Interestingly this seems like Consulting outsourcing, and I guess it follows the model of Infosys Consulting, where front end consultants do a major part of the client interface and then send data over to the offshore consultants for analysis and possible suggestions. Thereby, saving clients fees for the onsite resources' time.''We are very focused on innovative talents management and recruitment in India, and we are on track to meet our global goal of having as many as 2,000 consultants in our centres across India by the end of our fiscal year next August,'' said company Group Chief Executive (Management Consulting & Integrated Markets) Mark Foster.
Accenture currently has a headcount of 15,000 people across the globe involved in management consulting and the India plans are a significant part of its strategy to scale up its workforce in the space by 5,000 people in the next three years.
''India has a significant number of business school graduates and experienced professionals who can fill a major need for consultants with strong analytical, operational, industry and strategic skills,'' said Accenture Managing Director (Management Consulting India) Sanjay Jain.
Dec 7, 2007
Accenture's Consulting focus for India
Accenture's byline is "Consulting. Technology. Outsourcing" after those famous Tiger Woods commercials.
So it was quite evident that the next phase of their India story would be consulting after their initial growth was driven by offshoring Technology and Outsourcing.
As this news item says:
Had blogged about a related story here.
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Interesting! I wonder why the goal to is to have 2,000 consultants versus something like saving X amount of money to our clients by the end of the year. Wouldn't the number of consultants follow automatically? It is like one of my earlier employers had a goal of acquiring a company within a year. I left that company soon after.
ReplyDeleteAccenture has 2 pools of consulting professionals.
ReplyDelete1 Pool (tier-1 b-school grads) specifically for consulting Indian Companies. This is Pure Management Consulting and they do very impressive work i.e. KF-Deccan Merger, IA-Air India Merger, Tata-Corus etc.
The 2nd pool that they are building has tier-2 b-school grads for offshore consulting.So, this work is completely different.
Interesting post. And agree with Jayant's note: Accenture is probably trying to leverage the pool of back-end consultants
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