Swot Analysis On Accenture

Organization Profile: Accenture Accenture is an organization that has been in the market for 16 years, which has helped the company to grow and learn from experiences. All these new lessons took where the company is standing today; however, it is unpredictable, how the external and internal forces can affect the effectiveness of its strategy. In order to create an effective, reliable and accurate strategic plan, it is important to identify what the company have to offer based on its resources, assets, values and success to get stronger and overcome future challenges. This paper provides a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis on Accenture’s IT department.
SWOT Analysis The SWOT analysis is an assessment of the

Accenture has an effective IT structure that allows knowledge to flow freely across different locations (Jeffery, M., 2010, p. 2).
2. The company has been in the market for 16 years, and has an extensive experience in IT projects.
3. Accenture uses one-platform approach, which provides the organization with many benefits such as generation of economies of scale and reduced total cost of ownership of IT infrastructure (Jeffery, M., 2010, p. 5). It is global, scalable, and secure and it is focused on providing access anywhere at anytime, improving internal and external customer satisfaction.
4. Accenture chose Microsoft as a partner, which today it is still considered one of the world’s most valuable companies with financial stability, allowing Accenture to have access to one of the best technology advances available in the market and a safer future.
5. Depending on the business requirements, the one-platform allows the organization to deal with one vendor or a limited number of entities, which can make it qualify for discounts in licensing fee and maintenance, reduce IT support that requires man power, reduce training costs and improve global productivity (Jeffery, M., 2010, p.

Outsourcing can save money to the company, but to make it even more effective, the company needs to understand and learn from each culture where it operates. The management must be familiar with the methods in each culture work at its best. The company can offer seminars to staff, creating culture awareness to understand how cultures alter business relationships.
4. For high-cost IT projects, it is important to focuse on the areas of the company that needs more work. According to Pearlson (2012), “Financial measures may be the language of stockholders, but managers understand that they can be misleading if used as the sole means of making management decisions” (p. 218). So the company can use additional IT metrics to monitor and analyze IT investment such as scorecards, end-user surveys, response time and logs of communication up/down time.
5. Consult with Microsoft for an IT tools that could be used to ensure remote employees stay connected or productive. It could contain snap random screenshots, send employers a graphical productivity report of each employee, record keyboard and mouse movements or just work as a reporting system that has its own productivity measurement (Boris, Cynthia,