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Digital Disruption
Embrace the future of
work and your people
will embrace it with you
A window of opportunity for the workforce of the future 3
Preparing the digital workforce 4
Capitalizing on employee positivity 8
Rewiring the workforce 9
Where next? 10
About the research 11
Contents
3Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
A window of opportunity for
the workforce of the future
While the effects of digital disruption on business and operating
models are familiar territory, the impact on the workforce could
be the Achilles’ heel of organizations seeking to be digital.
1
Source: Accenture Strategy Employer Research on Being Digital, 2015
of business leaders say a
lack of digital skills is a key
barrier to transformation.
43%
New Accenture Strategy research1
shows 82 percent of business
leaders expect their organizations to be a digital business in the
next three years. And if they are to realize the benefits they
anticipate from being digital, the readiness of their workforce
must become a priority.
From concerns around artificial intelligence, to those about
employee resistance, the perceived landmines can mean
organizations hesitate to make the workforce changes needed
to advance their digital journeys. Indeed, business leaders feel one
of the greatest challenges to being digital is not having the required
skills and capabilities. Yet they should feel confident about moving
forward with their workforce plans. Our research shows executives
and employees are well aligned on the benefits of being digital. If
anything, employees are even more positive than their leaders about
the impact of digital on their work and jobs, and more proactive
in addressing gaps in digital competencies.
Business leaders should develop their teams with the know-how to
support their digital strategies and experiment with different ways
of organizing work. They need to form new types of partnerships
to make the most of non-traditional talent pools. They must build
a diverse, digitally savvy team that can inspire flexible, agile ways
of working. And they must lead by example.
This report is one of a series offering pragmatic advice on how to
embrace digital technologies to not only compete, but also drive
new value to help businesses grow. As business leaders seek to
increase productivity and agility, how can their organizations
be digital by default and secure the skills and talent needed to
innovate and build the workforce of the future?
4 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
Preparing the digital workforce
To capitalize on the positivity of their employees, business leaders need
to act on their strategies, adjust their workforce skill sets and prioritize
the workforce changes that will fast-forward their digital journey.
Right mind-set, wrong focus?
Business leaders expect to see improvements
across a wide range of factors from adopting
digital technologies.
In addition to the expected cost efficiencies, a majority cite benefits
from productivity, innovation, agility and quality of work. Business
leaders are also positive about the potential impact on employee
engagement and workplace safety (see Figure 1).
Moreover, business leaders expect those benefits to be driven
by a variety of technologies and tools such as 3D interfaces
and virtual reality, cognitive assistants and artificial intelligence,
or robots. They also recognize the influence of the Internet of Things
in transforming work practices in the next three years—71 percent
of business leaders acknowledge its impact.
However, recognizing the benefits of digital is not the same as
being digital. Currently, one in five business leaders describes
their company as a digital business. The rest are on a digital
journey where one of the most challenging aspects is preparing
the workforce to drive the desired business outcomes of agility,
productivity and innovation.
How to
Organizations need to come off the sidelines and adopt a “test and
learn” mentality. By selecting an area that is differentiating for the
business, executives can start experimenting—integrating new digital
technologies into processes to simplify, automate and augment
brain and brawn. In addition, they can identify specific skills and
competencies required to be successful now and in the future
and integrate them into job learning curricula and recruiting plans.
Figure 1. Top organizational benefits from adopting digital technologies in your industry
Source: Accenture Strategy Employer Research on Being Digital, 2015
82%
Innovation
2
82%
Cost efficiencies
3
81%
Agility
4
80%
Quality of work
5
74%
Employee engagement
6
65%
Workplace safety
7
83%
Productivity
1
5Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
6 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
Right strategy, wrong skills?
Organizations are grappling with the
changing roles, skills and technologies
necessary to be digital.
While business leaders are signaling the importance of talent to
the overall success of an organization’s digital journey, they express
concerns about their talent readiness. Only 51 percent of business
leaders said they already have a strategy for the management
and development of skills and talent in a digital world.
