After reading the case study on Accenture, my key takeaway is that it was a great decision for Accenture to operate their IT infrastructure as its own segment rather than as a cost center. This might have been a risky decision for the company during the big tech boom of 2001, but all the numbers point to good things. Even though they were not viewing their IT portion of their business as a cost center, the costs of operating their IT structure has significantly decreased and sponsors have become very happy.
I am a little confused on the few options that are being presented and look forward to hearing them debated tonight in class. In my opinion, Accenture has made the right decisions and took the oppurtunity to implement an ERP at a time that has proven to be approriate. I am all for ERP's because I do believe they offer many advantages that companies can take advantage of and other opportunities where they didn't even know existed until the ERP implementation.
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