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- Accenture and OpenAI have announced a new partnership.
- The deal will bring ChatGPT Enterprise to tens of thousands of Accenture employees.
- AI transformation work is becoming increasingly common in the consulting industry.
Consulting giant Accenture is partnering with OpenAI to put ChatGPT Enterprise into the hands of tens of thousands of its employees.
Employees will start using ChatGPT Enterprise across consulting, operations, and delivery work, while the partnership will help OpenAI scale its capabilities to enterprises.
AI is rapidly changing the type of work that consulting firms like Accenture perform for clients. Rather than strategy advisors, consultants are increasingly becoming long-term transformation partners for companies, providing advice but also building the tools that companies need to maximize on AI.
Julie Sweet, Accenture’s CEO, said the deal with OpenAI will “accelerate enterprise reinvention and business outcomes for our clients.”
Accenture will also have the largest number of professionals upskilled through OpenAI Certifications, OpenAI said in a press release on Monday.
As well as reshaping the way firms work, AI is changing the talent landscape within the top firms. In a September earnings call, Sweet said that Accenture has been “exiting” staff that the company cannot reskill for the AI era.
On Monday, the two companies also announced plans to launch a “flagship AI client program,” combining OpenAI’s products with Accenture’s “AI expertise and industry and function domain knowledge.”
The program will be used to help clients adopt AI in real business workflows, OpenAI said in a press release.
Its goal is “to enable joint clients to adopt OpenAI’s agentic capabilities faster and with deeper integration across their organizations,” OpenAI said.