While the skills and capabilities required in a digital age will
vary based on industry and role, there are some factors that are
broadly relevant. Many employees will be expected to be comfortable
working with technology, such as sophisticated mobile devices that
support field force workers, technicians and engineers. As more basic
tasks are automated, workers can expect to take on higher value
roles that require data collection, data analysis and problem-solving
skills. Foundational skills will also be in high demand, including
communication and negotiation skills, and strong business acumen.
Finally, new jobs are being created with their own specialized
skill sets, such as digital copywriters, scrum masters in IT,
or digital product managers.
How to
To help manage their concerns around having the right talent
and skills, business leaders need to expand the way they think about
sourcing and developing talent. Increasingly, business leaders must
use digital tools, such as social media networking sites, mobile apps
and electronic job boards to attract today’s younger workforce.
They must embrace the broader ecosystem in which their companies
operate, partnering with educational institutions and exploring new
talent pools. They must re-evaluate the types of skills they are likely
to need—and be ready to reskill and retool their existing workforce.
Digital offers new opportunities in terms of ubiquitous training and
different ways of learning, such as massive open online courses.
of business leaders said they already
have a strategy for the management
and development of skills and talent
in a digital world.
51%
7Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
Right priorities, wrong journey?
From our research it is clear that the move
to digital for organizations across industry
sectors is a top priority.
Although nearly all the business leaders in our research said
it is critical or important to take action now to transition their
workforce to succeed in the digital economy, few are taking specific
actions to prepare their workforce for a digital future.
As business leaders acknowledge, moving to a digital ecosystem
affects the workforce in a variety of ways, not just skills and
capabilities. A minority of business leaders feel well prepared across a
wealth of dimensions related to leading and managing the workforce.
For example, only 38 percent of business leaders are ready to adapt
HR and talent practices and 37 percent the new work practices and
processes driven by digital technologies (see Figure 2).
In addition, our research shows that there is work to be done at the
leadership level. Over a three-year horizon, business leaders cite a lack
of leadership and vision as one of the main challenges to being digital.
In addition, only 34 percent of business leaders feel well prepared when
it comes to making changes in leadership and management practices
to adapt to the digital ecosystem—meaning two-thirds are barely
prepared to transition to a digital business.
How to
The digital journey is a significant change for all organizations.
Using data collected from nearly a million change journeys, we
have identified strong leadership as a critical success factor
in driving transformation. Moving beyond vertical-oriented
leadership, effective change leadership radiates out from the center.
Organizations need to focus on building the leadership skills to
breed a culture of feedback and innovation at all levels, pushing
out decision-making to the edges of the organization. Businesses
and their workforces have much to gain from digital but without
workforce changes, driven by strong leaders, their organizations’
ability to compete will be compromised.
Source: Accenture Strategy Employer Research on Being Digital, 2015
Figure 2. Business leaders said they are well prepared for their organizations to transition to a digital business
with respect to each of the following aspects
Sample base = All respondents
Organization of work 45%
Tapping into non-traditional sources of talent (e.g.
extended workers, workers in other geographies, etc.) 34%
Changes in leadership and management
practices to adapt to the digital ecosystem 34%
Recruitment of digital skills and capabilities 40%
Changing the skill and job mix of the workforce 39%
HR and talent practices (incl. more customized
learning, rewards, or jobs, real-time feedback) 38%
New work practices and processes
driven by digital technologies 37%
Providing customized, seamless and
consumerized employee experiences 36%
2
Source: Accenture Strategy Employee Research on Being Digital, 2015
Employees believe digital brings improvements
Employees are upbeat about the anticipated advancements from digital technologies,
with 70 percent identifying the team benefits of innovation, productivity (70 percent) and
agility (69 percent).
Unsurprisingly, the young, better educated and those with higher level occupations are
more positively disposed to digital technologies in the workplace.
Sixty-two percent of all employees we researched believe their organization is ready for digital
technologies, both in terms of the skills and capabilities of the workforce and with respect to
work practices and processes. They are also more bullish than their employers on how digital
technologies will improve their job prospects and their work experience—with only
10 percent feeling their job prospects will be negatively impacted.
