Lorem ipsum Accelerate Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit Everything E&I all in one place Jan 2023 05 06 Randstad’s renewal The interoperability explosion Contents 03 Editorial 04 The E&I Hotlist 05 The Client View 06 Value Untangled 11 A note from Emma McGuigan. All the latest news, wins and client stories you need to know. We learn what it takes to unify Randstad, a conglomerate of 39 global companies undergoing a massive transformation. Our latest research reveals how companies with high interoperability grow revenue up to 6x faster than peers with low interoperability. E&I Insights This month we learn why Composable Technology is vital to our clients, and how Accenture is accelerating adoption of this new approach. 13 Inspiring Minds 16 Power of Partnerships Data & AI Lead for Cloud First, Lan Guan, explains why unlocking the power of data and AI is a differentiator for clients – and Accenture We explore the latest from our hardworking business groups. Copyright © 2022 Accenture. All rights reserved. | 02 A note from Emma Welcome to CY2023! In E&I we have started the new year off with lots of energy. Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed a shift in the ways our clients buy technology. They no longer feel tied to one provider, but instead seek out the best, most relevant solutions from across a variety of platform providers and applications. We’ve responded by helping clients integrate those disparate technologies, bolstering their digital core. We wanted to find out what’s behind these purchasing behaviors, so we launched our first E&I iconic research, Value Untangled. We found that even more of Accenture’s clients plan to work with multiple tech providers in the future, and they are in urgent need of our help integrating those solutions. In fact, if they don’t ensure their technology stack is fully interoperable, they run the risk of losing out. Companies with high interoperability grew revenue 6X faster than their peers with low interoperability. Interoperability is key to unlocking the value of technology investments and growing revenue. Read on to find out more about Value Untangled (page 6), and the Composable Tech Studio (pages 11-12) we’ve launched to accelerate our work helping clients tap into value. Get in touch with the studio lead Raghavan Iyer today to find out how you can help! Emma McGuigan Lead – Enterprise & Industry Technologies, Global Learn more at E&I in the News | 03 The E&I Hotlist News Industry specializations soar Accenture’s combined technology and industry focus is what sets us apart in the market, meaning we are always ready to put the client first and provide expert guidance tailored to their unique business situation. That’s why it’s essential you keep on top of your technology and industry knowledge. Whether it’s in the Life Sciences or Banking industry, find out how to advance your industry knowledge and take your career to the next level. Explore more: Unlocking future value for SCG with myWizard Our Celosphere 2022 highlights Read more Wins Banking in the cloud Accenture is harnessing Allgemeines Rechenzentrum GmbH (ARZ) assets to create Tigital, a new company that will modernize and build a new European Banking Platform in Austria. Its banking platform-as-a-service will leverage Microsoft, IBM and SAP technologies to address banking issues including managing regulatory changes, fast delivery of new products/services, improving service quality and accessing best of breed innovation. Explore more: SAP creates agility for LyondellBasell Salesforce Cloud transforms AMGROS I/S Read more Client Stories Reimagined fundraising Accenture helped the National Multiple Sclerosis Society reimagine its biggest fundraising event, Bike MS, for a socially distanced world. Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Sales Cloud formed the digital core of a composable solution integrated with cycling apps Strava and Zwift. Thanks to personalized content, efficient Salesforce-enabled fundraising methods and multiplatform, virtual engagement with new audiences, the Society raised $36 million. Explore more: Oracle-powered finance at Pediatrix Tokio Marine Kiln adopts Workday Read more | 04 Reinventing Randstad One client’s journey to global unity “Do not mess it up,” warns Martin de Weerdt, Global CIO of human resources consulting firm Randstad. “We’ll mess it up a bit—but if we don't mess it up too much, we'll all be fine.” The straight-talking CIO is referring to the clientconsultant relationship—in particular, Accenture’s multi-year project helping Randstad transform with Salesforce. The success of that project, argues Martin, is incumbent on team commitment, trust—facilitated by the right kind of contract—and doing the right thing, “because then the outcome is good for everyone.” Randstad is a conglomerate of 39 global companies. A market leader in France, Holland, Spain and Italy, there is still ample room for growth. “We believe we’re the largest company of this kind, and we aim to become a global company to compete in the market.” Key to that is Randstad’s ongoing collaboration with Accenture to create a single platform for its finance and HR teams, as well as talent and clients, so it can operate as one integrated organization. “We want to be able to deliver a beautiful app once, not 39 times across each company,” says Martin. “The transformation will help us harness the vast company, optimize our service delivery globally, and reduce IT costs. “ The transformation