case study on Virtual Management at Accenture

Respected sir,
I am a Piyush Patel,
Roll No :23,
Case study on  Virtual Management at Accenture

Summary of the case

Accenture is a Global consulting service and outsourcing firm with over 1,29,000 employees serve clients in 48 different countries . it has no operational headquaters and operational branches.Managers are uses E-mail, phone,the web and another information technologyies to manage virtually,often while they are travelling themselves.
when a new consultant is hired, Accenture's system automatically sets up an e-mail account and instructions on where to pick up a laptop.

Questions and Answers  are as follow:

Que..1 What are the advantages of working in a virtual enviornment like the one created by Accenture ? What are the disadvantages?
The Advantages are as follows:
(1) No time constraints
(2) Flexible working condition
(3) We can work in any location of world becoz no location constraints.
(4) freedom of work
(5) We can save our trasportation cost
      e.g if i will work in hdfc bank or any others org which is not have a virtual enviornment so i have to            go at work place by any convyence(vechicle) so it consume cost while in accenture we can work from any wher.

Disadvantages are as follows:
(1) we can not give our maximum time for our work so it may not result in our good performance
(2) it required IT knowledge
(3) No formal working structure


Que..2 Would like to work in a company like Accenture? why or why not ? explain your answers.

    yes ,I like to work in a accenture because it has reputed company in all over the world so work   in accenture it automatically increase my status in society . working in accenture required good knowledge in IT and skill so i have to cope with it so encourages me to work hard for my personal development.and i also like to work with accenture because i dont like to work in time constraints so here i get flexible work time.

Que..3 What kinds of companies could benefit from being run virtually like accenture? could all companies be run virtually like accenture?


A soft ware compay or IT solution company who work globally and also company like Dell etc benefit from being run virtually like accenture . by this way they can reduce construction cost,hired employees from any country for e,g.if its work in india so it can hire indian employee which can communicate with indian customer in their regional languagges.

No all compnies be not run virtually like accenture.
E,g. videocon who manufactured colour picture tube etc so all company who manufactured product its required to has plant , machinary and building etc...