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The groups in which our Consultants work are structured to suit our clients and the marketplace, and this directly affects your career development.

Operating Groups

We deliver our services and solutions through Operating Groups. These groups are:

Each group focuses on particular industries in the Canadian marketplace. As your career progresses, you are likely to become highly knowledgeable and experienced in one industry.

Growth Platforms

The services and solutions we offer fall into three categories: Management Consulting, Systems Integration & Technology Consulting and Outsourcing. We call these three categories our “Growth Platforms.” They are our springboards for innovation and function as centers of excellence where we build our world-class skills and capabilities to drive the growth of the company and to ensure smooth delivery of services and solutions to clients. This structure enables us to meet client expectations and our business objectives while providing excellent career opportunities for our people.

Work Groups

As a member of the Consulting workforce you will also aligned to one of three work groups – Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting or Technology Consulting. Each of these groups enables us to deliver the increasingly specialized skills that clients demand while providing enhanced career opportunities for our people.

Management Consulting Work Group

Management Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation. You are likely to be involved in a range of activities from assessing businesses and processes to performing value analysis in order to identify opportunities for improvement. Alternatively, you may be asked to look at how businesses are structured and what they are capable of delivering, and then developing organizational strategies and designs that will enable clients to improve their performance.

The majority of our work in Management Consulting falls within certain key specialties and you are likely to find yourself building deep skills in one of these areas.

Some of our management consulting professionals also specialize in a particular industry process such as insurance claims processing, pharmaceutical research and development, or scientific retailing.

Systems Integration Consulting Work Group

Consulting professionals in the Systems Integration Consulting workgroup are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance.

There are many different roles Systems Integration Consulting, and therefore significant opportunities for you to develop highly-specialized skills that will further your career.

Technology Consulting Work Group

In the Technology Consulting workgroup, consultants are responsible for delivering technology innovation and providing the backbone of our systems integration business. They specialize in designing enterprise architecture and technology solutions, assessing and diagnosing technology environments, designing technology infrastructure such as networks, security and platforms, setting strategies, and tuning technology environments for optimal performance. Beyond these core competencies you will specialize in at least one domain and/or specialty area.

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