{"id":1017686,"date":"2026-06-30T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017686"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:17:55","slug":"mergers-and-acquisitions-to-be-its-next-growth-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/mergers-and-acquisitions-to-be-its-next-growth-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Mergers and acquisitions to be IT\u2019s next growth play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As aI reshapes the global IT services industry, acquisitions are emerging as the fastest route to growth. With enterprises tightening discretionary technology spending and AI reducing demand for people-intensive services, companies are increasingly buying specialised capabilities instead of building them organically. <\/p>\n<p>Global consulting giant Accenture\u2019s decision to raise its acquisition budget for FY26 to about $9 billion from an earlier target of $5 billion reflects that shift. The company expects deals already announced to contribute nearly 2% of its FY27 revenue, underscoring the growing role of inorganic growth in its business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As aI reshapes the global IT services industry, acquisitions are emerging as the fastest route to growth. With enterprises tightening discretionary technology spending and AI reducing demand for people-intensive services, companies are increasingly buying specialised capabilities instead of building them organically. Global consulting giant Accenture\u2019s decision to raise its acquisition budget for FY26 to about $9 billion from an earlier target of $5 billion reflects that shift. The company expects deals already announced to contribute nearly 2% of its FY27 revenue, underscoring the growing role of inorganic growth in its business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017706,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017686\/revisions\/1017706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}