"Accent" on Globalization

Global CEO: How Accenture's new CEO Pierre Nanterme wants to make the company truly global - The Economic Times: "Incorporated in Ireland, listed in the USA, Accenture is a truly global company. It has 220,000 employees spread across the world, of which 70,000 are Indian, as befits a consulting firm that's built its business on the twin planks of outsourcing and technology. This year, the firm added a cherry atop its globalization cake with the appointment of the Paris-based Pierre Nanterme as its CEO. Nanterme is as French as can be - he's the recipient of the Ordre National de la Legion D'honneur, the French equivalent of a knighthood - but he sees himself as quintessentially Accenture.

'As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore,' he declares. 'When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level, our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries. We are the only company of our size to do this and it is very cost-effective.'"