New Case Study Explores Using New Technologies to Support Human Interaction

The following is an excerpt from ATD Research’s latest case study, Accenture: Delivering High Touch Learning With High Tech Tools

In the Spring of 2016, 500 Accenture executives gathered at the company’s North American learning campus, the Q Center of St. Charles, Illinois, for the annual Managing Director School. The pinnacle event was a fireside chat that opened the floor to questions from participants. Sitting casually next to one another on stage in white swivel chairs, listening and responding to the questions were Accenture’s Chairman and CEO Pierre Nanterme and Chief Leadership and Human Resources Officer Ellyn Shook. 

Or were they?  

Actually, Nanterme never left Paris that day, and Shook stayed in New York. The assembly of leaders peppering them with questions in the outskirts of Chicago were talking to a pair of holograms. Nanterme and Shook were beamed from two Accenture studios where they could also hear and see their audience at the Q Center. 

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