Accenture Acquires Future State to Expand Change Management Capabilities
The multinational professional services company Accenture has announced the acquisition of Future State, a change management consulting firm headquartered in Oakland, CA. The 75-person team will become a part of the Accenture family by joining the Talent & Organization/Human Potential practice. It will add specialized expertise focused on agile business transformation.
The current developments of Future State — ideas and innovation in life sciences, CPG, technological industries, product development enablement, business growth, and post-merger integration — add new methodologies that expand Accenture’s existing C-suite offerings.
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“As the ongoing health, economic and social crises have demonstrated, disruption is constant and companies must adapt to thrive and grow,” said Eva Sage-Gavin, global lead for Accenture’s Talent & Organization / Human Potential practice. “By adding the experience and talent of Future State, Accenture is expanding its capabilities to help clients in their business transformation journeys as they navigate a rapidly changing world.”
Future State will complement Accenture’s recent Talent & Organization/Human Potential acquisition — Kates Kesler in 2020 — that aims to expand client offerings and create new ways to deliver value with a deep understanding of client needs and market challenges.
“The clients we work with are changing the world, and that kind of innovation doesn’t happen using standard models, nor does it happen by standing still,” said Shannon Adkins CEO of Future State, a woman-led, woman-owned business. “Joining Accenture enables us to scale our value proposition by unleashing the unique talents of our design-thinkers and design-doers to help more clients pursue their extraordinary visions that aim to positively impact the world.”
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For the last four decades, Future State has been helping some of the world’s leading life sciences and technology companies with the change management expertise they require to thrive, particularly during times of disruption. As a certified B Corp, the firm is also widely recognized for its commitment to corporate social responsibility and was selected by B Lab as a “Best for the World Changemaker” honoree in 2019.
Additionally, Accenture also announced the acquisition of Imaginea to accelerate cloud-native product and platform engineering services. The acquisition adds approximately 1,350 cloud professionals to Accenture, bringing a highly-skilled, cloud-native, full-stack engineering team with cloud data and cloud modernization skills across multiple platforms from Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
And at the end of January, Accenture and Salesforce announced the expansion of the partnership to help companies embed sustainability into the core of their business. The powerful combination of Accenture’s Sustainability Services, Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, and Salesforce Customer 360 will, for the first time, bring sustainability to the front office and provide the C-suite with true visibility into their company’s historical and real-time environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data.
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