Accenture plans to expand into the Russian management consulting market. Key aspects of the strategy include:
1) Entering oil/gas and financial services industries initially due to their attractiveness and ability to utilize Accenture's strengths.
2) Developing practices gradually based on demand from entered industries.
3) Building relationships initially with offices of Accenture's international partners in Russia and conducting active sales.
4) Differentiating from competitors by leveraging Accenture's global scale, research capabilities, and focus on implementation.
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1. Dmitry Chechulin Eugenia Slivko Serafima Krasnonosova Victoria Meos
Accenture expansion to Russian market of
management consulting
Moscow 2010
2. Summary and key figures
1. The market penetration strategy is to be realized through step-by-step
entering to the number of industries depending on their attractiveness as
revenue generation and the ability to utilize Accenture competitive
advantages.
2. The most important to be entered at the moment of market entry are
Oil&Gas and Financial services.
3. The relationship building process on Russian market should be started with
contacting the offices of Accenture global clients in Russia.
4. The most important actions to be done to supplement Accenture competitive
advantages at the moment of market entry are:
1. Create local research team
2. Headhunt 2 partners from competing consultancies
5. The initial investments on office opening will account for $3,5 mln
6. The overall strategy implementation will bring $106 mln as revenue in 2020
3. Industries and practices development milestones. Sales strategy.
2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
1 Industries to Telecom Pharma&Health
Oil&Gas Transport
Energy&Utilities Mining&Metals IT
enter (App.1) Finance&Banking Trade
FMCG Manufacturing
2 Practices to • Process & • Customer • Supply Chain • Talent &
Innovation Relationship
Management Organization
develop Management
• Finance &
Management
• Strategy • Risk Management performance
Performance
Management
• Accenture • Active sales start • Increase the share of strategic and • Achieve the
3 Sales strategy international using developed long operational projects return rate of
partners research group • Continuing the active sales policy clients at
Russian offices to define targets through organization of large about 70-80%
industrial conferences to attract
projects manage-ment end sell services
• Relationship building via • Major clients share in revenues
implementation of lesser and accounts for 40-50%
mid-sized operational projects
Key strategy points:
•Overall industry entrance strategy is to start the relationship building with major clients in the most revenue&profits
generating and the most growing business fields to ensure the steady flow of returning clients since 2014-2015 (App. 2)
•As it is not able to bring the whole AMC practice to Russia at one moment different practices are to be developed gradually
according to demand from industries entered. To be able to lend services of practices yet not developed in Russia the certain
amount experts from other AMC offices are to come to Russia on project basis.
•The key strategy of sales is to build relationships with the offices of Accenture international partners in Russia and start active
sales (industries analysis -> market players analysis -> recommendations&services presentation to chosen companies)
4. Differentiation from competitors. Competitive advantages
comparison.
Booz
McK
Bain
BCG
ATK
Development and enforcement of
advantages
Attract strong IT practice experts from
Strong IT
practice European offices to ensure successful start in
financial sector projects.
Operation
consulting Perform operation consulting as first Russian
superiority projects to build up an image of
“implementation” consultancy and start
Focus on relationship building.
implementation
Create Russian branch of Accenture Institute of
Research power
High performance along with market entry.
Diverse glocal Two Russian partners from top consultancies
practice (200
offices) should be headhunted at 1st stage of market
entry to acquire a local business understanding
and contacts.
- Equivalent strength of competitor
- Accenture outperforms the competitor
- The competitor doesn't possess such power
Accenture main competitive advantages in comparison with main rivals (App.3) powers show that the unique combinations
of Accenture strengths will allow it successfully compete for the major clients on the market.
5. Personnel structure. Recruitment strategy. Engagement principles.
1 Strategy of personnel development (App.6) 2 Personnel recruiting sources (App.4)
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8 P
A
R
140 4 • During first 6 T
N
months 2011 two E
R
Partners from P
120 7 Accenture world R
18 I
office come to N
C
3 Russia. By the end I
100 15 2011 two Partner,
P
A
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two Managers and
M
80 two Consultants A
6 from top companies N
(specialized in A
2 G
60 10 120 energy and finance E
5 sectors) will be R
1 90 acquired. C
40 7 O
4 N
1 54 • During 10 years S
U
4 Accenture Russia L
20 36 T
R
24 will have average A
4 N E
project team T S Back
0 2 Manager + 2 Research department
E
A office:
2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 Consultants R
HR, IT
Back office C
H
3 Recruitment methods (App.5)
4 Engagement strategy
This diagram
represent the
average
percentage of
time spend on
the Project by
each group.
