High Performance Business High Performance Business is a strategic initiative for our company – supporting Accenture's business strategy by defining how we go to market and how we interact with our clients, Accenture believes businesses that have been consistently successful over time share certain characteristics. These are what permit them to prosper whatever the market conditions might be. This ability to succeed over time is called high performance. Accenture is devoting considerable resources to researching what constitutes high performance, both generally and within certain industries. It currently sponsors an Institute for High Performance Business leads these research efforts. Horizontal Services Those services provided across and common to all industries, e.g., finance and accounting, customer relationship management, human resources. See also Vertical Industries.