Accenture leaps to #8 on 'BusinessWeek' magazine's list of Best Places to Launch a Career
Accenture’s ranking on BusinessWeek magazine’s Best Places to Launch a Career list climbed significantly in 2007. The BusinessWeek report says that the rankings of 95 US companies show that the smartest employers know they must adapt incentives to a new generation entering the workforce—one that expects a very different workplace from the one of their parents.

TeliaSonera: SAP Solutions
To support its drive to achieve high performance, TeliaSonera chose Accenture to help it implement six SAP-based systems at the same time. The solution helped TeliaSonera lower costs and increase efficiency both at the profit center and corporate levels.

Accenture’s Swashbuckling Francesco Mandia brings pride to Italy as member of National Kendo Team
“Kendo is a traditional martial art that has transcended its origins as a means to defeat external enemies—fear, doubt, confusion, surprise, envy and vanity,” said Francesco Mandia, analyst-Systems Integration & Technology. “Kendo aims to inspire its practitioners to practice hard, triumph over adversity, stand valiantly against the strong and show compassion toward the weak, without self-promotion or expectation of others.”

Employee effort to create environmental advisory group wins Net Impact Green Challenge award
Accenture has won a Net Impact Green Challenge award for its efforts to promote sustainable environmental practices in the offices and communities in which our US employees work and live. The inaugural competition, sponsored by Seventh Generation and Office Depot, is intended to show how US companies and graduate students are improving the world through positive environmental change.