5
6. Financials aspects of strategy implementation
Key assumptions
Total revenue and total costs (App.7-9) - We assume that 2 types of project will be carried out (50%
of projects are strategy, 50% - operation)
by year, $
$106 $120
Strategy project Operation project
$94
$82 $100
Average duration,
$66 $80 2-3 6-9
months
Million $
middle of 2012 is $52
break-even point $42 $60 Price per month $ 250 - 350k $ 200-300k
$28 $40 1 manager+ 2 1 manager + 4
$19 $18 $21 $23 Team
$11 $12 $15 consultants consultants
$9 $8 $20
$2 $6
$4 $0
$3
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Initial investments
Total costs $3 420 250
Total costs Total revenue 1. Personnel $2 898 440
1.1. Salaries of consulting staff $2 266 000
1.2. Salaries of support staff and
Revenue (operation and strategic researchers $312 000
projects) by year, $ 1.3. Recruitment (career fairs, finding of
support staff via recruitment agencies)
$21 600
$120.00 Million $ 1.4. Education and training, retreats
$119 540
$100.00 1.5. Medical assurance $31 300
$27.00
$24.00 $80.00 1.6. Other Benefits $148 000
$21.00 2. Office $521 360
$13.20$16.80 $70.00$78.75 $60.00 Office capacity, people 26
$10.80 $61.25
$7.20 $40.00 Office sq. 400
$4.80 $49.00 2.1. Office rental $260 000
$38.50 $20.00
$0.60 $2.40 $14.00 $21.00$31.50 2.2. Cleaning $7 200
$7.00 $- 2.3. Office maintainance $48 000
$1.50
2.4. Equipment $200 000
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
2.5. Consumables $6 160
Revenue, operation projects Revenue, strategic projects 3. Support services (taxi, copycenter)
$7 360
8. App.1. Comparative industry attractiveness analysis
Av. rev. Av. profits Competition Growth Accenture best Need in consulting Average
by comp by comp. level rate practices
Oil&Gas - Accenture Global Energy Board
- Extensive research
- Complication of extraction
- Global markets entry
- End-to-end solutions - Increase of efficiency importance
Energy - Strong utilities practice -Strong need in modernization and
innovations
-Not optimal org.structure is common
Mining -Thought leadership in mining
(strong R&D)
-Companies still haven’t recovered
from losses of economic downturn
-Powerful relationship with world -High capitalized business equals high
major miners costs of decisions made
Manufacturing -Extensive research on performance
issues
-Highly cyclical business
-Constant need in performance
- Global Delivery Network improvement
FMCG - High potential of modern IT
systems utilizing for sufficient
-Simultaneous rationalizing of
operations
increase in effectiveness in channel -Fast market – need for innovation
management and client relations - Majors have their own consulting
Trade -End-to-end services offering for
Trade enterprises
-Highly volatile environment
- Constant need for performance
optimization
Finance -Work experience with top banks
- Connection with IT best practice
-Expected strong growth
- Expectations of the “rules” change
- Alnova Financial Solutions
Pharma & - ICD-10 solution -High potential of development
- Lack of large clients in Russia
Health - Government support of change in the
industry
Telecom & -Network outsourcing services - Constant new technologies
development results in issues of R&D
media - Software-as-a-service (SaaS) model investments choice and modernization
Development -Building materials practice
- Intelligent infrastructure solutions
-Severe crisis impact on developers
- High importance of cost optimization
Transport -“Port in a Box” solution
- IT integration services
- Significant growth opportunities due
to globalization development
IT N/A
-Provision of access to specialized
soft
-Crucial role of time in the market
strategy
-R&D transform services - Innovation process importance
Metals - Industry thought leadership -Knowledge retention
- Business complexity increase due to
globalization processes
Source: Expert-400 rating, accenture.com, SmartCom analysis
9. App.2. Expert 400 industry analysis
№ of Net profit 2009
Net profit 2009, Rev 2009 by
Industry companies in Rev 2009 mln RUB Growth rate, % Rev 2009, $mln by company, mln
mln RUB company, $mln
Expert 400 RUB
Oil&Gas 13 8 428 846,0 -6,6 265 726,6 1 605 391,2 20 440,5 123 491,6
Finance 41 3 049 189,9 26,7 96 128,5 115 950,6 2 344,6 2 828,1
Trade 80 2932716,2 6,4 92456,9 79279,5 1 155,7 991,0
Metals 22 2449835,8 -25,0 77233,1 77349 3 510,6 3 515,9
Transport 26 2 218 520,2 1,2 69 940,9 175 693,7 2 690,0 6 757,5
Energy 25 1 758 924,6 14,0 55 451,5 30 940,5 2 218,1 1 237,6
Manufacturing 49 1 540 827,2 -22,1 48 575,9 -41 164,0 991,3 -840,1
Development 48 1 196 273,8 8,8 37 713,4 -2 054,2 785,7 -42,8
FMCG 33 1 045 913,6 11,5 32 973,6 64 405,4 999,2 1 951,7
TMT 12 965 951,3 0,4 30 452,4 125 528,1 2 537,7 10 460,7
Mining 9 413 844,4 9,8 13 046,7 52 755,1 1 449,6 5 861,7
IT 8 170 188,4 -17,4 5 365,3 н.д. 670,7 N/A
Pharma 1 24 095,4 68,1 759,6 6 836,4 759,6 6 836,4
1st to enter:
•Oil&Gas industry should be entered right from the start as it has the highest potential of organizational
improvement revenue generation
•Finance sector also is of key importance as strong growth is expected
Further development of industries practice depends on the development potential of each one of them. The
smallest (in terms of major and mid-sized companies operating) and the less growing are to be entered later when
company has enough personnel power to handle projects in less margin generating spheres.
