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Our Technology Strategy & Advisory practice helps architect and realize exceptional business value from technology.

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Technology is everywhere—but value isn’t

With technology now critical to helping drive corporate strategy and ensuring its success, today’s CIO is fast becoming the new corporate “rock star,” as well as an advocate for change, corporate transformation and the realities of what new technologies can do. But technology investments don’t always achieve the expected benefits, and companies are finding that harnessing technology to fuel innovation is a major challenge.

Organizations therefore need a fundamentally different approach to building and managing technology and large-scale transformation—one better suited to the ever-changing reality of today’s business landscape.

That’s where we come in. Accenture’s Technology Strategy & Advisory practice helps organizations harness technology and innovation to shape their technology visions, execute their digital transformation journeys, and reinvent their businesses to create exceptional, sustainable value from their technology investments.

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How we can help

Our global team of tech strategists, enterprise architects and transformation experts help harness technology and innovation as a way to reinvent every business.

Cloud strategy & design

Now that you are living in the cloud, maximize your cloud investment and its benefits by learning to think and act differently. Learn more.

Intelligent operating model & innovation

Respond to changing market demands by being nimbler. Design and implement an operating model built for agility, resiliency and growth.

Resilient architecture

Make the most of modern architecture technologies and techniques to improve business continuity and reduce operational risk.

Tech value

Measure and maximize technology investments—achieving the transparency to define value, optimize costs and enable business transformation. Learn more.

Analytics & automation

Unlock the value of data, artificial intelligence, and automation to drive business value through real-time decision making.

Future tech

Transform your business by implementing innovative technologies and practices.

Tech transformation

Drive efficiency and improve technology ROI, while redirecting the majority of spending to innovation and propelling growth. Learn more.

Transformation office

Orchestrate complex transformations, from start to finish, with a relentless focus on vision, value, speed, talent and technology. Learn more.

Tech mergers & acquisitions

Shape, execute and accelerate transformational M&A deals, using disruptive technology to deliver speed, innovation and value. Learn more.

Six essential actions for new CIOs in their first 120 days

The chief information officer operates at the crossroads of technology and business disruption – the vital link between an organization’s tech investments and its pursuit of value.

It’s crucial for the CIO to set themselves up for success in their first 120 days. In this video, Technology Strategy and Advisory Managing Director Jenica McHugh discusses the six essential actions that CIOs should focus on. It’s an essential checklist for any tech leader, whether they are at the top of their game or just getting on the field. 

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Solve the value equation with technology value

Together with CIOs, we help companies to define the value from their tech investments, optimize costs and enable their enterprise reinvention.

  • Our latest research shows companies how they can give their business, technology and financial teams a shared understanding of how to set, measure and deliver value from technology.
  • It outlines how CIOs can collaborate more closely across the C-suite to bring a technology value lens to their operations and show the real business value of every tech investment.​
  • We've also explored five invaluable actions technology leaders can take now to optimize their costs and find the funds they need to drive innovation.
Technology Strategy & Advisory

5 actions, 1 framework and a better way to value

This is a singular moment for CIOs: here is how they can take advantage to unlock true business value across their enterprise.

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CIOs need new approaches for measuring, creating and communicating the value of their technology spending. By industrializing their approach, they can define enterprise value metrics and drive more transparency around technology spending. That transparency gives them the clarity to make informed decisions on when and where to reduce, redistribute and expand technology investment.

Many companies are using disciplines — such as Technology Business Management, FinOps, lean portfolio, cost optimization and more — in pockets of their business. Tech Value interlocks these disciplines and approaches to unlock greater value across the enterprise. It is bolstered with services from recent acquisitions and partners, such as Advocate.

Technology Cost and Productivity Reinvention (C&PR)

CIOs are caught between optimising costs and implementing technology-led change. Technology C&PR helps executives to control costs and reinvest savings into growth and transformation initiatives.

Technology Business Management (TBM)

Bolstered with the recent acquisition of Advocate, we help companies to implement TBM practices and solutions, to increase transparency and connect IT spend to business value.

Cloud FinOps

Companies need to get better business value from the cloud. We help engineering, finance, technology and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.

Tech Value Realization

We help organizations to identify the business benefits of technology investments and then measure and track the benefits they achieve.

Technology Expense Management

This managed service monitors enterprise technology spending and tracks trends with accountability for every device, vendor, contract, and invoice in an organization.

Lean Portfolio Management

We help technology leaders with the finance, budgeting, funding and business-case development aspects of Lean Portfolio Management.

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Managing Director – Technology Strategy & Advisory
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IT Strategy blog

Catch up on our latest thinking on technology topics from our tech strategists and innovation advisors. From cloud strategy and IT value realization to tech-enabled transformation, this is where ideas come to life.

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Cloud

Maximizing your cloud advantage

Accenture helps organizations leverage five practices to maximize their cloud investments and thrive in the Cloud Continuum.

Cloud

The race to the cloud

Companies are reaching the inflection point to long sought value but must first overcome some persistent barriers.

Strategy & Consulting

Total Enterprise Reinvention

See how "Reinventors" are setting a new performance frontier for their companies–and entire industries.

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Case studies

Software and Platforms

Cloud-first for the future

Fueling new growth for SUSE with a reimagined IT landscape in the cloud.

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Retail

Digital makeover at The Body Shop

Cloud-based IT lays foundation for growth.

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Cloud Insights

Del Monte’s fresh approach to IT

Del Monte Foods rethinks its IT infrastructure in a bid for operational agility and streamlined processes.

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Our ecosystem

We extend our technology and business capabilities through a powerful ecosystem of market leaders and innovators, from the largest platform companies to startups and niche players.

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Tech-minded, business-focused: get to know us

Meet several of our Technology Strategy & Advisory team members from around the world. There’s never been a better time than now for us to help you architect and realize exceptional business value from technology. Our people say it best so let's hear from them.

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Technology Strategy & Advisory: get to know us

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Our leaders

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Senior Managing Director – Technology Strategy & Advisory, UK & Ireland
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James Burrows

Managing Director – Lead Cloud Strategy & Advisory
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Purnima Pratap

Managing Director – Technology Strategy & Advisory, UK & Ireland
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Frequently asked questions

Also known as Information Technology (IT) consultancy, computer consultancy, and IT advisory, technology consulting plays a vital role in helping organizations use of technology to drive innovation and growth. Today, technology consultants assist organizations in using new technology across all parts of a business, which requires great agility and also makes their day-to-day role incredibly versatile.

Management consultants help organizations develop business strategies powered by insights from data and artificial intelligence that can be executed at scale, with speed and certainty. Technology consultants take a strategic look on how technology can help improve an organization, which includes architecting and realizing exceptional value from technology. Both help companies better connect with customers, improve resilience, and drive sustainable growth.

Technology is a critical component to a business’ success. With its rapid growth and expansion into almost every industry, it is now more important than ever for organizations to understand how to best leverage technology. Technology consulting helps organizations expand and grow, mitigate risk and improve important processes.