT, MT500, Rankings
Management Team, the largest business magazine in the Netherlands, has released its MT500: the annual ranking of the top 500 companies with the best image in the Netherlands. This list is based on independent research and mirrors the opinions of nearly 1500 managers.
Coming from the 75th position in 2010, in 2011 we climbed 31 positions to number 44. Following last year’s great result we are more than proud to announce that Accenture managed to reach the top 50 for the second time ranking #35 on this year’s MT 500.
In its write-up, MT expects Accenture to rise even further in the future. For the full article, see below (in Dutch). Read more…
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Posted on April 24th, 2012 at 12:35 pm by Harald Timmer
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Theme: Business Transformation, Latest Post | Tags: Agility, Cloud, customer expectations, customer interaction, customer satisfaction, Customer Service, Data Governance, Data Management, digital revolution, Digital Technology, Multichannel management, Technology developments, The Next Web, The Next Web conference, The next web Summit, Time to market, TNW, TNW2012
The Next Web Conference, held in Amsterdam later this week, is set to make one thing very clear: to remain competitive organizations need a robust and flexible business model to support the rapid and radically changing digital revolution. Up until now the digital revolution has been mainly about information. Customers have had increasing levels of access to static and dynamic information which allows them to take on more control and create new expectations inthe interactionwith organizations.
At Accenture we believe the future of the digital revolution will be about the interaction. Organizations will be challenged to design and deliver personalized interactions between themselves and their (potential) customers. Customers demand that suppliers understand their needs and they expect a tailored experience. Therefore organizations need to take an active step to make use of the available data and continue to enrich the customer profile with new data obtained during the interactions or via external sources. In addition organizations also need to take note of the customers increasing willingness to interact with their peers through social platforms. Enabling these peer to peer interactions is vital to create brand awareness and market penetration of organizations products and services.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2012 at 1:51 pm by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
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Theme: Business Transformation, Latest Post | Tags: Amazon, Apps, Blogging, Breakthrough technologies, Cloud, Crowdsourcing, Curated content, Digital environment, Digital Technology, Facebook, High Performance IT, Hosting services, Innovation that works, Instagram, Mark Randall, MySpace, Pinterest, Social Media, Social Network, The Next Web, The next web Summit, TNW, TNW summit, TNW2012, Werner Vogels
This blog post is written by guest blogger Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. Boris is one of the founders of The Next Web Conference and co-hosts TNW Summit 2012.
The web is changing the world around us and how we deal with information. It is changing our jobs, our perspective on the world and the way we communicate. And while we try to adapt to this new world, the web itself is an ever-changing phenomenon increasing its speed.
When we look at how the web has changed since it gained widespread adoption at the end of the previous century we see a roller coaster of innovation, death, rebirth and recombination of ideas. Every other year new services come to life and suck away all attention from the current market leaders. MySpace had 300 million users before Facebook stole its thunder and became the dominant social network. Before that Friendster ruled the social networking world.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 am by Maarten Noom
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Theme: Careers | Tags:
Partnerships met NGO’s was het thema van de eerste casedag van de ‘Young Professional of the Year’ verkiezing waar Accenture, samen met nog 20 andere grote bedrijven, aan meedoet. Voorafgaand werd ons, de kandidaten, gevraagd een partnership met een NGO te beschrijven. In het geval van Accenture is er keuze te over: Accenture werkt samen met meer dan 15 NGO’s! Voor mijn case heb ik de samenwerking met tussen Accenture en VSO (Voluntary Services Oversea) besproken. Binnen dit partnership worden Read more…
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Posted on April 20th, 2012 at 12:00 pm by Remco Batelaan
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Theme: Latest Post, Public DiaLOG | Tags: Netwerkplein, Nieuwe Werken, overheidsdialoog, Overheidsparticipatie, Social Media, Sociale netwerken, UWV
De manier waarop mensen met elkaar communiceren, ontwikkelt zich de laatste jaren in een razend tempo. Nieuwe technologieën maken communicatie snel en transparant. Iedereen kiest zelf waar, wanneer, waarmee, waarover en met wie ze contact leggen. Thuis kijken we naar The Voice of Holland met de iPad in de aanslag, om via Facebook, Whatsapp en Twitter onze kleurrijke mening te delen. Op het werk Yammeren we van projectplan via Google Docs naar offertes en met LinkedIn werken we aan onze eigen professionele ontwikkeling. Geen evenement, congres of project start bovendien zonder #.
