Consulting firm Accenture has been on a shopping spree recently, buying two very different service businesses. Carbon Intelligence, (the climate change strategy consultancy) as well as Sentia which provides cloud advisory and delivery services in Netherlands, Belgium, and Bulgaria.
It seems to be a strategy to acquire talent as they added >160 professionals from Carbon Intelligence (data scientists, consultants, and sustainability experts) and >300 cloud specialists with the acquisition of Sentia. Perhaps this is the new way companies will acquire and keep talent in the future, rather than methodically through recruitment, but mass purchase of businesses.