Case Analysis-Strategic It Transformation at Accenture

Case analysis-Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture Accenture was separated from its parent alliance and rebranded as a new organization. They face a challenge of building a new IT alkali to support their business. Beca economic consumption the new Accentures organization structure is different from the Anderson Consulting, the Andersons IT is deficient in some(prenominal) ways. Based on the deficient aspects I have some own recommendations and then I bequeath analyse what Accenture did to deal with the situation. First of all, the Andersons IT system did not interconnect readily each other.I give notice that in Accenture, they can build up a standard rules, and all the offices should fol small-scale such rules and use the standard schooling system to communicate each other. As we learned before, standardization is very main(prenominal) for an organization. Its a good way to improve the efficiency of internal communication. excessively, a standard information system is eas y to manage the race with customers or partners. It can enhance the relationship and improve the customers satisfaction. The fleck and third problem also can be solved by standardization.So choose a decline platform to standardize data and exchange passage is crucial for Accenture. As a new brand, Accenture should view their strategic context carefully before they making the decision. And clarify the enterprises view of IT infrastructure. In this case they realized that they should run IT not a cost center but as a business within business. When they face three different types of platforms, they choose the single-vendor approach to minimize the cost of IT. Also they choose Microsoft and HP as their software and hardware suppliers. Its a brilliant decision because these twain companies have great reputation in such industry.Its a valuable and stable relationship for Accenture to cooperate with Microsoft and HP. It can improve the efficiency both in software and hardware aspects . In the case, I notice that the Andersons information system is too complex and it cost too much on storage data. So its inefficient in data exchange and communication. Accenture should try to simplify the process and try to control the cost. Choosing the single-vendor approach can save the cost of IT. Also, they outsource their data storage service. To do so, I have some recommendations for Accenture to improve the information system management.They should put more attention on the relationship management mingled with Accenture and outsourcing companies to make certain(p) the efficient communication between each other. In the information era, the communication is very important. They can provide their partners the part of Accenture IT platform , to they can communicate internally. onsidering Accenture as a B2B company, I suggest that focus on converting conventional interactions to IT-enable data exchange to make sure their clients can get the data timely and accurately. The glob alization and becoming a public company is a new challenge for Accenture.Globalization is a great advantage of outsourcing, Accenture can outsource some service to low labor cost countries. It can reduce the IT cost. As I said before, how to manage the relationship between different suppliers and outsourcing companies is important for Accenture. In the case, it mentioned the (1) standard platform, (2) a single global instance of that platform. It tally strong with my analysis before. In sum, Accenture has a successful IT transformation, and for its further growth I have given several(prenominal) suggestions according to the articles this week.