Employees are actively seeking digital skills
A vast majority of employees (82 percent) acknowledge that digital technologies will
transform the way they work in the next three years, 44 percent saying the
level of transformation will be to a significant extent. Employees know they need to
adjust—but nearly half (43 percent) fear that their leaders are not ready.
Rather than sitting still and waiting for transformation to happen, employees are honing
their own skills and capabilities in readiness. Sixty-nine percent said they are assessing the
new skills and capabilities that will be required of them in the future. Almost seventy-one
percent said they are proactively learning new digital tools and technical skills to prepare
them to adapt to digital advances.
Employees are aware of the speed of change
Business leaders must be sensitive to the likely concerns their employees have about
the digital working environment.
Workers’ greatest worry is the pressure to keep up with new technologies to remain
effective, and 71 percent worry that remote working will erode team spirit.
8 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
Capitalizing on employee positivity
Conventional wisdom suggests that employees are a barrier to digital progress,
yet our research shows the opposite is true. Compared with the business leaders,
employees indicate that they are not only aware that digital will improve
their work experiences and job prospects, but also they are proactively seeking
out the skills they need to suit the demands of a digital business.2
9Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
Rewiring the workforce
The digital journey is seen to offer tangible benefits by business
leaders—and is being even more positively embraced by their employees.
From new roles, different ways of organizing work, and changing work
practices there are significant opportunities to humanize work—as long as
business leaders reinvent their strategies, become digital role models and
address the needs of the workforce of the future.
Where next?
Align your workforce and HR strategy with the business
Coordinate your workforce approach with the overall digital business strategy
to influence areas such as workforce planning.
Start experimenting with more flexible and agile ways of working using
proven digital technologies and tools
Engage the workforce to reinvent business processes and capabilities with big
data analytics, the Internet of Things, social collaboration tools and 3D/virtual
reality interfaces.
Define the digital skill gap within the workforce
Create a digital skills catalog by defining required skills and required level
of competency by job.
Develop required digital competencies within the workforce
Use ubiquitous training and new ways to learn via social learning platforms
and other online forums.
Foster leadership behaviors that fuel a digital culture
Set clear direction, engage with the workforce using collaboration technologies,
actively encourage feedback and innovative thinking, and push out decision-
making to the edges of the organization.
10 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
11Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
About the research
From February-August 2015, Accenture Strategy interviewed 925
business leaders in the Australia, Brazil, China, India, Japan, the United
States and the European Union. We wanted to understand how business
leaders and policy makers can take advantage of digital technologies
to accelerate growth and competitiveness. In addition, we sought the
views of more than 9,000 employees in Australia, Brazil, China, India,
Japan, the United States and the European Union—on the impact of digital
technologies on the future of work.
Copyright © 2016 Accenture
All rights reserved.
Accenture, its logo, and
High Performance Delivered
are trademarks of Accenture.
The views and opinions expressed in this document are meant to stimulate thought and
discussion. As each business has unique requirements and objectives, these ideas should
not be viewed as professional advice with respect to your business.
This document makes descriptive reference to trademarks that may be owned by others.
The use of such trademarks herein is not an assertion of ownership of such trademarks
by Accenture and is not intended to represent or imply the existence of an association
between Accenture and the lawful owners of such trademarks.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining
unmatched experience and specialized skills across more
than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned
by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at
the intersection of business and technology to help clients
improve their performance and create sustainable value for
their stakeholders. With approximately 373,000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation
to improve the way the world works and lives.
Visit us at www.accenture.com.
About Accenture Strategy
Accenture Strategy operates at the intersection of business
and technology. We bring together our capabilities in business,
technology, operations and function strategy to help our clients
envision and execute industry-specific strategies that support
enterprise wide transformation. Our focus on issues related to
digital disruption, competitiveness, global operating models,
talent and leadership help drive both efficiencies and growth.
