Accenture shoves out talented people all the time when they are not meeting their CCI number and under constant pressure from Jo Deblaere and his cost cutting goons to take heads out and put them in India or BA. Then promise of world class development and working with top talent just isn't so. Newcomers from top firms find themselves quickly in shock when they find out that they have no talented team as they were all off-shored.
What they do have to work with are armies and armies of entry level, undeveloped staff from BA and India that are often not specialized and are looking to receive orders, policy, constant direction, and can rarely stand alone and lead - not all but most. This impacts every aspect of success at achieving objectives and sadly the clients have to pay for this stupidity in their bills. It takes 10 times the productivity to accomplish what used to be accomplished with experienced, talented people.
Often, objectives have to diplomatically change in order to meet a lowered standard of capability - let me repeat - A LOWER STANDARD OF CAPABILITY. The Jo Goons don't care as long as they get their heads. Innovation to them = heads out and nothing more. Doesn't matter how they do it as long as almost nothing is spent and the heads are off the books by said quarter.
Then no one can say anything bad about it because of the politics and the culture of cost savings over all.
St Charles is not a world class training organization and the 1 week Sr Manger Training and now Performance management training IS NOT a talent attractor. Although it's good that Accenture is finally conducting training on performance management, they are about 20 years behind in doing this so again, not world class.
Accenture will not sustain the use of Marketing to PR their way out of the truth. They are doing well now as all of the economy is up but one day the hood will be lifted and it's going to get harder and harder for Accenture to attract and keep top talent when it all keeps getting diluted in the name of COST COST COST over all. We spend millions to save pennies and the only thing that will be left at Accenture are aging boomers, very Junior Off-shore people that don't know how to do too much, and entry level Gen M's that were unaware of the reality and who leave as fast as they come.
The X'ers will all be gone because they keep coming after the Sr Managers, especially those that have been waiting in line for promotions for years, left for dead and certainly little investment in their future.