Michael Higgins

Role: Strategy Principal Director at Accenture
Location: Austin, TX, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Michael Higgins

Accomplished Strategy Principal Director who partners with utility client executives to…

Experience

Strategy Principal Director
Accenture
Jun 2013 — Present
Strategy Principal Director in Accenture\'s Utilities Strategy practice, responsible for providing strategic consulting services to C-Suite, VP, and Director level utility clients enabling them to identify and strategize grid modernization opportunities. Project Highlights: • Developed analytics strategy for a Top 10 US utility client identifying, valuing, prioritizing, and roadmapping 30+ initiatives providing $26M in annual benefits including increased revenues, decreased expenditures, and improved customer satisfaction • Refreshed and enhanced Top 10 US utility client’s business case model for Distribution Automation identifying nearly $1B in utility and customer benefits as well as a ~30% improvement in non-financial customer reliability benefits (SAIDI) • Designed a strategic cost reduction program for a Top 10 US utility client identifying 22 cost-optimization opportunities with over $200M in projected annual savings • Led growth strategy workstream for an energy client’s expansion into new markets identifying multiple $5B+ revenue opportunities within renewable power generation, microgrid development, and sustainability • Drove development of a Top 10 US energy client’s operating model transformation identifying 25 strategic opportunities freeing up 20% of the workforce, eliminating 7% of OPEX, and projecting nearly ~$1B in annual revenue uplift • Built an economic model and investment framework for a Top 10 US utility client’s multi-billion-dollar solar investment analyzing costs and benefits across various scenario options • Championed Accenture’s NA Utilities Strategy practice by leading business development efforts, taking active roles in mentorship and recruiting, and developing thought leadership materials highlighting the company’s POV on market trends Progression: Strategy Principal Director (2022 - Present) Strategy Senior Principal (20••••22) Strategy Senior Manager (20••••21) Strategy Manager (20••••19) Strategy Consultant (20••••16)

Skills

Value Realization
Mergers & Acquisitions
Due Diligence
Microsoft Excel
Management Consulting
Entrepreneurship
Excel
Portfolio Management
Business Case Modelling
Market Analysis
Analytics
Financial Modeling
Business Planning
Private Equity
Start-Ups
Forecasting
Venture Capital
Finance
Business Strategy
Consulting
Patents
Analysis
Intellectual Property
Financial Analysis
Market Research
Strategic Planning
Investments
Marketing Strategy
Business Development
Teamwork
Mergers
Negotiation
Marketing
Valuation
Management
Strategy
Competitive Analysis
Team Leadership
Competitive Intelligence
New Business Development

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Current company

Accenture

Business Consulting and Services · 10K employees · Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, IE

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone else's copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.

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