For more information, follow @AccentureStrat or visit
www.accenture.com/strategy.
Authors
Deborah Brecher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
deborah.brecher@accenture.com
Celine Laurenceau
Paris, France
celine.laurenceau@accenture.com
Colin Sloman
London, England
colin.sloman@accenture.com
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Accenture-Strategy-Digital-Workforce-Future-of-Work

  • 1. Digital Disruption Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
  • 2. A window of opportunity for the workforce of the future 3 Preparing the digital workforce 4 Capitalizing on employee positivity 8 Rewiring the workforce 9 Where next? 10 About the research 11 Contents
  • 3. 3Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you A window of opportunity for the workforce of the future While the effects of digital disruption on business and operating models are familiar territory, the impact on the workforce could be the Achilles’ heel of organizations seeking to be digital. 1 Source: Accenture Strategy Employer Research on Being Digital, 2015 of business leaders say a lack of digital skills is a key barrier to transformation. 43% New Accenture Strategy research1 shows 82 percent of business leaders expect their organizations to be a digital business in the next three years. And if they are to realize the benefits they anticipate from being digital, the readiness of their workforce must become a priority. From concerns around artificial intelligence, to those about employee resistance, the perceived landmines can mean organizations hesitate to make the workforce changes needed to advance their digital journeys. Indeed, business leaders feel one of the greatest challenges to being digital is not having the required skills and capabilities. Yet they should feel confident about moving forward with their workforce plans. Our research shows executives and employees are well aligned on the benefits of being digital. If anything, employees are even more positive than their leaders about the impact of digital on their work and jobs, and more proactive in addressing gaps in digital competencies. Business leaders should develop their teams with the know-how to support their digital strategies and experiment with different ways of organizing work. They need to form new types of partnerships to make the most of non-traditional talent pools. They must build a diverse, digitally savvy team that can inspire flexible, agile ways of working. And they must lead by example. This report is one of a series offering pragmatic advice on how to embrace digital technologies to not only compete, but also drive new value to help businesses grow. As business leaders seek to increase productivity and agility, how can their organizations be digital by default and secure the skills and talent needed to innovate and build the workforce of the future?
  • 4. 4 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you Preparing the digital workforce To capitalize on the positivity of their employees, business leaders need to act on their strategies, adjust their workforce skill sets and prioritize the workforce changes that will fast-forward their digital journey. Right mind-set, wrong focus? Business leaders expect to see improvements across a wide range of factors from adopting digital technologies. In addition to the expected cost efficiencies, a majority cite benefits from productivity, innovation, agility and quality of work. Business leaders are also positive about the potential impact on employee engagement and workplace safety (see Figure 1). Moreover, business leaders expect those benefits to be driven by a variety of technologies and tools such as 3D interfaces and virtual reality, cognitive assistants and artificial intelligence, or robots. They also recognize the influence of the Internet of Things in transforming work practices in the next three years—71 percent of business leaders acknowledge its impact. However, recognizing the benefits of digital is not the same as being digital. Currently, one in five business leaders describes their company as a digital business. The rest are on a digital journey where one of the most challenging aspects is preparing the workforce to drive the desired business outcomes of agility, productivity and innovation. How to Organizations need to come off the sidelines and adopt a “test and learn” mentality. By selecting an area that is differentiating for the business, executives can start experimenting—integrating new digital technologies into processes to simplify, automate and augment brain and brawn. In addition, they can identify specific skills and competencies required to be successful now and in the future and integrate them into job learning curricula and recruiting plans.
