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Monitor vs Accenture vs Marakon |
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Re: Acc is for real |
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03/22/2001 |
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It's interesting hat 2 big time players at McK jumped to Accenture M & A in the last couple of monthes. It shows that Acccenture is for real and stepping up in all parts of its business.
We sell "change." Strat is just one part of it, but we are improving in this area more and more each day.
Don't downplay Accenture thought because we try to implement that thought afterwards - unlike the "pure" strat folks that just make pretty ppt decks and leave. They all are trying to implement now (hiring techies) -- e.g. BTO at Mck-- , but can't get the job done.
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"It's interesting that 2 big time players at McK jumped to Accenture M & A in the last couple of monthes. It shows that Acccenture is for real and stepping up in all parts of its business"
Yes, I agree. I found the following comment on another thread on Vault and thought I'd cut-and-paste it here. (Apologies to the original author.)
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Some people don't get it. McKinsey does. Not only do they consider us a challenger, they have adopted some elements of our footprint - look at their "business technology" group and accelerators. And we have adopted approaches of theirs, since many of the senior partners in Accenture strat were originally recruited away from McKinsey years ago.
In an interview with McKinsey, before I decided to join Accenture instead, one of their partners mentioned some client situations in which he had worked with other firms (we already had worked for the same client VP when I was with my previous firm and were comparing notes). I asked him if McKinsey often worked alongside other firms, and he said they would work with pretty much anybody other than Accenture, which was too much of a potential challenger.
I thought that was a pretty good "plus" in Accenture's favor.
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