Accenture’s Peter Burns tells Senate the documents identifying key decision-makers and influence leaders have been used to tender for work
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A consultancy firm that secured $528m of taxpayer money last year has admitted to maintaining hundreds of “power maps” that categorise federal officials based on influence, personality type and relationships with competitors.
Accenture has told the Senate the maps are restricted and only supplied to staff on a “need to know” basis, but acknowledged they were used in the process of bidding for government work.
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