Strategic Partnership with Accenture For Accelerating VOIS Commercialisation

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Strategic Partnership with Accenture For Accelerating VOIS Commercialisation

Leadership

Strategic Partnership with Accenture For Accelerating VOIS Commercialisation

01 APR, 2024

Business

Leadership

Partnership

Commercialisation

Market

Global

SERVICE LINE

VOIS

IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD

2023

KEYWORDS

VOIS commercialisation, Vodafone and Accenture Partnership

SPIRIT BEHAVIOURS

Create the Future

Turning Operational Excellence into a Growth Platform

Leadership

| 23 Apr, 2026

Tools Don’t Drive Maximum Outcomes, People Do

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| 16 APR, 2026

How We Turn Transformation Investment into Outcomes

The Expectations

This strategic partnership will build on Vodafone’s market leading shared services unit, Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS), to create a scaled, commercially driven, and more efficient organization with high quality services and enhanced speed to market for its portfolio of offerings.
Under this new model for the industry, Vodafone will retain majority interest, management control, and sourcing decisions.
The new unit will utilize Accenture’s technology and transformation services such as digital solutions and platforms, and deep AI expertise. It will also tap into Accenture’s well-known learning capabilities for creating new skilling and career paths for its people.

What The Leaders Spoke About This Partnership

Margherita Della Valle, Group CEO, Vodafone said, “Today’s announcement is a significant development for Vodafone as we change and simplify the way we work to better serve our customers and drive growth. The partnership with Accenture opens up new opportunities for our company and our people. We’re excited about the potential of our new commercial shared services organisation and the potential to serve not only Vodafone’s own markets but our Telco partners across the industry.”
Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture said, “We are proud to have partnered with Vodafone for over 20 years across many strategic programs. We are excited to take our partnership to a new level with this ground-breaking joint venture that will help power Vodafone’s reinvention and create significant value for their operating companies, partner markets and employees. This move speaks to their ambition to work in entirely new ways, reduce structural complexity, open avenues for growth, create better experiences for their customers, and provide additional career paths for their people.”
By leveraging the brands, investments, scale, strengths, and expertise of both companies, the strategic partnership will build on over a decade of high-performance expansion and will empower Vodafone’s transformation by creating a more agile and efficient organisation that will enable its strategy to focus on customers, simplicity, and growth. Vodafone and Accenture have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, and the strategic partnership is subject to the completion of the definitive agreements, which are expected to be completed in the Spring of 2024.
The partnership will commit to delivering best-in-class service levels and innovation to Vodafone Group through a long-term agreement, demonstrating the deep partnership commitment between Accenture and Vodafone and the comprehensive services portfolio that the new organisation will be able to offer.