Infrastructure Investment in Growth Markets

Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, provides expertise across all industries and business functions from corporations to local governments. The company’s Growth and Strategy unit, an internal strategy team, asked the Capstone group to identify business opportunities in the transportation infrastructure space in four growth markets: (1) Australia (2) Brazil (3) India and (4) South Africa.

In doing so, the Capstone workshop team provided market insights on the economic, political and infrastructure context in each country. The team also conducted a value chain analysis to identify the financing and bidding processes, projected infrastructure spend, key players involved and based the recommendations on these criteria. 

Given the variety of case studies and diversity among markets, each project touched upon a few key themes referenced below:

Governments Need Assistance:

Multi-billion dollar transportation projects in these growth markets require involvement from multiple stakeholders:

• Conducting feasibility studies
• Executing government mandates
• Collecting bids and creating consortiums
• Financing through Public-Private Partnerships

Project Management:

• Performance monitoring
• Impact evaluations
• Adherence to timelines
• Budget management

Need for Integration:

• Extensive Network Integration needed
• Standardizing signaling and other technological components