安盛咨詢公司更名為埃森哲（2001年）

????安盛咨詢公司（Andersen Consulting）更名為埃森哲咨詢公司（Accenture）最初反應不佳，但最終證明是一招好棋。隨著安盛咨詢公司從安達信會計事務所（Arthur Andersen）獨立出來，公司不得不更名。2001年，仍有不少批評意見認為公司新名字是自己生搬硬套的，因為來自挪威的高級經理認為這個名字代表著“重視未來”（accent on the future）。金融服務公司羅伯特貝爾德公司（Robert W. Baird）的研究分析師戴維?科寧認為，這個稀奇古怪的名字倒是與公司情況很匹配。

????他補充說：“很多現在耳熟能詳的詞語20多年前都是不存在的，而它們現在卻處在技術創新的核心，恰好遂了埃森哲公司的心愿?！?/p>

????2002年，安達信會計事務所因涉嫌湮滅安然公司丑聞相關文件證據而被判妨礙司法，讓公司名聲蒙羞。（相關罪名于2005年被撤銷。）此時，安盛咨詢公司已經獨立安達信之外，成為獨立法律個體，埃森哲公司適時地變更了公司名稱，也逃過了安達信丑聞帶來的“品牌毀滅”災難，科寧補充道。

Andersen Consulting To Accenture (2001)

????Andersen Consulting's evolution to Accenture was initially received poorly, but in the end proved to be a smart move. After the consulting business separated itself from the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, the company was forced to change its name. In 2001, many criticized the firm for making up a new word for its name; a senior manager from Norway came up with it by thinking of an "accent on the future." But having an eccentric title was fitting to the company's profile, said David Koning, a research analyst for the financial services firm Robert W. Baird.

????"There are a lot of well-known words that probably weren't around 20 years ago, and they are now right at the heart of technology changes, just like Accenture wants to be," he added.

????In 2002, Arthur Andersen was found guilty of obstructing justice after destroying documents affiliated with the Enron scandal, tarnishing the name forever. (The conviction was overturned in 2005.) Andersen Consulting was a separate legal entity from Arthur Andersen, but Accenture's timely name changed allowed the firm to escape Andersen's "brand destruction," Koning added.