will take three to four years, with some finance services moving to a centralized, shared service center. Currently, its 39 organizations are using a combination of SAP, spreadsheets, Fusion, Dynamics and more. The transformation will also better serve talent that require a more mobile and virtual way of doing business. “If we want to compete in the digital staffing business, which is short-term, mobile and virtual, we have to be able to play on a global level so we can easily use talent from Bulgaria to work for clients in Holland, and vice versa.” Randstad has a lot riding on the transformation. As such, trust is at the heart of the project’s success. And that begins with the contract. “We have done a very light tender because we want a party that will go with us on this journey. The contract must enable flexibility, transparency, and a win for everybody. It must have a certain fixed fee, but also stage gates with bonuses to ensure everybody does the right thing.” Martin points out that while Accenture is often very focused on KPIs, Randstad is more focused on doing the right thing. “We're a company that will make it right if we’re jointly successful. That’s where trust comes in.” With the right contract and mutual trust in place, what else does Randstad expect from its partner? “Like many IT implementations, this is a truly transformational journey, and we'll find obstacles along the way. We need Accenture to tell us when the way we do things doesn’t make sense, and how to simplify to reduce costs. That comes down to trust, but also the composition of the team and their skills. Last but not least, we want a willingness to fight early! If I make a wrong move, I expect you to come kicking at my door. That's Accenture’s job.” | 05 E&I is accelerating radical growth through interoperability In an unpredictable world, the ability to quickly adapt to new circumstances, adopt new technologies and otherwise remain nimble allows companies to thrive. With the integration of these technologies, people and processes, they can untangle value from chaos and accelerate growth. To learn more about the value of agility, Accenture surveyed 4,000+ C-suite respondents from mid- to large companies to find out what it takes to remain agile in an unpredictable world. They found that in the last two years alone, one in two companies had to transform multiple parts of their business at the same time or execute a single large transformation much faster than ever before. Companies with the agility to perform these kinds of compressed transformations had one thing in common: high interoperability. “To compress transformation from years to months, or even days, everything must be integrated and interoperable,” says Emma McGuigan, co-author of our Value Untangled Inspiring Minds Value Untangled report. “One in three companies have prioritized this level of agility and are untangling value to race past their competitors in revenue growth, efficiency and resiliency by using interoperability to spark total enterprise reinvention.” When enterprise applications can easily interact with each other and exchange data, it enables a seamless user experience and creates a single source of truth, leading to better decision making, human connections and insight generation. Companies with high interoperability are 11% more likely to sustain compressed transformations because they can pivot quickly and take advantage of new opportunities. They can grow revenue up to 6x faster than their peers with low interoperability, unlocking up to 5% in annual revenue growth. As an example, if two similar companies start with $10 billion in revenue today, the company with high interoperability would stand to make $8 billion more than the company with low interoperability over the next five years. | 06 Companies with high interoperability—especially those that manufacture, source or sell physical goods—also outpace companies with low/no interoperability in profitability, resiliency and other value-creation measures critical to business. For example, we found that companies with high interoperability were: • More efficient: 12% better at improving their supply chain and operations • More successful at CX: 16% better at reinventing customer experience • More productive: 12% more likely to be successful when improving employee productivity is a priority • More sustainable: 4% more likely to be successful at embracing sustainable business practices CXOs need to understand that integrated enterprise applications can enable businesses to move from siloed technology and fragmented data to connected solutions, agility and resiliency. “The time is now to accelerate compressed transformation and benefit from driving value with an interoperable digital core,” says Enterprise & Industry Technologies Europe Lead, Jan van den Bremen, co-author of the Value Untangled report. Integration enables true business transformation, creating additional value in meeting customer demands, developing new revenue streams, and competing in the market—but requires new methods of thinking and working that E&I can help clients with. “E&I brings together the core ERP capabilities with connected services that allow our customers to run a new digital core,” says van den Bremen. But how does interoperability create such far-reaching value? At its core, interoperability connects technology, people and processes. It does so by creating a common language across critical applications and systems, enabling a deeper understanding of data without the cost and effort of building a data lake. When data silos are removed, functional silos can begin to collaborate. “The time is now to accelerate compressed transformation and benefit from driving value from a new digital core enabled by interoperability” Jan van den Bremen Lead—E&I, Europe | 07 This inherent synergy reduces duplicative efforts, reveals hidden bottlenecks and builds better human connections, improving the following value drivers: 1. Transparency: Interoperability unites data silos, allowing for greater data visibility throughout the enterprise and better decision making. Deploying process mining tools on interoperable business applications enables enterprises to improve visibility across all business processes. 