  • 5. Figure 1. Top organizational benefits from adopting digital technologies in your industry Source: Accenture Strategy Employer Research on Being Digital, 2015 82% Innovation 2 82% Cost efficiencies 3 81% Agility 4 80% Quality of work 5 74% Employee engagement 6 65% Workplace safety 7 83% Productivity 1 5Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
  • 6. 6 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you Right strategy, wrong skills? Organizations are grappling with the changing roles, skills and technologies necessary to be digital. While business leaders are signaling the importance of talent to the overall success of an organization’s digital journey, they express concerns about their talent readiness. Only 51 percent of business leaders said they already have a strategy for the management and development of skills and talent in a digital world. While the skills and capabilities required in a digital age will vary based on industry and role, there are some factors that are broadly relevant. Many employees will be expected to be comfortable working with technology, such as sophisticated mobile devices that support field force workers, technicians and engineers. As more basic tasks are automated, workers can expect to take on higher value roles that require data collection, data analysis and problem-solving skills. Foundational skills will also be in high demand, including communication and negotiation skills, and strong business acumen. Finally, new jobs are being created with their own specialized skill sets, such as digital copywriters, scrum masters in IT, or digital product managers. How to To help manage their concerns around having the right talent and skills, business leaders need to expand the way they think about sourcing and developing talent. Increasingly, business leaders must use digital tools, such as social media networking sites, mobile apps and electronic job boards to attract today’s younger workforce. They must embrace the broader ecosystem in which their companies operate, partnering with educational institutions and exploring new talent pools. They must re-evaluate the types of skills they are likely to need—and be ready to reskill and retool their existing workforce. Digital offers new opportunities in terms of ubiquitous training and different ways of learning, such as massive open online courses. of business leaders said they already have a strategy for the management and development of skills and talent in a digital world. 51%
  • 7. 7Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you Right priorities, wrong journey? From our research it is clear that the move to digital for organizations across industry sectors is a top priority. Although nearly all the business leaders in our research said it is critical or important to take action now to transition their workforce to succeed in the digital economy, few are taking specific actions to prepare their workforce for a digital future. As business leaders acknowledge, moving to a digital ecosystem affects the workforce in a variety of ways, not just skills and capabilities. A minority of business leaders feel well prepared across a wealth of dimensions related to leading and managing the workforce. For example, only 38 percent of business leaders are ready to adapt HR and talent practices and 37 percent the new work practices and processes driven by digital technologies (see Figure 2). In addition, our research shows that there is work to be done at the leadership level. Over a three-year horizon, business leaders cite a lack of leadership and vision as one of the main challenges to being digital. In addition, only 34 percent of business leaders feel well prepared when it comes to making changes in leadership and management practices to adapt to the digital ecosystem—meaning two-thirds are barely prepared to transition to a digital business. How to The digital journey is a significant change for all organizations. Using data collected from nearly a million change journeys, we have identified strong leadership as a critical success factor in driving transformation. Moving beyond vertical-oriented leadership, effective change leadership radiates out from the center. Organizations need to focus on building the leadership skills to breed a culture of feedback and innovation at all levels, pushing out decision-making to the edges of the organization. Businesses and their workforces have much to gain from digital but without workforce changes, driven by strong leaders, their organizations’ ability to compete will be compromised. Source: Accenture Strategy Employer Research on Being Digital, 2015 Figure 2. Business leaders said they are well prepared for their organizations to transition to a digital business with respect to each of the following aspects Sample base = All respondents Organization of work 45% Tapping into non-traditional sources of talent (e.g. extended workers, workers in other geographies, etc.) 34% Changes in leadership and management practices to adapt to the digital ecosystem 34% Recruitment of digital skills and capabilities 40% Changing the skill and job mix of the workforce 39% HR and talent practices (incl. more customized learning, rewards, or jobs, real-time feedback) 38% New work practices and processes driven by digital technologies 37% Providing customized, seamless and consumerized employee experiences 36%
