How are they still in business?

I’ve either been involved with or adjacent to dozens of Accenture projects at 5 companies over the last 20 years, and not a single one had a satisfactory outcome.

I’ve never heard a single story of “Accenture came in, and we got what we wanted, on time and on budget.” Cases of “we got a minimum viable solution for $100m instead of $30m, and it was four years late” seem more typical.

Just like IBM, they are big enough that no one ever got fired for buying them.

I've also found they do a good job of getting cadre of executives that float between companies hiring them when they move between companies while they get wined and dined.

It's just that they're only seeing money to build and a place to make excuses on being late.

If you hire your own people you can make them feel how well the business is doing and get features out the door tomorrow and build to the larger thing over time.