2. Agility: Interoperability better manages dependencies, providing the agility to transform multiple business functions fast and at the same time. It enables the right IT infrastructure needed for successful transformations by 13%. 3. Productivity: Interoperability eliminates the chance that multiple people work on the same task and streamlines data sharing. It also reduces the time spent toggling between applications, something that can account for nearly two hours of every employee’s workday. For a company that has 10,000 employees, this amounts to a productivity gain of almost 15,000 hours. 4. Experience: Interoperability enables holistic, real-time access to customer data stored across systems, which allows a laser focus on customer needs. Highly interoperable companies are 15% more likely to be able to improve customer experience when it’s a priority. 5. Scalability: Interoperability creates incontext connections, ensuring that cuttingedge innovation reaches across the business faster—which increases the ROI by 7%. Interoperability won’t break the bank. Our research shows that leading companies are able to achieve high interoperability with just 2-4% higher IT and functional budgets directed at applications, while handling as many (if not more) diverse applications within their IT stack. Interoperability is now in reach The concept of interoperability isn’t new, but the ability to manifest it is. This is due to three technology changes that make it easier for organizations to configure and reconfigure applications as needed around their digital core: 1. Ubiquity of cloud: Many organizations have already moved to the cloud, giving them a common data layer that provides a single source of truth. 2. Improved application design: Modern applications are designed to share data. They have simplified interfaces and support additional capabilities. 3. Low-cost applications: The large number of specialized applications on the market has reduced the cost. Our research finds that only one in three companies is capitalizing on these technological advances to untangle the value trapped within their organization. These companies are racing past their competitors because they make high interoperability central to their overall business and technology strategy. | 08 How to improve interoperability and thrive in uncertainty Our research uncovered the best practices and common pitfalls C-suite respondents faced on their way to high interoperability, as well as what enabled them to compress their transformation. Here’s what we learned. 1. Leverage the Cloud Companies that successfully improve their interoperability start by moving existing applications to the cloud and investing in new, cloud-based enterprise applications (SaaS). They use the cloud to connect data and experiences across applications, creating one version of truth. Nearly 72% of companies with high/medium interoperability have adopted public cloud and already migrated 30% of their data and workloads. Only 60% of low/no interoperability companies have adopted public cloud, a 12% lag. Companies with high interoperability use the cloud to change the way they work and standardize and simplify processes—enabling real-time insights and creating strategic agility. 2. Utilize composable tech Composable tech requires shifting from a technology architecture of static, standalone parts to one of composable pieces. This involves using prebuilt, interoperable solutions to swap and plug-and-play smaller application components, creating new applications without wider disruption. These solutions are often curated for specific industries and functions and future proof organizations so they have the dexterity to quickly adopt the technologies of tomorrow. With data flowing between connected applications, companies can easily share information with the entire organization so everyone is on the same page, creating a common purpose and driving better decisions. 