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Accenture's $865 million reinvention includes saying goodbye to people without the right AI skills
"This change is so big," Accenture CEO Julie Sweet told Fortune, "this is reversing five decades of how we're working." Higher headcount is still expected.
Accenture’s fourth-quarter earnings not only surpassed expectations but also marked a moment when the consulting giant, which is playing a pivotal role in corporate America’s adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), disclosed its own AI-related reorg. “It is well recognized that advanced AI has taken the mindshare of CEOs, the C-suite and boards faster than any technology development we’ve seen in the past two decades,” Sweet said. This included the emotional and strategic difficulties involved with the departures of senior team leaders depart and overhauling structural models, some of them established over many years.
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