management system at accenture in comment and analysis

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

Comment Accenture's Okin says: "Three or four years ago, people wouldn't understand simple stuff around patch management. Even the more principle-based rules can cause problems because they often aren't harmonised, says Stuart Okin, UK lead for security at... [02 Jul 2007]

Information overload

Comment Greg Todd, senior executive for Accenture Information Management Services, says: "It's a consistent theme - there's so much information being thrown up by different technology platforms. Almost three in five managers of the 1,000 surveyed by... [30 Mar 2007]

Plugging and preventing data leaks

Comment Floris van den Dool, head of Accenture's European security practice, explains: "Many smaller organisations consider that data ownership is the responsibility of the IT department but it is not - it is the business' responsibility. [07 Mar 2007]

How BI can help IT win over the board

Comment Royce Bell, global head of Accenture's Information Management practice, advises IT departments to define what they mean by business intelligence. And yet, according to Accenture's Bell, the IT department often needs business intelligence the most... [05 Oct 2006]

Analysis: Can the public sector attract IT high-flyers?

Comment Ian Watmore left his position as UK managing director of Accenture to become the first government-wide CIO in 2004 and was last year promoted to his current permanent secretary role at the Cabinet Office as head of Blair's delivery unit. [20 Apr 2006]

The future of mega-deals - divvying up the services cake

Comment Four US giants in particular seem to crop up again and again - Accenture, CSC, EDS and IBM Global Services. Consider in the UK alone parts of the NHS IT programme (worth a total of £2.3bn), Ministry of Defence overhaul (£5bn) and criminal justice... [02 Jun 2003]

The Ovum View: Cable & Wireless

Comment C&W is in the middle of radical restructuring, with its 23 US data centres being cut to 15 to provide enough capacity to continue as sub-contractor to Accenture in the North American market and grow new business. [27 Feb 2003]

CRM and ASP - welcome to TLA heaven

Comment The real beneficiaries have been the systems integrators, from heavyweights such as Accenture to niche integration players. Organisations with very large numbers of direct customer relationships typically have multiple customer-facing departments... [26 Oct 2001]

Model Management: Information overload, or short attention span?

Comment Davenport and Beck, academics and consultants at Accenture, argue that today's businesses are headed for disaster unless they can overcome these dangerously high attention deficits that threaten to cripple today's workplace. [04 Sep 2001]

John Lamb's week: WWW inventor goes wireless

Comment Kalido will be providing the software tools, while Accenture chips in the manpower and management expertise. The business opportunity offered by the urge to integrate has persuaded Kalido, the Shell IT spin-off, and Accenture to collaborate on... [23 Jul 2001]

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