Accenture CIO Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett, joined by Group Chief Executive-Technology and CTO of Accenture, Paul Daugherty, talk about his new book Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping our Future. It explores how emerging, human-centric technologies are helping businesses drive innovation, support the human workforce and unlock opportunities.
In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett, joined by Group Chief Executive-Technology and CTO of Accenture, Paul Daugherty, talk about his new book Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping our Future. It explores how emerging, human-centric technologies are helping businesses drive innovation, support the human workforce and unlock opportunities.
In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett, joined by Chief Strategy Officer Bhaskar Ghosh, talk about his new book The Automation Advantage, which provides an in-depth look at how intelligent automation has become one of the most powerful means of driving performance and value across global organizations.
In this episode, Accenture's Merim Becirovic, Managing Director - Global IT, Enterprise Architecture and Beyond 2025 Enterprise Strategy Lead Steve Courtney talk about our vision and strategy for how we look at Enterprise IT at Accenture, focusing on security, cloud, platforms, data and more.
In the latest episode in our CIO 24/7 Podcast series, host Jason Warnke speaks with Bryan Asmus and Andrea Plamondon about what Accenture is doing to support our digital workers as they strive to balance work and the rest of their truly human lives.
This podcast episode features Accenture CIO Penelope Prett, joined by Accenture guests Allison Horn, Global Head of Talent, and Jason Warnke, Digital Experiences Lead, talking about how virtual reality fits into the digital experience. Hear how Accenture is bringing virtual reality to the enterprise, providing our people with onboarding, learning and collaboration experiences. More info: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/about/going-beyond-extended-reality
In this episode, Jen McHale-Bryar, Managing Director - Global IT, Strategic Programs & Operations dig into cloud security with two of our own experts Don Galzarano, Managing Director - Global IT, Enterprise Architecture and Simon Gooch, Managing Director - Global IT, Cyber Security and Digital Identity Lead.
In this episode, Accenture’s Karen Odegaard, Managing Director – Global IT, and Marketing Director Sean Butterworth talk about how we are using the Microsoft Power Platform to empower our people to become citizen developers. Listen now.
In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett and Integrated Global Services Lead Ramnath Venkatamaran, talk about new Accenture research that shows leaders are growing their revenue up to five times by stepping up investments in AI, technology and cloud.
In this episode, Accenture’s CIO Penelope Prett and Technology Lead Adam Burden, talk about what advantages low code can bring to companies and what they need to be thinking about as low code becomes a normal part of our everyday vocabulary.
In this podcast, Penelope Prett, Accenture CIO and Elise Cornille, Managing Director – Technology Marketing talk about how we’re extracting the most value from the cloud and steps we are taking to continue optimizing our cloud strategy.
In this podcast, Accenture’s Chief Technology Officer Paul Daugherty and CIO Penelope Prett discuss how Accenture helps our clients achieve business transformation powered by technology and human ingenuity. You’ll learn about our approach to living systems and how companies can embrace change and agility for real impact and value. You’ll also hear about what innovations are happening today, and in the future, helping to drive more value for Accenture and our clients.
In this podcast, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses applied intelligence with Mark Martynus and Mark Dineen, members of our global IT organization’s Applied Intelligence Technology team. You’ll hear how we’re applying innovative analytics capabilities to meet the needs of our businesses, and what’s coming in the future.
In this podcast, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses IT automation with Rich Palumbo and Rahul Maheshwari, members of our global IT organization’s Intelligent Technology Operations team. You’ll hear how automation is enabling technology-powered business transformation at Accenture and what the future holds. We’ll share some examples of automation in action, as well as lessons learned along the way.
Melissa Summers, leading Corporate Technology in Accenture’s global IT organization, and Margaret Smith, who leads Geographic Services for Accenture, join CIO Penelope Prett in this podcast to discuss how Accenture is enabling accessibility for our global workforce. Hear about what Accenture is doing today in offices, and remotely, to enable an accessible workplace, what’s on the horizon and lessons learned for other organizations working to enable an accessible work environment.
In this episode of our CIO 24/7 Living Systems podcast series, Penelope Prett, Accenture’s CIO and guests Margaret Smith, who leads Accenture’s Geographic Services organization and Melissa Summers from our global IT organization discuss Accenture’s agile workplace and how we work together to enable Geographic Services.