10. App.3. Accenture competitive advantages in comparison
with main competitors
Key competative advantages Companies
A.T. Kearney Bain BCG Booz McKinsey
IT technologies combined with the have some IT Technologies
understanding of client needs increase (internet-bank model)
efficiency of the company
End-to-end practices and innovative well known for operational a lot of operational have operational have operational have
technologies allow to reach 1st place in work, especially sourcing consulting in Russia consulting (40% of consulting operational
operation consulting business) consulting
Special focus on implementation of implementation practice is focused on more theory
the strategy provide client with an present, but not a key factor implementation than
opportunity to reduce costs of the recently implementatio
project. n
Consulting solutions prove to be unique track trends in a range of have Strategy institute heavy emphasis a knowledge
and up-to-date for every project due to industries (a think tank to apply on research factory (more
great attention to research. insights from different theoretical)
academic disciplines to
the strategic
challenges)
Presence of company in 200 offices big presence in Europe big presence over the offices in present in
over the world permit to deliver (especially Southeast Europe), world, also in Asia, Europe, more many
highest value to client through diversity but not so diverse globally Australia interested in countries
and cooperative international work India
secrecy and a lot of people with vast clear industry came first
Other key advantages over confidentiality experience in different expertise
Accenture sectors
not so structured lack of system lack of
Other key disadvantages approach creativity
size
11. App.4. Recruiting strategy by the periods
• PARTNER • PRINCIPAL
• Such proportion of recruiting source is • Such proportion of recruiting source is averaged for 10
averaged for 10 years years
• During first year Partners are transferred • There is no principal in first year
from Accenture world office (2) and from top • When new service line is developing Principal from
consulting companies (2) Accenture world office is transferred
• Further, all Partners are grown up inside • Further, all Principals are grown up inside Accenture Russia
Accenture Russia
• MANAGER • CONSULTANT
• Such proportion of recruiting source is • During first year the Company will acquire 2 Consultants from top
averaged for 10 years consulting companies
• During first year 2 Managers acquired • Further, most import source for Consultant recruitment will
from top consulting companies business case competition, organized by the Company in autumn
• Further, the most part of Managers will be annually
c
grow up inside the Company (70%). When • The Company determinate the pool of universities in Russia,
new service line will be launched - Managers which will provide graduates with different specializations (physics,
will be transferred from Accenture world economics, math, biology and etc)
office (approximately 25% ) • Moreover, the Company will attract middle managers from
industry sectors (12%).
• RESEARCHER
•During first 2 years the Company will acquire Researchers from top consulting companies (95%
of all employed Researchers) and from Accenture world office (5%)
• Further, 100% researches will be recruited due to web-sites and newspaper articles
12. App.5. Career development in Accenture Russia
• PARTNER • PRINCIPAL
• Opportunity to growth
• Opportunity to develop professionally
services provided by Accenture • Opportunity to develop
in Russia services provided by Accenture
• Opportunity to operate in the in Russia
growing market • Opportunity to operate in the
growing market
• MANAGER • CONSULTANT
• Opportunity to growth • Opportunity to be promoted
professionally annually
• Opportunity to receive • Opportunity to operate in the
c
experience in the growing market growing market
• Opportunity to develop • Opportunity of secondment at
Accenture services in Russia Accenture world office
13. App.6 Personnel by years
Percentage of personnel groups in Total staff per year
182
200
2020 will be… 164
144
120 150
Partners 4,4%
97
Principals 4,3% 83
100
Managers 10,1% 60
Consultants (strategy) 47
8,2% 32 Total stuff per year
26 50
Consultants (operation) 57,7%
Researchers 4,4%
Support staff 10,8% 0
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Total
Other Consultants Consultants Support
Total staff consulting Partners Principals Managers Researchers
staff (strategy) (operation) staff
staff
Quantity per
x x x x 1 1 2 4 x x
project
Utilization x x x x 0,30 0,70 1,00 1,00 x x
2020 182 154 28 8 8 18 15 105 8 20
2019 164 138 26 8 7 16 13 93 7 19
2018 144 121 23 7 6 14 12 82 6 17
2017 120 98 22 7 5 11 9 65 6 16
2016 97 78 19 6 4 9 7 51 5 14
Year
2015 83 65 18 6 3 7 6 42 5 13
2014 60 44 16 5 2 5 4 28 4 12
2013 47 31 16 5 1 3 3 19 4 12
2012 32 17 15 4 1 2 1 9 3 12
2011 26 11 15 4 0 2 1 4 3 12