Accenture helps clients become high-performance businesses. In other words, we help them become more successful in every part of their businesses, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This includes helping them to identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.
Accenture’s business is structured around five industry sectors that we call Operating Groups: Communications & High-Tech (serving the communications, electronics and high-tech, media and entertainment industries); Financial Services (banking, capital markets and insurance); Products (automotive, consumer goods, health services, retail and transportation); Resources (chemicals, energy, natural resources and utilities) and Government. These Operating Groups have primary responsibility for managing client relationships and selling our services.
The services and solutions we offer fall into three categories: Management Consulting, Systems Integration & Technology 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. Growth platforms also provide the expertise that ensures 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. From a business point of view, the high degree of specialization across business functions, industry sectors and technologies helps us be more efficient and respond more quickly to our clients. Just as important, it also drives the career development of our people, allowing them to build deep, marketable skills and gain experience that adds value to their careers. Working in this way enables us to pull together quickly integrated teams of specialists who can provide clients with the best possible solutions and at the same time offer our people a constant variety of challenging work.