virtual management at accenture

case summary:

accenture is a global management consulting,technology services, and outsourscing company.

it has 129000 employees in 48 countries.

it has no operational headquarters and no formal branches. all staff and managers lived in different places(states).

accenture emploees log on to the company's internal website, which they can access from anywhere in the world.

they use this system to record where they are working, and ti access e-mail,phone messages ,and their files.

employees can't pop into co-workers' offices for informal meetings.

with some challenges accenture believes virtual management work.company doesn't have to maintain overhead cost for large headquarters.

almost 85% of accenture's 100 largest accounts have been its clients for 10years or more.

Q.1 What are the advantages of working in a enviornment like the one created by accenture? What are the disadvantage?

A:1 Advantages :

• as we see in summary company doesn't have to maintain overhead cost for large headquarters.


• it is time saving as well as enrgy saving.


• employees can easily interact with each other and with organization anytime anywhere..


• no conflict can occure.


• it makes desion fast and reliable.

Disadvantage:

• here no face to face communication occure so nobody can know whether person is telling lie or true.


• there is also chances of miscommunicatiopn becouse no face to face communication will occure.


• technological problem can cause business problem.


• empoyee's motivation , compentation c is not possible.

Q. 2 Would you like to work in a company like Accenture?Why or why not?Explain your answer.

A:2 yes offcourse I'll like to work with company like Accenture . Because I can work from my hometown. this company work globaly so its nice experience to work with this company.its save my time and this company gives many advantages.as we see in example of Lajtha.I improve my self by doing this challenging job.

Q.3 What kinds of companies could benefit from being run virtually like Accenture? Could all companies be run virtually like Accenture?

A:3: No, all companies can't be run virtually like Accenture. It requires a good co-ordination between the employees in organization. which might be difficult for many organization to implement with heavy cost.

globlise company can benifit from this type of work.