Organization	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Organization	1. Organization (a) Nature of Operations The Company is a provider of digitally-powered business process management and services. The architect of the Lean Digital^SM enterprise, the Company uses its patented Smart Enterprise Processes (SEP^SM) framework to reimagine its clients’ operating models end-to-end, including their middle and back offices. This creates Intelligent Operations^SM that the Company helps to design, transform, and run. The Company generates impact for a few hundred strategic clients, including approximately one fifth of the Fortune Global 500, and has over 75,000 employees in 25 countries. (b) Organization Prior to December 30, 2004, the business of the Company was conducted through various entities and divisions of GE. On December 30, 2004, in a series of transactions referred to as the “2004 Reorganization,” GE transferred such operations to the Company. In August 2007, the Company completed an initial public offering of its common shares. On October 25, 2012, Glory Investments A Limited, formerly known as South Asia Private Investments, an affiliate of Bain Capital Investors, LLC (“Bain Capital”), became the Company’s largest shareholder when, together with its affiliated assignees and two additional co-investors, it purchased 67,750,678 common shares of the Company from the Company’s initial investors.

Organization

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

1. Organization

(a) Nature of Operations

The Company is a provider of digitally-powered business process management and services. The architect of the Lean Digital^SM enterprise, the Company uses its patented Smart Enterprise Processes (SEP^SM) framework to reimagine its clients’ operating models end-to-end, including their middle and back offices. This creates Intelligent Operations^SM that the Company helps to design, transform, and run. The Company generates impact for a few hundred strategic clients, including approximately one fifth of the Fortune Global 500, and has over 75,000 employees in 25 countries.

(b) Organization

Prior to December 30, 2004, the business of the Company was conducted through various entities and divisions of GE. On December 30, 2004, in a series of transactions referred to as the “2004 Reorganization,” GE transferred such operations to the Company. In August 2007, the Company completed an initial public offering of its common shares. On October 25, 2012, Glory Investments A Limited, formerly known as South Asia Private Investments, an affiliate of Bain Capital Investors, LLC (“Bain Capital”), became the Company’s largest shareholder when, together with its affiliated assignees and two additional co-investors, it purchased 67,750,678 common shares of the Company from the Company’s initial investors.