The strategy behind Accenture Strategy

Accenture, a management consulting and professional services brand, successfully launched a new service branch amid a competitive market by targeting company CEOs worldwide, during their airport commutes and online activity.

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Advertiser: Accenture

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For many years, Accenture has provided strategy consulting services across more than 40 industries. We target Forbes Global 2,000 C-Suite executives. We're talking CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and Chief Strategy Officers. This audience is very small, notoriously hard to reach and even harder to impress.

Fighting for this C-Suite audience were a number of firms with big reputations. McKinsey, considered the most prestigious firm, has led the market for nearly 90 years. Other firms like Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain and Booz have for decades also owned significant mindshare of the...

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