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Global Delivery Network

See Accenture Global Delivery Network.

Global Sourcing
Our global sourcing approach leverages Accenture's global workforce in 50 countries and a global network of delivery centers to provide a full range of consulting, technology and outsourcing services to clients across virtually all industries.

Through global sourcing, we bring together the right mix of people, skills and capabilities to provide our clients with price-competitive and cost-effective solutions and services, with consistently high quality, reduced risk and enhanced speed to market. Our global network offers the flexibility of multiple facilities providing 24x7 coverage for the integrated delivery of services to clients. See also Accenture Global Delivery Network, outsourcing, multi-polar world.

Globalization
The declining significance of national borders, brought about by increased trade, the spread of information technology, cross-border financial flows and cultural transfers. Accenture maintains that globalization is moving into a new, more complex phase to create a multi-polar world.

Green IT
The environment is now at the top of the world agenda, and businesses and governments are under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon emissions. Accenture is playing a thought leadership role in developing tools and strategies to help CIOs make data centers and other elements of the IT infrastructure more energy efficient. In line with its drive to help clients achieve high performance, Accenture’s view is that becoming energy efficient is not just a matter of compliance but an opportunity to streamline the way the business itself operates. Find out more.

Growth Platform
Accenture growth platforms are the select types of business that we believe build on our strengths and offer significant opportunity to achieve scale and market leadership.

The Management Consulting growth platform spans a variety of functions and specializations. It is characterized by high-level, highly specialized work requiring intense interaction with client senior executives and typically commanding premium rates and premium margins. Our goal is to be the preeminent management consulting practice in the world, with a focus on deep, trust-based relationships, continuous market-leading innovation and end-to-end solutions.

The Technology growth platform includes all Accenture’s technology services to clients, including application and infrastructure outsourcing and systems integration and technology. These solutions are delivered primarily through an industrial model of global sourcing via our delivery centers. Our goal is to build on our heritage of technology and systems integration leadership to gain an even greater share of this competitive and growing market space.

The Business Process Outsourcing growth platform focuses on the multiple ways that Accenture can take contractual responsibility for day-to-day operations of a client—running and managing applications, business processes and/or technology infrastructure—over a long-term contract, typically between three and 10 years. Our goal is to become the leading, differentiated provider of comprehensive outsourcing services.