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Companies expanding into emerging markets during the economic upturn may find that consumers there more readily quit doing business with a company because of poor service than consumers in mature markets, according to findings in the fifth annual Accenture consumer service study .

INNOVATE: Sam Pitroda , Advisor to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, and Bill Green, Chairman & CEO, Accenture, at a conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.

William D Green, chairman and chief executive officer of Accenture, said on the sidelines of the ongoing India Economic Summit, organised by the World Economic Forum in partnership with the CII.

The One Minute Manager ? Who's ever heard of The One Minute Surgeon or The One Minute Trial Lawyer? Can you become a company-certified manager after reading a book or "graduating" from a three-day class? Is it really that easy, or are we kidding ourselves? It's no surprise that hard research confirms that today's management development approaches ...

The World Economic Forum will hold its three-day India Economic Summit here from Sunday, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the key speaker, to mark 25 years of active engagement between the Davos-based organisation and India.

With all the volatility in the markets today, there's no shortage of market seers trying to call a bottom.

Back in July, I questioned the upbeat outlook offered by management of Indian IT services outsourcer Wipro , especially considering the then-cautious tone of competitors Infosys and Tata Consultancy .

Accenture today launched the Accenture Innovation Center for Health in response to the growing global demand for insights into and strategies to confront the top health issues and challenges affecting citizens worldwide.

Some companies are obviously great investments -- in hindsight. Yet for every stock out there screaming " buy me ," others simply give us a nudge and a nod.

In the last year, many analysts and investors have focused on China as the driver for global economic recovery.

Remember how cloud computing was supposed to kill client/server? Turns out it's more of a wedding than a funeral.

Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks that callers offered up during the "Mad Money Lightning Round" Wednesday evening.

NEW YORK & REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- -- Accenture and Adchemy, the pioneer of audience relationship management , have formed a global alliance to help large companies and their agency partners build more effective digital experiences with their customers.

Accenture will provide Nokia Siemens Networks with IT application management services under a three-year agreement.

Technology bellwether IBM's second-quarter results, reported on Thursday after the market close, demonstrate that the company is feeling few ill effects from a sickly global environment.

Utility smart grid systems have a lot of technologies both cutting-edge and decades-old ones that need to be integrated for those systems to work.

Accenture has completed its acquisition of the professional services unit of Nokia responsible for providing engineering and support of the Symbian operating system to mobile device manufacturers and service providers.

Pfizer is now a more diversified health... MILAN-- --Accenture will help Fiat Item, a subsidiary of the Fiat Group, consolidate its information and communications technology operations under a multi-year applica... LONDON-- --FORM 8.3 DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR MORE 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of person dealing ...

Companies are gathering information at a mind-numbing pace. Business analytics can help them make sense of that information, use it in more lucrative ways, and optimize business processes.

In everything from sluggish top-line growth to increased government regulation, the recession has handed the corporate world a barrelful of lemons.