3. Focus on meaningful collaboration Any transformation that doesn’t include people is bound to fail. Meaningful collaboration is enabled by interoperability and happens when functions and people work together seamlessly towards a common goal. They can use real-time data, analytics and AI, together with new ways of working, to unlock the value of technology, empower people and achieve better outcomes. Companies with high interoperability have an unwavering focus on improving human connections with trust and skills. They continuously invest in pervasive training, empowering IT and non-IT decision makers to make sound application choices. They also build data-sharing mindsets to prevent data hoarding. If two similar companies start with $10 billion in revenue today, the company with high interoperability would stand to make $8 billion more over five years Copyright © 2022 Accenture. All rights reserved. | 09 Interoperability: Value Untangled Today’s companies must be able to anticipate and respond to uncertainty—supply shocks, economic disruptions, competitive threats or new growth opportunities—as it happens, not when the opportunity has passed. The key to achieving this is to compress transformations from years to months or days, and this is only possible when everything is integrated and interoperable. Interoperability is a catalyst for Total Enterprise Reinvention, enabling businesses to move from siloed technology and fragmented data to connected solutions, agility and resiliency, unlocking additional value in meeting customer demands, developing new revenue streams, and competing in the market. Read Value Untangled Qantas flies above the turbulence Australia’s flagship airline is one of the few that thrived despite the pandemic. The global airline sector saw more than $174 billion in losses by the end of 2021, yet Qantas became more financially secure and witnessed a 120% stock price surge. How? The airline quickly pivoted to domestic travel when Australia shut its borders in March 2020, orchestrating its biggest network expansion in a decade by adding 45 domestic routes. When a competitor significantly scaled back operations, Qantas won over many of its frequent fliers—expanding its own market share to 74%. This compressed transformation was possible due to Qantas’s three-year recovery plan. Launched in 2019, it laid out targeted investments in digital and data capabilities centered on creating a better customer experience through personalization, driving new operational efficiencies and broadening the group's earnings base beyond the core aviation business. It used SAP Qualtrics to elevate its customer and employee experiences and partnered with Workday to bring its enterprise applications into the cloud. It also focused on integration and interoperability, leading to a 10X increase in the number of APIs and 5X growth in the volume of communication that flows through those APIs—at half its legacy operating costs. “One in three companies have prioritized this level of agility and are untangling value to race past their competitors” Emma McGuigan, Lead—E&I, Global | 10 E&I Insights Composing for agility How to become integrated and agile Composable technology is the key to helping our clients succeed in an era of compressed transformation. There are three key steps to unlocking the value of technology investments faster using composable technology: Compressed transformations, aimed at driving resilience, innovation and differentiated outcomes, rely on high levels of interoperability across IT systems and applications. Organizations operate 1,048 applications on average today, and 81% expect to add to that number as they move toward multi-cloud capabilities. Composable technology unlocks the value of those applications by ensuring they work together to drive outcomes across the business, rather than in functional siloes. It requires a fundamental shift—from creating a technology architecture composed of static, monolithic and standalone parts to creating one made up of composable pieces. By connecting platforms and applications, running them in the cloud, and adding an advanced data integration layer, businesses are able to decipher the data required to make better, faster decisions. 1. Build on the digital core Companies are most agile when their applications are run in the cloud and built on a digital core—the organization’s backbone. The digital core stores the operational platforms that keep the business running. It underpins total enterprise reinvention by providing agility, flexibility, easy interoperability and resilience. As an example, we are helping Vodafone EVO evolve its digital core by composing SAP S/4HANA and other SAP on-premise solutions with software-as-a-service (SaaS) flexibility and a Google Cloud model. The transformation will help improve business agility and create a modern, scalable and future-ready ERP system. Composable tech compresses transformation time by leveraging proven, repeatable solutions that can be configured and reconfigured at speed to address changing business needs— and set the stage for rapid value realization. That includes accelerating the path to financial value, and to greater innovation, reinvented experiences and strategic outcomes. For example, 44 percent of the organizations we surveyed reported that interoperability will significantly change how they report and track environmental impact over the next three-tofive years. | 11 2. Create one enterprise data model An underlying enterprise data architecture paired with structured data helps businesses keep pace amid rapid change. A digital integration hub can provide the integration and data management services needed to make sure data and applications work together seamlessly. As an example, we helped Mars combine on-site and cloud technologies to create a digital factory foundation. By connecting internet of things (IoT) sensors into the digital factory foundation we enabled real time monitoring, while a digital twin lets users test possible actions without disrupting operations. 