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V. Rishi Kumar

From 1,000 to 16,500 in 3 years

Hyderabad , June 18

, For Accenture, the last 36 months in India have been extremely eventful, with the IT services provider adding about 16,500 people as on February 2006, from barely 1,000 prior to that.

The $15.5 billion IT services major expects to increase this number by approximately 9,000 this year. The Lead Executiveof Accenture Delivery Centre for Technology in India, Mr Sandeep Arora, said, "At Accenture, we have set a long-term plan of growing the headcount in the region,including India and China, to 50,000 people by 2008. We have 24,000 people; of them 17,500 are based in India."

Mr Arora, who was associated with setting up the Hyderabad delivery centre which is amongst the Accenture's three largest centres in the country, is here to celebrate the third anniversary.

He said, " It is time to party and scale up the value chain and expand the scope of work. Accenture has added automotive and industrial equipment practice, which accounts for a large chunk of its global revenues."

Accenture now has 42 delivery centres across the globe, which includes two of its recent additions, one at Pune and the other at Warsaw, a BPO centre. The company headcount in India is close to 13.5 per cent of its global workforce.

Significantly, India has emerged as a hub for some of its latest innovations — these include new quality processes, where Indian leaders would guide global deployments. And, more importantly the company is grooming leaders from India for global operations. For instance, the HR head here would now be part of the human capital management team for global operations.

The growing importance of India and the region for Accenture can be gauged from the fact that in India Accenture works for seven of the top 10 business groups, and six of the top 10 companies based on sales. Accenture helps enterprises in their business transformation.

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