Explore every episode of the podcast Accenture Management Consulting Podcast Series

Listen to Accenture’s contact center vendor management framework podcast to find out how to select the right vendors and build strategic relationships with them.

Listen to Accenture’s Leading-edge Pricing podcast to learn how companies can employ cost and price waterfall models for competitive pricing and negotiating profitable deals.

Listen to a podcast about rethinking risk and finance in financial institutions and learn more about making the CFO-CRO partnership work.

Listen to a podcast discussing how pricing has now evolved into a much more advanced and predictive science.

Listen to a podcast about how pricing as a managed service in Automotive and Industrial Equipment Industries can improve operating performance and help create a competitive advantage.

Listen to a podcast about a CFO’s role in using sustainability to deliver more business value, and associated risks and opportunities.

Read about new research from Accenture that explores customer tolerance of service levels—podcast.

Listen to a podcast discussing the changing role of finance in today’s volatile global economy.

Listen to a podcast that identifies how companies can develop the organizational ability to deal with constant, rapid change.

Listen to a podcast discussing what type of leadership is needed to create agile organizations that meet the challenges of marketplace volatility.

Listen to a podcast discussing the benefits of financial agility in today’s volatile business environment.

Listen to our podcast that explores global economic volatility, and what capabilities are necessary for organisations to thrive in such an environment.

Listen to the Accenture 2013 Global Manufacturing Study podcast to understand what manufacturing leaders are doing differently to address market challenges.

Listen to this podcast relating to the role of strategy in helping corporates achieve agility in an age of volatility.

Listen to a podcast discussing how and why marketers need to become more agile in today’s volatile business environment.

Listen to a podcast that outlines the reasons for the skills gaps, and offers concrete steps for bridging it.

Listen to this podcast which discusses the role that supply chain executives can play in driving sustainability.

Listen to this podcast which explores how to tap into the full learning power of the entire enterprise—improving formal learning programs while incorporating the latest developments in social learning, coaching and collaborative platforms.

Listen to our podcast that explores global economic volatility, and the opportunities it creates for the companies with the necessary agility.

Listen to this podcast that explores why contextual pricing is so important as a growth driver.

Listen to Accenture’s Bob Thomas and Claudy Jules discuss the top three attributes to lead multinationals successfully.

Listen to this podcast which outlines the latest Accenture High Performance Finance Study.

Accenture’s David Gartside and Rustin Richburg look at how companies can successfully manage a global workforce to support their growth strategies.

Listen to the Accenture Broken Promises podcast on the impact of customer service management on a company’s brand image.

Accenture’s David Gartside and Rustin Richburg look at how companies can successfully manage a global workforce to support their growth strategies.

Accenture’s David Gartside and Rustin Richburg look at how companies can successfully manage a global workforce to support their growth strategies.

Listen to Accenture’s Norbert Büning and Breck Marshall discuss how organizations can address the skills crisis.

Listen to Accenture’s Dr Mathias Kirchmer discussing business process improvement as seen in the 2nd edition of his book High Performance through Process Excellence.

Listen to Accenture’s Norbert Büning and Will Castles discuss how organizations can increase the return on their learning investments.

Accenture’s David Gartside and Rustin Richburg look at how companies can successfully manage a global workforce to support their growth strategies.

In this podcast, Accenture’s Mathias Kirchmer argues that business process management is becoming a permanent function within companies.

Sir David King, GSK’s Richard Pamenter and Accenture’s Peter Lacy discuss the impact of a changing climate on human health and what this means for the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry.

In this podcast, Accenture’s Walter Gossage and Andrew Leach explore how organizations can equip themselves to be change-capable.

The recent financial crisis has impacted the role of the CFO. New research from Accenture explores the nature of the impact and what CFOs are requiring from their various capabilities and processes. Listen to this podcast to find out more.

Listen to podcast with a managing director of Accenture Sales and Customer Services practice discusses applying the science of analytics to selling.

With an uncertain industry outlook and some cash-rich companies, it seems likely that M&A activity will increase in the biopharmaceutical industry. In this podcast, Accenture’s Tom Herd and Arda Ural argue that a disciplined approach to M&A is vital to build shareholder value.

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that only 22 percent of companies using a balanced scorecard can demonstrate a causal link between the scorecard and the creation of shareholder value. In this podcast, Mike Tsapralis and Eric Noren of Accenture Finance & Performance Management look at what makes for successful enterprise performance management that boosts the bottom line.

In this podcast,Norbert Büning, executive director of learning and collaboration for the Accenture Talent & Organization Performance practice, and Barbara Williams, global lead for Accenture’s learning and HR business process outsourcing practice, kick off a series of podcasts exploring ten enterprise learning imperatives to meet a new generation of business challenges.

As part of the Accenture Management Consulting podcast series, Tom Herd, North America lead for mergers and acquisitions within Accenture’s Strategy practice argues that the most challenging phase of a merger or acquisition is the merger integration phase.

In this podcast, Accenture’s Shelley Hurley and Tim Bohall discuss how energy companies can manage credit risk.

In this podcast, Accenture’s Paul Nunes explains that cost-driven innovation can generate great new products.

In this podcast, Accenture’s Mark Spelman talks about latest research that shows that IT and globalization are defining business in the multi-polar world.

Jeanne Harris, introduces a new book—Analytics at Work—on how organizations can establish a sustainable, robust, enterprise-wide analytical capability.

In this podcast, Eva Dewor, Global Director of Accenture’s Risk Management Practice, and Michael Chagares, Senior Executive of Accenture’s Risk Management Practice, analyze the survey findings in detail and posit a new direction for corporate risk management: a holistic risk management superstructure that can help companies increase clarity, responsiveness and standardization across the entire organization.

In this podcast, Robert Wollan, Accenture’s Customer Relationship Management lead for North America, is up front about front-office imperatives, choices and challenges. His principal point is the need for, and potential of, customer centric cost management: culling the noise, politics and personalities from the front-office equation and putting the focus squarely on what customers value.

Listen to the Carbon Disclosure Project podcast focused on the challenges of maintaining sustainable supply chains.

In this podcast, Andy Tinlin, global lead for Mergers & Acquisitions, Accenture Strategy, explains the reasons why the roles of private equity and sovereign wealth funds are changing in the current environment and how they are adapting their approaches in reaction to this change.

In this podcast, Andy Tinlin, global lead for Mergers & Acquisitions, Accenture Strategy, identifies the key challenges associated with post-merger integration, as well as the inherent risks and strategies for mitigating them. He also examines the current environment’s influence on PMI labor savings, procurement optimization, customer and talent retention and the attainment of competitive advantage.

In this podcast, Andy Tinlin, global lead for Mergers & Acquisitions, Accenture Strategy, discusses divestiture strategies in a down market, explains how Accenture assists with divestitures, identifies key success factors and reviews implications for the seller, buyer and the relinquished entity.

In this podcast, Andy Tinlin, global lead for Mergers & Acquisitions, Accenture Strategy, discusses how the economic downturn is affecting pre-deal M&A activity. He also identifies high-potential opportunities, industries and company types, and looks at the economy’s influence on M&A timetables.