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ACCENTURE Highlights
Why Accenture gets involved Accenture aims "to get the best people in our ranks" and values the chance to engage directly with them directly via the GMC. The matching process ensures that Accenture is brought into contact with the most relevant students, facilitating an innovative direct recruitment channel. It typically provides two training sessions for the teams it is sponsoring, and views the competition as an important pre-selection mechanism. Accenture sees the GMC as a key part of building its campus brand, and raising awareness of its graduate scheme. It values the public exposure, and by investing in the leaders and managers of tomorrow, sees the GMC as a good project within its corporate social responsibility strategy. The university contacts Accenture has built up has enabled the company to influence the curriculum in certain areas, helping to ensure students have the right skills when they graduate. Networking with other sponsors and supporters at the GMC is invaluable, particularly in helping the company foster relations with Expresso newspaper, “the most important newspaper in Portugal”. It sees the other sponsors as the major players in each industry sector, and as potential customers for Accenture. To make a contribution to the education and integration of young people in the business world are the reasons for Staples Office Centre to only support teams of students in the Global Management Challenge 2007.
Carlos Maia, Portuguese General Manager of Staples, says:” these teams may generate an excellent source from which to recruit talented students”
In his opinion, this competition, allows students to compete, to learn and to take business decisions, with vision, analysis, cooperation, risk and market knowledge. “To become a leader you have to know how to compete and innovate”.
“To achieve excellence one has to know and understand their customers and to respect their competitors. “ These are competences that future leaders must possess and those demonstrating the competences may join Staples”, declares Carlos Maia.
For this Staples executive, this competition, portrays the modern values and fundamentals of global management that are: leadership, excellence, speed, innovation and differentiation.
“We are delighted to sponsor this initiative, since we see in ourselves targeting the achievement of these values”.
MICROSOFT Portugal Microsoft keeps investing in student teams According to Nuno Duarte, Portuguese General Manager of Microsoft, “we provide support to a major competition such as the Global Management Challenge, which is associated with encouraging an integrated policy of work and support to the different sectors of our community. One the one hand for the enterprises themselves and on the other hand the academic and educational sectors, covering both teachers and also the students - especially those in their final stages of education. We consider the participation in this competition a significant added value for the development of practical management skills, not often available during the years of study. We are sure that this experience will not be easily forgotten and as a company we are attentive, evaluating continuously the niche market of talents, since we continue our strategy of expansion in Portugal.” As for the value of the Global Management Challenge to the participants his insight is “to determine technical competencies and a series of “soft skills” which are not easy to teach during the formal academic courses. Most of the time it is only during their professional life that they can actually practise and develop expertise in: team spirit, problem solving under pressure, capacity to prioritize, use of common sense, competitiveness, etc.” While for Nuno Duarte, sponsoring this competition and the teams taking part “will strengthen our strategy of reaching the segment of Education in general and the Academies in particular. In addition, we believe that management, like other sciences, only makes progress if they are “People Ready”, which means oriented to the people, since people are the differentiator in the organizations. Because of that, if with our support we contribute to ‘humanize’ management, we will have at least have achieved one major objective.” |