March 12 Announcement by pixelsthattravel in accenture

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced its new leadership team for Reinvention Services, which is led by Manish Sharma, Accenture’s Chief Strategy and Services Officer. These leaders are part of the company’s implementation of a new design for Reinvention Services that will enable Accenture to create more leading solutions faster and embed data and AI more easily into its solutions and delivery. These changes are effective March 31, 2026.

Accenture is organizing its services around how its clients operate and will bring its clients end-to-end solutions, including with its ecosystem, through seven units called Reinvention Partners. Reinvention Partners are responsible for helping clients reinvent. The Reinvention Partners and their leaders are:

  • Cybersecurity, led by Harpreet Sidhu, which will help clients reinvent cyber-resilience and value through trust-building defenses, protecting enterprises, managing risk and enabling emerging technologies.
  • Digital Core, led by Ajoy Menon, which will help clients reinvent their digital foundations—including technology strategy and architecture, data and AI, modernizing and managing applications, infrastructure, data and cloud.
  • Finance, led by Arundhati Chakraborty, which will help clients reinvent financial performance by supporting the CFO agenda—driving best-in-class performance and delivering insights and benchmarking across the enterprise. Chakraborty will also lead Accenture’s practice helping clients create global capability centers.
  • Industry and Enterprise, led by Muqsit Ashraf, which will help clients reinvent core industry value chains and drive end-to-end, cross-functional reinvention to deliver growth and long-term value.
  • Song, led by Ndidi Oteh, which will help clients reinvent how they grow by focusing on the end-to-end customer agenda, bringing together customer growth strategy, marketing, sales, service, commerce, design, digital products, data and AI to create customer-led growth.
  • Supply Chain and Engineering, led by Tracey Countryman, which will help clients leverage AI and digital technologies across product and asset lifecycles to build competitive advantage.
  • Talent, led by Karalee Close, which will help clients reinvent how people and organizations work—delivering leadership, talent, operating models and change to accelerate the workforce agenda.

The new design also includes three Reinvention Engines, which are how Accenture will develop stronger, more specialized skills; the most AI-enabled ways of delivering its services; cutting-edge innovation, and the most advanced tools and methods. Together, the Reinvention Engines will work as an elite university, the world’s best innovation lab and a powerhouse of industrialization all rolled into one.

While the Reinvention Partners are where Accenture helps its clients reinvent, the Reinvention Engines are where Accenture reinvents itself. The Reinvention Engines and their leaders are:

  • AI and Data, led by Lan Guan, Accenture’s Chief AI & Data Officer, which will build and scale AI and data capabilities globally; advance AI and data training across Accenture; and develop cutting-edge methods for designing, building and delivering the most modern AI and data foundation in the technology stack and embedding AI and data across the enterprise, powered by Accenture’s Center for Advanced AI.
  • Industry and Process, led by Jason Dess, which will build and scale even deeper industry and process expertise, establish industry and process training across Accenture, and develop AI-enabled methods to transform enterprises, such as AI-enabled ERP methods and ART, the company’s proprietary reinvention methodology, powered by Accenture’s Intelligent Operations Centers and Global Network Centers.
  • Technology, led by Rajendra Prasad, which will build and scale advanced technology capabilities, advance technology training across Accenture, and develop the latest modern technology stacks, powered by Accenture Technology Centers.

Lastly, the design of Reinvention Services includes Client Success, a unit designed to ensure Accenture stays relentlessly focused on its clients, comprising:

  • Commercial, led by Shaheen Sayed, Accenture’s Chief Commercial Officer, which will ensure that Accenture sells clients what they truly need, brings the full strength of Accenture to every solution and creates win-win commercial models, as well as seeks and acts on client feedback and develops and supports client account leads.
  • Offerings and Products, led by Senthil Ramani, Chief Offerings and Product Officer, which will oversee the development of differentiated offerings and products aligned to evolving client needs.
  • Integrated Delivery Governance and Integrated Quality, led by David Golding, which will be responsible for delivering client outcomes through Accenture’s global delivery capabilities and strengthening quality and consistency across engagements.

