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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Governments need to make digital services more relevant: Accenture One-third of the respondents in seven-country survey said they didn't know how to interact with the government online
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
U.K. citizens have online privacy concerns with government One-third of those surveyd said the biggest barrier to increased digital interaction is the concern that the government would have "too much" personal data
Friday, April 13, 2012
Context-based computing: What the network will know Systems that understand what we're doing and what we need, even before we need it – that's long been the dream. CIOs who make it a reality will prove just how innovative they are
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Nokia lays off 3,500 employees The company plans to close a factory in Romania and some operations in Germany and the U.S.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Virtualization floats ITWC THIS WEEK VIDEO PLAYLIST Jeff Jedras takes to a gondola to hear about McMaster University's virtualization efforts, the director of Accenture's technology lab explains why data is the new platform, and the mysterious case of the disappearing Galaxay Tab
Monday, July 11, 2011
Outsourcing customers focus too much on SLAs: survey While tight SLAs are critical to IT and business process outsourcing deals, they can distract customers and providers from larger transformation opportunities in their relationships, is one survey finding from Accenture and the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Nokia hands Symbian OS work to Accenture The company also plans to cut a further 4,000 jobs by the end of next year. Accenture will initially provide Nokia with software development and support services for the Symbian mobile platform, and later with software and services around the Windows Phone platform
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
SAS and Accenture form predictive analytics group Business analytics vendor SAS Institute and consulting firm Accenture are joining forces to help customers manage business intelligence. Analysts think the move puts SAS/Accenture in competition with IBM.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Citizen Customer What e-government can learn from the private sector in technology
Monday, July 14, 2008
MPs slam IT system problems at agency for British farmers IT system designed by Accenture, which cost hundreds of millions of pounds, is unsuited to agency's needs, says committee
Monday, April 07, 2008
Accenture CTO imagines IT changes in 2038 The consulting firm hosts its annual customer event where Don Rippert makes his best predictions about the future of technology, and the challenge firms face in striking a balance between usability and ubiquity
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Managers waste hours in fruitless searches, study reveals A survey of 1,000 middle managers at large companies in the U.S. and U.K. found that managers spend as many as two hours a day searching for information, and more than half of the data they find has no value to them. 
Thursday, May 06, 2004
Study: UK e-gov needs more haste, less speed Despite significant spending on e-government, the U.K. is continuing to fall behind other countries in delivering usable electronic government services, dropping to ninth place this year, according to a new study from Accenture Ltd. 
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Accenture gets slice of Deutsche Bank outsourcing pie Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's largest bank, has agreed to outsource two internal business processes to Accenture Ltd. as part of its ambitious program to cut costs and increase efficiency by moving non-core operations to external service providers.
Sunday, December 07, 2003
IT middle managers: They're already gone Half your IT middle managers may be planning to quit as soon as the economy improves.
Thursday, October 30, 2003
EDS says sayonara to 5,200 jobs Plano, Tex.-based computer services firm EDS Corp. announced plans Wednesday to chop 5,200 jobs — four per cent of its worldwide workforce — by the end of 2004, as part of an overarching restructuring plan that includes service consolidation.
Sunday, June 30, 2002
Good intentions When Catherine Bohill and her fiancé, Jason Long, volunteered to work in Cuba for a year, they weren't shooting for typical IT work and they didn't get it. What they got to do, including buying computers for Cuban orphanages and managing sonar on a ship scouring the Caribbean for buried Spanish colonial era treasure, was a far cry from the IT jobs they left at Nortel Networks Corp. and DaimlerChyrsler AG in Germany.
Thursday, May 02, 2002
Canada tops list for e-government initiatives Canadians want their online government services, they're wishing for them, they're waiting for them, but they are still being denied.
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Fujitsu, Accenture to form consulting tie Fujitsu Ltd. and the Japanese unit of IT services and consulting giant Accenture Ltd. will tie up to strengthen their IT service businesses, the two companies announced Tuesday.
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Fujitsu and Accenture to form consulting tie Fujitsu Ltd. and the Japanese unit of IT services and consulting giant Accenture Ltd. will tie up to strengthen their IT service businesses, the two companies announced Tuesday.
Thursday, November 29, 2001
Customers become king for a day Executives eager to learn more about customer relationship management software (CRM) had ample opportunity to do so on Wednesday, a day that saw the release of a national survey with CRM numbers and the opening of a high-level conference devoted to the issue.
Wednesday, November 28, 2001
Customers become king for a day Executives eager to learn more about CRM software had ample opportunity to do so recently in Toronto during a high-level conference devoted to the issue.
Thursday, July 12, 2001
Canadian executives still committed to e-business Canadian executives have such enthusiasm for e-business that neither a disappointing rate of investment returns, nor a dodgy economy has tempered their zeal, a new survey has found.
Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Study: ASP adoption rate in infancy The adoption of services from application service providers is currently in its infancy, but awareness of ASPs is high throughout most of the world, according to initial results from a survey commissioned by the ASP Industry Consortium.
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