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Passionate Practice

  1. Re:thinking accountancy
  2. Being passionate about client service
  3. Embedding innovative thinking
  4. Exploring creative thinking tools
  5. Creating a WOW! experience for clients
  6. Exploring new ways of working
  7. Cross-pollinating ideas
  8. Applying visual thinking
  9. Making cool stuff (services)
  10. Asking the BIG WHY?  Always
  11. Presentation bullet-point dodging
  12. Leadership skills – a brand called YOU?
  13. Improv tools for a fast changing business world
  14. ‘Playing together nicely’ aka utilising collaboration tools
  15. Re:thinking professional roles and structure
  16. Identifying new services aka blue oceans
  17. PUTTING PASSION INTO PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANCY SERVICES!Reblog this post [with Zemanta]
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Future Face of Accountancy

Here are 7 potential changes on the horizon for the accountancy profession driven by changing markets:

  1. Speed to market becomes even more important.  Innovate; deliver cool services to clients then innovate some more.
  2. Deepening specialisms.  Experts rule and become highly marketable.
  3. Death of timesheets and time-based billing.  (Good riddance.)
  4. Hub and spoke accountancy firms emerge.  Hub consisting of core senior team who win the work.  Spokes are outsourced highly specialist professionals drawn together on a project by project basis to deliver the project.  The best become even more sought after and command premium rates – ref point 2 above.
  5. A move away from process driven compliance work toward more bespoke consulting projects.
  6. Importance of Firm brand name slips in prominence as star or thought-leader individual accountants utilise online channels to demonstrate their expertise and boost their individual brand.
  7. Authenticity prevails – larger firms threatened with losing credibility in favour of smaller niche practices and individual star performers who can demonstrate relevance to specific sectors and build communities, create cool services and innovate faster.

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How to become a BIG IDEAS accountant?

24 November 2009
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Businesses are increasingly putting innovation at the top of the business growth agenda.  This puts increased pressure on accountants to become more innovative in their approach and thinking. But how is this possible when the accountancy profession is so hard-wired toward left brain process driven, analytical thinking? The good news is that anyone can become a BIG [...]

Develop a Traveller Mindset in your Office

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How can you spot new break-through opportunities or areas for improvement within your office or department? Developing a traveller mindset within your office may hold the key… Remember the last time you went somewhere new – perhaps on holiday, on a business trip or simply to the other side of town?  Recall how you felt.  [...]