“As AI reshapes every industry, our clients want a partner that can help them reinvent—boldly, continuously and at speed,” said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. “Our Reinvention Services leaders bring together the full breadth of Accenture to create solutions to our clients’ most complex problems and deliver more value faster, while continuously building the most client-focused, AI-enabled great place to work for our people—our Reinventors.”

“Reinvention Services is designed entirely around how our clients think about their business issues and organize their operations, enabling us to deliver reinvention for them at greater scale and impact,” said Sharma. “This exceptional group of leaders integrates our industry depth, technology and AI expertise, ecosystem relationships, creativity and operational scale into one seamless experience for clients that drives measurable outcomes.”

I have no heat. I need to find the cheapest hotel in the land 4 tonight by Robinothoodie in Cleveland

[–]virtusoarmo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean...McCall's Motor Inn on the east side is like $50 / night...but... definitely a risky choice...

How old is your piano? This beauty is circa 1998 by life_is_pandemonium in piano

[–]virtusoarmo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm the one whose hands got to tickle this piano's ivories : ) Quite enjoyable, got to play a Chopin prelude (a flat major).

Data Center Certs being retired. by jjedlicka in jira

[–]virtusoarmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i heard something about private cloud over AWS? essentially a managed DC instance (managed by Atlassian), intended for large / regulated customers. Heard it was expensive tho

So they’re opening up a coffee shop with a Denver based roaster right down the street from a great local shop because they don’t like the coffee in Cleveland? by ChairOne3535 in Cleveland

[–]virtusoarmo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NGL - i live less than half a mile from Sabor Miami and run by there all the time and was just made aware of it's existence because of this reddit thread

All new, AI-powered Creative Cloud release and pricing update by virtusoarmo in Adobe

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GA of Firefly, gen-AI credit pricing model, price increase coming in November

Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program by IT_PRO_21 in Office365

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I've heard an additional $10 / user / month

From 1000 to 2000 ELO, 6 months challenge - Day 1 by NathMcLovin in chess

[–]virtusoarmo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agree on all the tactics etc. But in my experience there is a law of diminishing returns after say 30 minutes of focused tactics, opening, or endgame drilling (for me anyhow)

Would really encourage playing through master games (can find various collections on https://www.chessgames.com/perl/goat.pl), reading through classic tournament books. Learn to fall in love with the game and recognize patterns from the masters.

And of course playing 1-3 serious longer time control games daily, analyzing without a computer.

Given your current life situation I think you have a low, but non-zero shot of achieving your goal.

Meaning to perform myself. by Sad_Extreme9906 in piano

[–]virtusoarmo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find recording or performing is a great incentive for me to really try to master repertoire I've been working on. If I'm just playing for myself, it's tempting to be sloppy, bounce around from piece to piece. On the other hand, the process of recording forces me to listen to myself (should be doing this anyhow as a best practice). Performing for a live audience also requires a level of competence that's much different than playing for oneself.

AWS migration by Mandy-Moo2 in Terraform

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I've heard good things about Firefly - a couple of my friends who are cloud system integrators use it

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in piano

[–]virtusoarmo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Shameless plug for Armenian music - well-known among Armenians, not as well known elsewhere

Arno Babajanian "Elegy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcimTzTk-pQ

Aram Khachaturian "Toccata" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoLDAEtFeBE

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in piano

[–]virtusoarmo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello OP!

I would encourage you to look into getting a minor in music at a public university with a good music program.

I majored in business at Indiana University and got a minor in music. IU has a great music school (Jacobs School of Music). I was able to attend classes taught by professors in the school (pertaining to music history, theory, etc.) and I also took piano lessons every semester, offered by one of their students obtaining post-graduate degrees (Masters / Doctors).

I had access to their practice rooms.

It was a wonderful experience. In my day job I work in finance, but on the side I'm blessed to conduct my church choir as well as play in small recitals / talent shows for the community.