In this episode of the CIO 24/7 Living System podcast series, Accenture's CIO Penelope Prett and Accenture managing directors Simon Gooch and Kris Burkhardt share insights on how we approach security at Accenture and how we keep our IT landscape secure in today’s world of evolving threats.
In this episode of the CIO 24/7 Living System podcast series, Accenture's CFO KC McClure and Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discuss how Finance and IT are working together to transform the organization.
Tony Leraris and Penelope Prett dive into how Accenture's global IT team enables our 500,000 people to work remotely, during the pandemic and beyond.
In this episode, Eli Lambert and Anand Raval join host Jason Warnke to discuss Accenture's SAP Journey. They chat about Accenture's experience along the way, lessons learned and what's next for SAP at Accenture.
In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses 'Powering Finance with SAP S/4HANA' and how Finance and IT have been working to together to make great strides in the SAP arena. Featured guests include Andrew Inchley, who leads Strategy for Accenture Finance and Eli Lambert, who runs our SAP platforms in Accenture's Global IT organization.
In this episode, Penelope Prett, Accenture CIO discusses how Accenture is enabling the elastic digital workplace with Jason Warnke.
In this episode, Accenture CIO Penelope Prett discusses cloud acceleration and optimization with Merim Becirovic and what this means for Accenture and our Global IT team.
Sarah Dugan and Jason Warnke discuss how Accenture enables their people to work remotely in this edition of the CIO 24/7 Podcast series.
This podcast, with Jason Warnke as the host, and Karen Odegaard as the guest, dives into Accenture's ServiceNow implementation, specifically how we're using ServiceNow as the platform for support.
Accenture's Stephen Redmond, Tricia Miller and Lisa Pearson break down the General Ledger Recommendation Model Project, utilizing analytics in SAP Ariba.
In this episode of the CIO 24/7 Podcast, Jason Warnke is joined by Melissa Summers and Ornella Dian, who oversaw accenture.com transition to Sitecore. Listen as they explain why we ended up choosing Sitecore to host our web presence and the benefits it provides. Read the full credential here: go.accenture.com/Poweringbyplatform
The latest episode of the CIO 24/7 podcast series features a special guest from Microsoft, Andrew Sniderman, the Director of Microsoft Teams Customer Engineering and Tony Leraris, who oversees Digital Worker at Accenture. They discuss both organizations' move to Teams and how this is a new way to work and what it takes to drive that adoption at each organization.
In this episode of the CIO 24/7 podcast series, Accenture’s Jason Warnke and Chris Crawford sit down to talk about the latest collaboration trends they see happening at the enterprise level. This episode is also the first to take place from Accenture’s new podcast audio recording booth. Take a listen now.
In this episode of the CIO 24/7 Podcast Series, Jason Warnke talks with Danica Lohja, a participant in Accenture’s National Apprenticeship Program through the City Colleges of Chicago, and Matt Lagodzinski who supported Accenture’s presence with the program in the Chicago area. Listen as they discuss the journey through the Apprenticeship program to getting hired and working for Accenture in the internal IT organization.
Jason Warnke sits down with Sarah Dugan and Urszula Fabiszak who lead Accenture’s End-User Technology Change and Adoption team for Internal IT initiatives. They discuss how we design technology tools and IT programs with the end user in mind, ensuring an intuitive experience. Listen and subscribe now. https://www.accenture.com/ciopodcast
Accenture’s Dan Kirner and Fred Hondzinski join Chris Crawford in the latest episode of the CIO 24/7 podcast series to discuss Accenture's Journey to Intelligent Finance with SAP S/4HANA. They discuss the catalyst for the transition, the steps taken to get where we are, the benefits we have seen and the insights learned. Read the full credential here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/success-journey-intelligence-finance-sap. Listen and subscribe now. https://www.accenture.com/ciopodcast.
