The Accenture-MIT Partnership: A Formula for Success
When: Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 : 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Learn how Accenture improved the capability of its technology workforce, reduced turnover and improved employee engagement through its partnership with MIT. The Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy that the partnership created is open to 30,000 employees within Accenture’s Information Technology workforce. The Accenture/MIT partnership not only enables Accenture to deliver consistent services throughout the world, but the MIT involvement also lends additional credibility to Accenture’s training in the eyes of this workforce and further emphasizes Accenture’s commitment to continuous learning.
The slides presented at this meeting as well as a video recording of the presentation itself are now available for members. Please see the links below.
Presentation Slides 
(Adobe PDF Format)
Video Recording (requires Adobe Flash Player)
Presenters:
Eric Buhrfeind, Senior Executive, currently serves as Accenture’s Global Director of Compensation and is the co-sponsor of the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy, an internal certification program for Accenture’s Solutions Workforce. Eric has been with Accenture for 17 years and has held various positions, including Global HR Leader for Accenture Technology Solutions, Resource Management Lead for Latin America, and earlier in his career served in client facing roles in Accenture’s consulting practice. Eric resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife and two children.
Allison Horn currently serves as the Team Lead for Accenture’s Certification Center of Expertise and the overall Program Manager for the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy. Allison has been with Accenture for 10 years. Her prior roles include 5 years in Accenture’s Change Management consulting practice and various other internal capability development focused roles.
Dawna is currently the Associate Director of Academic Programs for MIT Professional Education. In this role, Dawna manages the Advanced Study Program, the Career Reengineering Program, and the Accenture Solutions Delivery Academy collaboration with MIT. Dawna joined MIT a little over a year and a half ago, after spending 18 years with Accenture’s Utilities practice. Dawna has both a bachelors and masters degree in Management Science from MIT.
John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology, Sloan School of Management & Professor of Engineering Systems, School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Stuart Madnick has been a faculty member at M.I.T. since 1972. He has served as the head of MIT's Information Technologies Group for more than twenty years. During that time the group has been consistently rated #1 in the nation among business school information technology programs (U.S. News & World Reports, BusinessWeek, and ComputerWorld). He has also been an affiliate member of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, a member of the research advisory committee of the International Financial Services Research Center, and a member of the executive committee of the Center for Information Systems Research.
Dr. Madnick is a prolific writer and is the author or co-author of over 250 books, articles, or reports including the classic textbook, Operating Systems (McGraw-Hill), and the book, The Dynamics of Software Development (Prentice-Hall). He has also contributed chapters to other books, such as Information Technology in Action (Prentice-Hall).