3. Accelerate with proven, repeatable solutions To be truly agile and drive real-time reinvention, our clients can harness pre-integrated, preconfigured solutions that plug into their core operations at speed. These solutions are curated for specific industries and functions, letting organizations easily plug the technologies of tomorrow into today’s business. For example, we preconfigured a smart fleet solution using the Microsoft Azure Asset IoT Hub to integrate realtime equipment data from IoT sensors and SAP master and transactional data This provided technicians with a single, interactive map of all their equipment. By combining repeatable solutions, we helped reduce production downtime and inventory shortages, helping to protect bottom-line revenue. Accelerating adoption We have created a first-of-its-kind Composable Tech Studio that brings composable tech to life for our clients at the pace of business change. The studio, co-located in the Accenture Innovation Hub in Bangalore and led by Raghavan Iyer, helps clients across the globe build, configure and deploy composable solutions faster by leveraging virtual capabilities. Clients will have access to technology integration accelerators, strategy and industry transformation blueprints, as well as the Accenture Smart Enterprise Data Hub, which provides core data models, analytics accelerators and emerging industry data. Our Composable Tech Studio will transform the way clients use data across their enterprise, improving agility and speed to market. Read the POV | 12 Inspiring Minds Leading with AI and data Unlocking the power of data and AI is a differentiator for our clients—and Accenture AI is a gamechanger. At a time when our clients are faced with an urgent need to transform at speed while also keeping costs under control, AI has the potential to help businesses unlock new revenue, enable compressed transformations and save time and money. The time is now for technology, and the time is now for AI and data. “The current turbulence in the macro economy has accentuated the urgency for enterprises to realize the lower costs and flexibility that cloud computing promises,” says Data & AI Lead for Cloud First, Lan Guan. “Many countries are experiencing a labor shortage crisis, as well as rising inflation. And digital technology, data, AI and automation can truly become deflationary forces in an inflationary economy.” This is particularly true of the retail industry. The acceleration of digitization has changed the way people consume and interact with products, leading to a world of ‘ultrapersonalization’. Consumers expect goods and services to be tailored to their needs, and instantly available. Given the labor shortages and cost cutting measures many countries are facing, it’s clear companies cannot meet those demands for ultra-personalization without leaning on technology. “AI has indulged the consumer demand for getting what they want, when they want it,” says Lan. “Our clients in the fashion industry used to come out with just a few collections every year. Now, they have fully and rapidly adapted to the new normal by leveraging AI and machine learning.” | 13 Technology is enabling retailers to collect and mine real time consumer preferences and consumer feedback from across mobile sites and social media platforms. Their designers translate that data into consumer-led product design ideas, then send those ideas to micro studios within a matter of hours to begin production and experimentation. “This all comes together superfast and ensures the company is highly responsive to what’s hot in the market,” says Lan. With this approach, companies can deliver a continuous rollout of fresh designs throughout the year, aligned to consumer preferences. The results speak volumes. “In one case of ultra-personalization, a client’s yearly revenue grew by 25% and it became a wellknown fashion brand within just two years.” At Enterprise & Industry Technologies, we approach total enterprise reinventions like the one ongoing in retail, by creating interoperable, repeatable processes that plug into a client’s digital core. Accenture’s Value Untangled research (page 6) points to the fact that compressed transformations are reliant on interoperability, and that companies with interconnected architecture see a 5% increase in revenue. For a company with $10 billion in revenue today, that equates to $8 billion more over five years. With data flowing between connected applications, companies can easily share information with the entire organization so everyone is on the same page, creating a common purpose and driving better decisions. It’s therefore essential that when we talk to clients about their transformation, data is at the heart of all those conversations. “Incorporating data and AI is what makes the digital core a nexus of the compressed transformation, giving our clients’ transformations a true competitive advantage,” says Lan. “We need to embed data and AI into everything we do and make it truly prevalent and pervasive across every process and every workflow that our client has. It’s important for us to work with the clients to bring forward data and AI capabilities at scale and with speed.” Once clients have the interoperability to enable a plug and play approach to transformation, there are endless emerging AI solutions they can harness to reinvent their enterprises, from AI generated content to reinforcement learning and natural language understanding. But to unlock more value for Accenture, E&I needs to focus not just on continuous innovation but industry relevance. Success relies on applying the right data and AI innovations, to the right company, at the right time, in ways that solve their unique business challenges. Conventional