Accenture has strong connections with CXOs at major companies and is well-versed in their management agendas, leveraging these strengths to shape the future.
We spoke to Karasawa Hosho, Managing Director of the Strategy Group in the Business Consulting Division at Accenture, who has a strong track record of providing support in fields such as entertainment, media, telecommunications carriers, and high tech, about the yet-to-be-seen future of widespread technology.
May I ask you about your career path that led to where you are today?
Hosho Karasawa (hereinafter, Karasawa): For the past decade or so, I have focused on emerging technologies, putting effort into strategy planning and launching new businesses.
In the past, I have been working on cloud, IoT, and 5G, but recently I have also been working on spatial computing, AI, and generative AI. I started working on Web 3.0 and blockchain two or three years ago.
You are currently focusing on Web 3.0, but looking back at Accenture, what kind of services does it provide in general?
Karasawa: My main job is strategic consulting, so I often start by talking to CXOs of large companies and answering questions like, "What is Web 3.0?", "What impact will it have on the industry?", "How should your company approach it?", and "Why now?".
For companies that have further along in their consideration, we sometimes provide strategic-level support such as formulating business concepts and medium-term management plans, and for companies that have a strategy but haven't decided on service specifications, we sometimes create specific service designs.
We also sometimes work with other groups to actually create things, or take on the operation of systems and operations.
As we provide end-to-end support like this, we sometimes go a step further and consider starting a joint business with our customers.