EDITORIAL: Accenture is sinking, but let's see whether it can start swimming
Source: Austin American Statesman (TX), Friday, July 21, 2006
It's too soon to terminate the state's deeply troubled human services contract with the consulting firm Accenture, as a bipartisan group of 60 state lawmakers wants to do. But the experience with Accenture so far suggests that taxpayers ought to grab hold of their wallets the next time politicians and lobbyists start ballyhooing the alleged efficiency of the private sector over a state agency.