companies working in traditional industries pose the greatest opportunities for reinvention. “These companies are deeply rooted in ERP technologies from the likes of SAP, Oracle and Salesforce, but they are not yet on the cloud or fully AI enabled,” says Lan. “There are a lot of opportunities there, specifically when it comes to harnessing the power of data and AI in traditional industries such as automotive or manufacturing.” "We need to embed data and AI into everything we do and make it truly prevalent and pervasive" Lan Guan, Lead—Data &AI, Cloud First | 14 Post-pandemic, companies in traditional industries are already going through total enterprise reinventions, leaning more and more on technology such as robotics to stay ahead. “They are stepping away from the friction of their legacy IT infrastructure and embracing digital technology and artificial intelligence to transform the shop floor in manufacturing environments.” We know our clients need compressed transformations, and that interoperability holds the key. We know that our clients need to innovate and remain agile to stay ahead, and that data and AI provide the key to that. But how can we get our clients onboard with change— particularly those in the more traditional industries where Lan sees the greatest collaboration opportunities? Data-sharing done right Brands, advertisers, television networks and other players in the media and entertainment industries can utilize secure data in the cloud to share audience data responsibly. For example, a retail brand and television studio came together in the cloud via their ecosystem partners, to bring common customer data together without sharing private information. The companies identified millions of common customers from two completely different industries, opening up new opportunities for better targeting, monetization and customer experiences. Making data and AI ubiquitous 1. Data is a company’s backbone Clients must see robust data architecture in the cloud as the solid foundation for data-sharing. Built across different parts of the cloud continuum, it will enable clients to share data with confidence. 2. Treat data as a product Many clients still believe they should keep data in one place and are reluctant to give employees unfettered access to it. They need to start treating their employees as customers of data and provide them with the tools to automatically access it, extract value and improve daily decision making. Treating data as a product means ensuring it is discoverable, reusable, understandable and trustworthy—this is key to increasing adoption and changing staff attitudes to data. 3. Get comfortable with decentralized data Centralizing data in one place is a shortcut to creating a single version of the truth—but it does not provide resilience, agility and the ability to rapidly change in response to consumers and markets. Decentralized, federated data architecture, with good metadata governance and network management is key to clients gaining trust in data and data sharing. 4. Change company culture Lan provides insights below on how to help clients embark on data and AI-led transformations to unlock massive growth and turbocharge reinvention. Clients are often concerned that they don't have the right operating model, or enough data engineers to harness the power of modern data architecture. They might also be under the impression that if they keep all their data in one place, it’s safer. We need to help clients make the cultural shift to recognize that technology has advanced and can now support secure datasharing. Clients are looking to us to support that shift through data literacy, machine learning or artificial intelligence courses so that their staff feel confident in their new responsibilities and ready to share data in the cloud. | 15 Power of Partnerships Nick Law featured on Adobe-LBB series Accenture Song’s global lead for design and creative technology, Nick Law, was interviewed by LBB’s Addison Capper as part of the ‘5 minutes with…’ series, in association with Adobe. Law discussed the current surge in AI-generated art, design and systems thinking, why technology needs creative minds to push it forward and the ‘fear of the new’ in a fragmented industry. Unlocking the content supply chain Southern Glazer’s AEM evolution Read more Partnerships power sustainability goals EP&S Sustainability is set to be ubiquitous across the entire value chain of every enterprise, with an Accenture addressable market of ~$83 billion by 2025. The Accenture Sustainability Value Promise already expects that we embed sustainability into everything we do, and with everyone we work with, and that is exactly what Partner Innovation is doing with our technology partners. Infusing sustainability across Ecosystem, Partnerships & Sales is fundamental to our future success. Rise in cloud sales 360-degree cloud value Read more Reinventing the patient journey for healthcare clients We’ve teamed with Oracle to help healthcare organizations transform their business functions and technologies throughout the ecosystem. Oracle Industry Cloud helps ensure patients have a personalized experience and improves outcomes, while our integrated enterprise platform helps predict demand and increase efficiencies for healthcare providers. We also teamed with Oracle to invest in a solution offering secure, trusted, sovereign cloud environments for storing and processing critical health data. 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