Accenture Announces Intent to Acquire Orlade Group for Capabilities for Energy

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Accenture has announced its intent to acquire French Orlade Group (“Orlade”), which provides advisory and project management services for capital projects through its subsidiaries, which include Op² and pmO. The acquisition would significantly expand Accenture’s capabilities to help clients optimise their investments in large-scale, long-term projects, such as nuclear power plants, power grids, rolling stock, defence systems and space launch systems.

Op²‘s services include advising clients on how they can organise and execute capital projects more successfully with lead time reduction expertise, key best practices for large-scale project management and predictive data-driven models. pmO’s project management processes and tools help clients deliver capital projects on time and on budget.

Orlade and its subsidiaries would bring approx. 200 professionals, most of which are based in Paris and Bordeaux. The company’s international locations include Montréal (Canada) and Brisbane (Australia). Their teams would join Accenture’s infrastructure and capital projects practice within Industry X.

Accenture’s planned acquisition would come at a time in which organisations developing capital projects are facing many challenges, ranging from increased scrutiny from stakeholders to supply chain issues to staffing shortages to cybersecurity risks. As a result, only 6% of organizations surveyed deliver projects on or ahead of schedule. Two-thirds miss their targets, adding an average of 29% in labor costs and penalty fees to the bill, research from Accenture shows.

Koen Deryckere, Accenture France & Benelux Market Unit Lead said, “This acquisition would strengthen our position in France and boost our ability to help clients reinvent how they plan and execute large-scale projects in the energy, utilities, rail, aerospace and defense sectors. It would enhance our capital project management expertise, from advisory to execution, and leverage advanced technologies like generative AI to drive large-scale, responsible transformation.”

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