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Posted on April 18th, 2012 at 11:53 am by Barend van Doorn
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Theme: Business Transformation, Innovation that works, Latest Post | Tags: banking, Driving Growth, Financial Services, Innovation that works, Profitable growth, Revenue growth, revenue sustainability
Banks in the developed markets hit by the crisis in recent years have struggled to grow revenues consistently. In the new landscape – emerging in the wake of the turmoil –banks in Europe and America have recovered a degree of stability and are returning to moderate profitability. These changes have led to an increased volatility and a difficult trading environment in Europe and the US. Banking stakeholders, governments, regulators and the public are all demanding disruptive changes and require a sustainable recovery.
Over the past three years, Accenture has been conducting a study called Banking 2012. This study examines the basic levers increasing banking profitability and the operating models required to deliver sustainable profitability in the new environment.
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Posted on April 17th, 2012 at 12:05 pm by Paul van der Linden
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Theme: Analytics, Column | Tags: Analytics, Basel II, Customer Analytics, Data Governance, Descriptive Analytics, globalization, Jeanne Harris, Master Data Management, Metadata, Predictive Analytics, S&P500, Solvency II, Tom Davenport
According to Accenture research from 2002-2009, organizations that invest in Analytics perform significantly better than those that take this phenomenon for granted. For instance, organizations in the S&P 500-category that invest heavily in advanced Analytics are on average 64% more successful than their competition. In addition, organizations investing in an analytical mindset and skillset recover more quickly from the economic recession.
With this in mind, it is not surprising that the interest in Analytics is growing rapidly. But what does Analytics mean? Is it relevant to all companies? And what are the pitfalls and misunderstandings?
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Posted on April 16th, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Anja Montijn-Groenewoud
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Theme: Latest Post, Open leadership, Talent Organization | Tags: generatie Y, Mobiliteit, Nieuwe Werken, Talent Management, Werkgeverschap
Dit artikel is afkomstig uit de april editie van Informatie: maandblad voor de informatievoorziening.
Informatie, April 2012
Het is tegenwoordig voor bijna elke professional mogelijk om plaats- en tijd onafhankelijk te werken. Het Nieuwe Werken dus. Dit zorgt er onder meer voor dat talentvolle, hoogopgeleide ouders (met name moeders) werk en privé beter kunnen combineren. Dit komt niet alleen henzelf ten goede, maar ook de economie in zijn geheel. Bovendien helpt het ons bij de aanpak van de naderende vergrijzing. De komende jaren zullen zich immers kenmerken door een grote uitstroom van oudere werknemers.
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Posted on April 16th, 2012 at 9:55 am by Laurens Coeveld
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Theme: Careers | Tags:
In my previous blog I introduced my enrollment in the Learning Journey towards Kathmandu, Nepal. During 10 days, I was part of a team of 10 colleagues from Accenture Netherlands working on a development project for SABAH. Being accompanied by a leadership coach, we also worked on personal development. Our time in Nepal is over and I can truly say: it was a great experience and a big success! In a classic deadline-pressured sprint, we finished our work on Tuesday after midnight. The output consisted of Read more…
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Posted on April 13th, 2012 at 12:04 pm by Joost de Haas
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Theme: High Performance Business, Latest Post | Tags: AEX, Financial crisis, High Performance Business, HPB, HPB 3, Jumping s-curve, S-cruve, VUCA world
In 2008, just before the crisis, Accenture launched its first High Performance Business (HPB) study, which revealed that companies listed on Amsterdam’s AEX index were underperforming their international peers, largely due to less growth. Shortly afterwards, the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis on the US house market led to a freeze in the credit supply in the financial sector. This triggered an economic crisis that hit (international) trade, which in turn resulted in a social crisis driven by increased unemployment rates.
The second HPB study, published during the crisis in 2009, revealed that AEX-listed companies were still underperforming and less well positioned for growth. However, this time their underperformance was also due to the fact that they lacked the operational agility to adjust quickly to the changed market conditions.
The following year saw a slow recovery, largely fueled by government investment in infrastructure projects, stimulus packages, the restocking of global supply chains and strong growth in many emerging markets. However, these measures only addressed part of the core issues, and the remaining weaknesses in segments of the banking sector and lagging production volumes in mature markets remain a major drag on the global economy to this day. Read more…
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