Accenture Expanding Consultants Numbers

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

03.19.07, 1:24 PM ET

Consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture Ltd. said Monday it plans to nearly double the number of management consultants globally in the next three years.

The company currently has about 13,000 management consultants and plans to add more in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, India, China and Brazil.

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/03/19/ap3529759.html

[OhioChick]

1. Having problems here....

Article not showing. I go back in to edit the story, link, etc. are all there.......but will not show when updated. :shrug:

on edit: Working now. :shrug:

[Double T]

2. So many MORE american jobs that need outsourcing...........

so little time..... and traitorous consultants. Tiger Woods......YOU'RE NEXT!!!!

[OhioChick]

3. Probably be 2 jobs

created in the US to oversee the consultants from other countries.

[onehandle]

4. Accenture: A Foreign Company. - Lou Dobbs.

Accenture CEO several years ago: "Our main business is now outsourcing."

Tax dodging, Bush sucking, American job killers.

[OhioChick]

5. Yep.

Accenture’s India headcount to hit 35,000

"The tipping point has arrived. For the first time, a major Western outsourcer will have more employees working in India than in the United States."

http://www.indusbusinessjournal.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=DCD24449788B45789239487FCED4924E

[SayitAintSo]

6. These are former Anderson Consulting folks - Can you say ENRON ? ?.

Hope thier integrity index has improved. Having worked with many of the guys in the past I hold no great hope in seeing thier number improve....

[OhioChick]

7. Hello India!

Accenture set to increase workforce
< 21 Mar, 2007 0008hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES >

NEW DELHI: The Bermuda-based consultancy firm Accenture Ltd on Tuesday said that it has plans to raise the headcount of its management consultants in India to 2,000 from 500 in the course of next 16 months.

"India has a talented work force with strong intellectual and research and development capabilities that can benefit Accenture clients around the world,"Mark Foster, Accenture's group chief executive of business consulting and integrated markets said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India_Business/Accenture_set_to_increase_workforce/articleshow/1785612.cms