Search Jobs | Other News | Global Careers January 2009 Feature Article Accenture Chairman & CEO Bill Green brainstorms with fellow CEOs on key priorities for Obama administration Accenture Chairman & CEO Bill Green has long advocated higher education as a means to build and maintain a competitive U.S. workforce in today's global economy - advice that is now landing at the doorstep of the White House and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. Accenture at Work Leading Financial Services Group: Optimizing IT Investment Accenture worked with a leading financial services company to streamline its IT investment portfolio as part of a program to integrate and simplify its operations to achieve high performance. People and Places Accenture consultant Werner Unterhofer brews native tea - and a new business strategy - for Ecuador mission Werner Unterhofer, a consultant with Management Consulting & Integrated Markets, saved up his vacation time to spend four months with Santa Maria del Fiat, a local Christian mission. Applying his Accenture skills, he worked to create a business based on cultivating, marketing and distributing tea made from chaya, a native plant. News and Views Accenture Italian Foundation develops NavigAbile software as powerful tool for disabled persons An Accenture Italian Foundation project is impacting the lives of people with communication and relationship disabilities, helping them adapt the Internet as a tool for social interaction and learning. The Accenture Italian Foundation developed NavigAbile web software architecture as an innovative tool for people with communicational disabilities to enable access and control of Web content. Search Jobs Search opportunities and submit your resume Make sure you continue to receive this newsletter Add our "From" address accenturecareernews@accenture.com to your address book. Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Contact Us Accenture is committed to maintaining your privacy, and we want you to understand how we use your data. Accenture holds your contact information on our global systems, and may use this information to communicate with you via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone about our services and activities that may be of interest to you. Your information will be used in accordance with applicable data privacy laws, and we strive to keep it secure. Accenture will not share your personal information with any third party, except as needed to manage the events or features for which you register. You have a right to access your information and to correct it at any time by contacting us. Please review our privacy statement for additional information. In order to improve our services and provide better content, Accenture may keep track of patterns of use in the e-mails and e-mail newsletters we send. In most cases, this information will be used in aggregate form, but sometimes personally identifiable information will be shared within Accenture with specific program owners only for the limited purposes described above. Thank you. Accenture, Internet Marketing, 161 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60601 USA © 1996-2009 Accenture All Rights Reserved