Accenture Expands Strategy Capabilities in Life Sciences with the Acquisition of Bionest
NEW YORK; Feb. 2, 2023 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Bionest, a strategy and consulting firm dedicated to addressing complex strategic decisions for leading biopharma organizations across innovative areas of science including precision medicine and diagnostics, oncology, cell & gene therapy (CGT), and rare diseases.
February 02, 2023
Accenture Identifies Emerging Group of Industry Leaders Adopting 'Total Enterprise Reinvention' as a Strategy to Reach New Performance Frontier
NEW YORK; Jan. 17, 2023 – New research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) finds that to grow and lead in today’s volatile environment, a small group of companies are adopting a deliberate, continuous strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention for every part of their business with new technologies and new ways of working.
January 17, 2023
Alarmed by Speed and Scale of Disruption, CEOs Embrace Sustainability to Build Long-Term Resilience, According to UN Global Compact and Accenture
NEW YORK; Jan. 12, 2023 – CEOs are facing an enormously challenging global context, with the vast majority (93%) experiencing 10 or more simultaneous challenges to their businesses and 87% warning that current levels of disruption will limit delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finds the largest CEO study on sustainability ever conducted by the UN Global Compact and Accenture (NYSE: ACN). While CEOs are increasingly concerned about these headwinds, nearly all (98%) agree that sustainability is core to their role, a sentiment that has grown 15 percentage points over the last 10 years of the study.
January 12, 2023
Accenture Acquires Leadership Firm YSC Consulting to Enhance C-Suite and Board Transformations
LONDON; Aug. 9, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired YSC Consulting, a CEO advisory and leadership consultancy that helps organizations align leadership strategies with their business goals to achieve transformational change. The acquisition strengthens Accenture’s capabilities to advise the CEO, C-Suite, and Board with solutions to boost performance and build leadership teams for the future. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
August 09, 2022
Most Companies Struggling to be Relevant to Their Customers, Accenture Report Finds
NEW YORK; July 26, 2022 – The vast majority (88%) of executives1 believe that customers and employees are changing faster than they can change their businesses, which is leading to a crisis of relevance, according to a new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN).
July 26, 2022
Accenture Invests in pulsESG™ to Advance ESG and Sustainability Measurement, Decision Making and Reporting for Companies
NEW YORK; July 25, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in pulsESG, Inc., a public benefit corporation dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) footprint. Backed by $10 million in earlier seed funding from other leading impact-driven investors, pulsESG is the latest company to join Accenture Ventures’ Project Spotlight, an engagement and early investment program that connects emerging technology software startups with the Global 2000 to fill strategic innovation gaps.
July 25, 2022
Accenture to Acquire Eclipse Automation to Help Clients Build Factories of the Future
NEW YORK and TORONTO; July 21, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Eclipse Automation, a provider of customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The acquisition will allow Accenture to offer automated production lines that leverage the cloud, data and artificial intelligence (AI), making factories and plants smarter and thus, more productive, sustainable and safe. Financial terms were not disclosed.
July 21, 2022
C-Suite Leaders Taking Entirely New Approach to Costs, According to Accenture
NEW YORK; July 13, 2022 – More than three-quarters of companies (76%) cut costs to survive during the pandemic; now 90% of C-suite executives say they must take a whole new approach to costs in order to transform their businesses to respond to ongoing disruption while also uncovering new growth and value, according to a new report from Accenture.
July 13, 2022
Accenture Named No. 1 in Source Global Research’s Latest Global Thought Leadership Ranking
LONDON; June 6, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced today it was ranked number one by professional services industry data provider Source Global Research for quality of thought leadership among leading consultancy and technology firms around the globe for the second half of 2021.
June 06, 2022
Accenture Completes Acquisition of Greenfish
BRUSSELS; June 2, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed its acquisition of Greenfish, an independent engineering and advisory company specializing in sustainability consultancy services. Accenture had announced its intent to acquire Greenfish on April 20, 2022. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
June 02, 2022