  • 8. 2 Source: Accenture Strategy Employee Research on Being Digital, 2015 Employees believe digital brings improvements Employees are upbeat about the anticipated advancements from digital technologies, with 70 percent identifying the team benefits of innovation, productivity (70 percent) and agility (69 percent). Unsurprisingly, the young, better educated and those with higher level occupations are more positively disposed to digital technologies in the workplace. Sixty-two percent of all employees we researched believe their organization is ready for digital technologies, both in terms of the skills and capabilities of the workforce and with respect to work practices and processes. They are also more bullish than their employers on how digital technologies will improve their job prospects and their work experience—with only 10 percent feeling their job prospects will be negatively impacted. Employees are actively seeking digital skills A vast majority of employees (82 percent) acknowledge that digital technologies will transform the way they work in the next three years, 44 percent saying the level of transformation will be to a significant extent. Employees know they need to adjust—but nearly half (43 percent) fear that their leaders are not ready. Rather than sitting still and waiting for transformation to happen, employees are honing their own skills and capabilities in readiness. Sixty-nine percent said they are assessing the new skills and capabilities that will be required of them in the future. Almost seventy-one percent said they are proactively learning new digital tools and technical skills to prepare them to adapt to digital advances. Employees are aware of the speed of change Business leaders must be sensitive to the likely concerns their employees have about the digital working environment. Workers’ greatest worry is the pressure to keep up with new technologies to remain effective, and 71 percent worry that remote working will erode team spirit. 8 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you Capitalizing on employee positivity Conventional wisdom suggests that employees are a barrier to digital progress, yet our research shows the opposite is true. Compared with the business leaders, employees indicate that they are not only aware that digital will improve their work experiences and job prospects, but also they are proactively seeking out the skills they need to suit the demands of a digital business.2
  • 9. 9Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you Rewiring the workforce The digital journey is seen to offer tangible benefits by business leaders—and is being even more positively embraced by their employees. From new roles, different ways of organizing work, and changing work practices there are significant opportunities to humanize work—as long as business leaders reinvent their strategies, become digital role models and address the needs of the workforce of the future.
  • 10. Where next? Align your workforce and HR strategy with the business Coordinate your workforce approach with the overall digital business strategy to influence areas such as workforce planning. Start experimenting with more flexible and agile ways of working using proven digital technologies and tools Engage the workforce to reinvent business processes and capabilities with big data analytics, the Internet of Things, social collaboration tools and 3D/virtual reality interfaces. Define the digital skill gap within the workforce Create a digital skills catalog by defining required skills and required level of competency by job. Develop required digital competencies within the workforce Use ubiquitous training and new ways to learn via social learning platforms and other online forums. Foster leadership behaviors that fuel a digital culture Set clear direction, engage with the workforce using collaboration technologies, actively encourage feedback and innovative thinking, and push out decision- making to the edges of the organization. 10 Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you
  • 11. 11Digital disruption: Embrace the future of work and your people will embrace it with you About the research From February-August 2015, Accenture Strategy interviewed 925 business leaders in the Australia, Brazil, China, India, Japan, the United States and the European Union. We wanted to understand how business leaders and policy makers can take advantage of digital technologies to accelerate growth and competitiveness. In addition, we sought the views of more than 9,000 employees in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Japan, the United States and the European Union—on the impact of digital technologies on the future of work.
  • 12. Copyright © 2016 Accenture All rights reserved. Accenture, its logo, and High Performance Delivered are trademarks of Accenture. The views and opinions expressed in this document are meant to stimulate thought and discussion. As each business has unique requirements and objectives, these ideas should not be viewed as professional advice with respect to your business. This document makes descriptive reference to trademarks that may be owned by others. The use of such trademarks herein is not an assertion of ownership of such trademarks by Accenture and is not intended to represent or imply the existence of an association between Accenture and the lawful owners of such trademarks. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com. About Accenture Strategy Accenture Strategy operates at the intersection of business and technology. We bring together our capabilities in business, technology, operations and function strategy to help our clients envision and execute industry-specific strategies that support enterprise wide transformation. Our focus on issues related to digital disruption, competitiveness, global operating models, talent and leadership help drive both efficiencies and growth. For more information, follow @AccentureStrat or visit www.accenture.com/strategy. Authors Deborah Brecher Philadelphia, Pennsylvania deborah.brecher@accenture.com Celine Laurenceau Paris, France celine.laurenceau@accenture.com Colin Sloman London, England colin.sloman@accenture.com Join the conversation @AccentureStrat