Best People An Accenture core value that is based on the following: Seek opportunities to develop leading-edge skills on your team. Recognize and value diversity; build teams that offer diverse perspectives to our clients. Provide honest and timely feedback—formal and informal—to your team. Take time to integrate new hires to the organization and new team members to your projects. Take responsibility for your career development. See Core Values. Board of Directors The Board of Directors manages the business affairs of Accenture, which includes approving and overseeing our overall business strategy and appointing management to carry out that strategy. Buddy New Accenture employees are assigned a buddy as an informal mentor. Buddies are generally people who have been with the company a year or two, and can thus know exactly what kind of information a new employee needs—and the new hire need have no embarrassment about asking “silly” questions. The system is designed to facilitate integration. See also Analyst Training Program, Career Counselor and Start Group. Business Architecture and Operations This organization has primary responsibility for coordinating activities to achieve the initiatives under Accenture's operational excellence imperative. Business Consulting Our capability groups--Business Consulting and Technology & Delivery--build world-class skills and capabilities; develop knowledge capital; and create, acquire and manage assets to help clients achieve business goals. Within the Business Consulting capability group are the following Accenture organizations: -Customer Relationship Management -Finance & Performance Management -Talent & Organization Performance -Strategy -Supply Chain Management Business Intelligence (BI) Business Intelligence solutions help companies aggregate data derived from their day-to-day operations and from external sources (e.g., economic forecasts, geo-political analysis, weather patterns) and then turn it into information that users can customize easily to meet their specific business needs. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Accenture Business Process Outsourcing units and solution units develop and deliver business process outsourcing services, helping clients achieve higher performance at lower costs. We provide clients with immediate access to best-in-class processes and proven, scalable services delivered through our global network of delivery centers. Business Process Outsourcing units are responsible for creating, acquiring and managing scalable solutions that can be offered to multiple clients, often incorporating the capabilities of our service lines, affiliates and alliance partners. Business Systems and Integration Consultants in Business Systems and Integration Consulting are responsible for large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology. They specialize in the design, development, integration and delivery of functional and industry solutions and processes for clients based on existing packages such as SAP and PeopleSoft, Retek or custom-built systems. See also Consulting, Business Consulting.