In our latest episode of the CIO 24/7 Podcast series, Jason Warnke talks with Bill Schulz about Microsoft Teams at Accenture and how it is transforming the way we work and communicate. They discuss what the Microsoft Teams platform is, how it is being used and some of the new features coming soon https://www.accenture.com/us-en/success-microsoft-teams. Listen and subscribe now. https://www.accenture.com/ciopodcast
In this episode of the CIO 24/7 Podcast series, Stephen Cutchins and Paul Clayton join host Jason Warnke to discuss technology accessibility at Accenture. Among the topics they cover are Accenture's ambition to have all of our interactions with software, devices and services be compliant with globally defined accessibility standards and how this impacts them on a daily basis. Listen and subscribe now. http://accenture.com/ciopodcast
Listen to Accenture internal IT executives Jen McHale-Bryar and Jason Warnke chat about Accenture's involvement with Girls Who Code. Jen is a sponsor of the Accenture Girls Who Code Summer immersion program and shares why it has become her passion. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode, http://accenture.com/ciopodcast
In this episode of CIO 24/7 Podcast, Jason Warnke talks to Christy Nelson who oversees Accenture Digital Workplace projects globally. They discuss what the Workplace of the Future will look like and what that means for Accenture and our clients.
In our first Spotlight edition of the CIO 24/7 Podcast, Jason Warnke interviews Accenture internal IT managing director Melissa Summers in anticipation of International Women's Day 2018. Hear more about Melissa's exciting journey from high school science fairs to becoming an accomplished technology leader at Accenture.
Accenture Broadcast gives our people the ability to record and broadcast video from almost any location – bringing our globally dispersed workforce closer together. We are fully embracing digital as an enterprise, and video is adding a more human digital component that is inspiring and empowering our people.
To enhance the way employees work, Accenture is equipping more than 400,000 people with Microsoft's OneDrive for Business, offering secure file storage in the cloud, cost savings in keeping laptop hard drives small, and new usability and collaboration capabilities.
Accenture has one of the largest installations of Microsoft products in the world. Microsoft solutions, like Office 365 and Windows 10, are helping to speed up our workforce and elevate our digital workers to a new level of performance. We are enabling and connecting our mobile, fully-deployed global workforce and keeping Accenture pivoted in the new digital world.
With SAP Ariba’s launch of its guided buying capability on its Procure-to-Pay (P2P) software-as-a-service (SaaS), Accenture’s internal Procurement and IT organizations seized the opportunity to be an early adopter of the new capability to drive improved usability and increased procurement savings.
One of the ways Accenture is driving its own internal agenda is to digitally enable Accenture people with the ability to work productively and collaborate across the globe. A major component of this program is equipping employees with the latest Microsoft tools, through the deployment of Microsoft Windows 10.
To continue building on its culture of innovation, while reflecting the differentiation of its businesses, the future work environment and the demographics of its workforce, Accenture set out to reimagine performance management for the company.
Digital transformation is redefining the way Accenture works every day. This includes transforming the role of the traditional office into digital workplaces - transforming the way Accenture people work.
For Accenture’s IT organization, providing high-quality technology support for approximately 400,000 employees and contractors in more than 200 cities in 56 countries requires robust IT service management (ITSM) tools. Accenture is innovating service management for employees using the ServiceNow platform.
An important component of Accenture’s transformation into a digital-first enterprise is a three-year cloud program led by our internal IT organization. It’s a program that aims to deliver a more scalable, robust enterprise IT infrastructure in the public cloud.
At Accenture, the ability to efficiently and effectively execute sales activities to support our growth aspirations is a crucial objective. Accenture delivers a “one-stop shop” solution for all sales needs with Manage mySales - a single platform that can be used anywhere, anytime.
As the world becomes more digital, companies like Accenture are working to transform not only their clients' businesses but also their own in order to compete and accelerate. Accenture is transforming business performance management with the manage myBusiness capability.
Accenture employees turn to their internal search several times per second to find knowledge and experts to deliver better solutions for their clients. A new, Accenture-developed enterprise search capability better taps into our company’s rich content.
Accenture’s business is changing as the company transforms into a digital and more diverse enterprise. Both the business processes and IT capabilities must contend with a fast pace of change, growth, larger volumes and diverse businesses. Accenture is migrating to SAP Business Suite on Hana and S/4 Finance for a future of insight, agility and speed.
Accenture's IT organization has been able to address the complexity of Accenture’s environment while providing high-quality, proactive technology support to more than 400,000 people, and reducing costs.
Accenture looked to extend the value of the major investment it has made over the past 10 years in its video infrastructure by translating it from a network of devices for peer-to-peer communication into a network of content sources for global broadcast communications.
Collaboration, team building and knowledge sharing can be challenging and complex, especially among Accenture’s globally dispersed workforce. Accenture’s internal IT organization set out to create a collaborative business network, one that leveraged interactive mobile capabilities, social networking tools and collaboration applications to allow for fast, real-time interaction.