Creating a Culture of Innovation

Solving the business problems that matter most to our clients is, of course, the essence of what Accenture does. And it’s through innovation and inventiveness that we continue to create solutions that can really move the needle for clients’ business performance. Because we work in such a fast-paced and rapidly evolving world, sometimes it’s important to pause and formally recognize people’s achievements. And that’s the purpose of our Inventor Day for the Accenture Technology business here in North America.

Inventor Day

Every year, our people develop a host of novel ideas that qualify for patenting. To date, Accenture has more than 8,200 patents and patents pending worldwide. We celebrate those unique ideas – and the innovation mindset that enables them – through our Inventor Award Program, which recognizes and rewards our employees. This year, in addition to that recognition, we also held an Inventor Day that celebrates people in the North America Accenture Technology business who have received one or more patents during the last 12 months.

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Diverse teams, diverse innovation

The aim of the Inventor Day was to, first and foremost, acknowledge our people’s incredible inventiveness. But it was also an opportunity to share stories and for others to hear about the great work that their colleagues have been doing over the last 12 months. Sharing and collaboration are vital elements of Accenture’s innovation culture – above all, innovation is a team sport – and seeing the creativity taking place across our business helps to spark inspiration in other teams working on their own challenges.

From AI to quantum and beyond

The range of innovation that our FY21 patents covered is extraordinary. We have seen novel developments in robotics, blockchain, quantum, cybersecurity, extended reality, artificial intelligence, cloud, digital assistants, biometrics, and IoT. Accenture’s innovation makes a real difference to our clients and advances our corporate citizenship priorities. I am especially proud of how our culture of innovation pervades our business – we see that in the broad career range distribution of new ideas considered for a patent.?These breakthrough innovations come from people working at all stages of their careers.

Innovating for our clients

We see the innovation that produces leading-edge ideas and technologies as a source of competitive advantage for ourselves and, above all, for our clients. Our innovation experts work with clients across the world to imagine their future. We build innovative business strategies and technology solutions with them. And then we scale those solutions to sustain innovation. The investments we make in research and development are helping clients address the new realities they face in a fast-changing marketplace and to face their future with confidence.

With the success of our Accenture Technology NA Inventor Day, we will make this annual event to celebrate our people’s creativity and the drive they have to solve our clients’ hardest technical challenges. I look forward to reporting back next year! Thanks for reading.