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Opinion article by Vukani Mnxgati, CEO of Accenture in Africa
Accenture has been adding value to the South African economy for nearly 50 years. Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We work at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for all our stakeholders.
South African companies benefit from our scale and depth expertise, providing them with access to unmatched experience and specialised capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises.
Strong values drive us at Accenture, and we regard the value that we add to the economy of South Africa not as a mere commercial exercise but sincerely take up our role as a contributing responsible corporate citizen that must also act as a catalyst for change as Africa’s digital accelerator.
All South Africans must be able to participate meaningfully in the mainstream economy and we are proud to do our bit to help realise this national objective by various empowering initiatives, which in turn again this year confirmed our BBBEE level 1 status. Transformation and diversity at Accenture is meaningful, and we make sure that every Accenture employee feels like they are part of Accenture and that their contribution to both our clients and our business matters.
We believe that to build a sustainable economy, the private sector must work together with government to maximise the potential of the country’s people and enterprises. Over our 50 years in business, we have realised that building a sustainable economy is critical to South Africa’s growth. Our vision is to add value to the South African vision by improving the way the nation works and how people live, and we see transformation as a key component to make this prosperous vision a reality.
At Accenture, we pride ourselves in the fact that we are in touch with the needs of the market and our clients. Responding to their needs, we have recently adopted changes in our growth model and global management. These changes are designed to help us to extend market leadership, drive significant value for clients and all stakeholders while continuing to deliver market-leading growth.
The changes to Accenture’s global growth model sees the company shift its market-leading capabilities into four services: Strategy & Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations and a shift from the traditional operating group model to manage our business through three geographic markets (North America, Europe and Growth Markets). Leadership changes and expanding our Global Management Committee to be more representative support these changes.
As global economies demand solutions for agile integration, the change will reflects Accenture’s goal to become a global leader and lead digital acceleration across industry sectors, regardless of geography.
We enable global integration, empowering organisations to leverage the power of digitisation and bringing in the New. Over two thirds of companies in South Africa are faced with a serious technology dilemma – how to unlock their technology’s trapped value while surviving the effects of its disruption. This is where Accenture comes in!
We help business to understand and unlock the potential of the digital and post-digital eras. We recently released the Innovation Maturity Index, an in-depth study on the opportunities that technology innovation presents in South African businesses, and more importantly, a 
measurement of their ability to turn these opportunities into value.
We encourage companies to ensure their businesses remain relevant in the future, skilfully balancing a focus on their core business and an ability to pursue new opportunities. Accenture helps its clients to pivot wisely to a new way of doing business requires not only the courage and skill, but also the right timing and direction of investments.
