India IT Innovation Awards

Driving IT Adoption across various verticals and celebrating successful Business Innovation through IT, is a key priority for enhancing the Country’s competitiveness and productivity. IT Innovation Awards presented by Lenovo and powered by NASSCOM and CNBC-TV18 are expected to create a catalytic impact, by recognizing enterprises across various verticals in India, who have demonstrated leadership in Innovative use of Information Technology, for Business Growth and Customer Service.

The awards felicitate enterprises for innovation, thought leadership and excellence in adoption of IT to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Enterprises recognized by this award would have leveraged IT as a “value-unlocker” in achieving synergistic business transformation, process innovation, cost optimization, process efficiencies and customer delight.

The Award Categories for “Best IT Driven Innovation”, span a mix of 14 verticals, some of which have been leaders in IT Adoption, and some, emerging verticals, which are beginning to demonstrate the transformational Impact of IT. The Horizontal Award categories include “Most Innovative Green IT Implementation” and “Most Innovative Project for Social Inclusion” among others. Frost & Sullivan is the Knowledge Partner driving the research and evaluation process.

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The theme for this year is "IT as a strategic lever redefining innovation, business growth and inclusion"

Process & Methodology

Nominations
Enterprises need to nominate themselves to contest for the awards. Only those enterprises which nominate will be considered for the award process
Every enterprise can nominate itself for a maximum of 1 vertical category and/or 1 or more horizontal category award.
The awards acknowledge and recognize enterprises for innovative and effective use of IT to achieve business objectives. This may involve one or multiple IT projects over the year. The projects must have been initiated no earlier than CY 2011 and must have at least one milestone completed in 2012. Hence on-going projects will be considered and all data provided must be with respect to the completed milestone only.
Nominees will be required to fill in a self-assessment tool kit as part of the nomination process. The self-assessment tool kit is a word document to capture information regarding the enterprise and the IT projects concerned
The entries will be judged solely based on the information provided by the nominee in the self - assessment tool kit. Incomplete self-assessment tool kits will not be eligible for further evaluation process
Screening
An initial screening of the received self-assessment tool kits will be carried out. Incomplete and incorrect category nominations will be filtered out
Shortlisting
3 nominations per award category (subject to conditions like total number of received nominations) will be shortlisted by Frost & Sullivan. The awards short listed enterprises will be chosen on a combination of research and framework developed by an expert team of Frost & Sullivan analysts and consultants.
The CIO/ IT managers/ representative of the nominee may be contacted for a telephonic discussion in case of clarification requirements on any details.
The short listing will be done on a number of quantitative and qualitative criteria. The parameters are broadly described below:
Business Goals achieved/ enabled
The nominee will be judged on the business need / challenge and the success of IT implementation in enabling meet the business objectives. The broad level business objectives could be:

- Top line growth
- Bottom line growth
- Increased Customer satisfaction
- Gaining Competitive advantage
- Achieving operational excellence
The nominee will be expected to drill down further to substantiate this parameter by highlighting the business benefits achieved and how it ties up with the IT initiative. The business benefits could include one or more of the following:

- Enhanced business agility through faster Go To Market and market/ customer responsiveness
- Customer acquisition by reach out to new segments and geographies
- Customer retention
- Improved efficiency of operations
- Reduced cost of operations
- Enabled better decision making
- Improved business processes / Best practices
- Operational excellence
- Business process integration and optimization
- Supply chain integration/ partner integration
Strategic approach to IT
Weightage will be given to a strategic approach to IT vis a vis a piece meal/ tactical approach. The strategic approach would require a vision both from a business and integrated technology perspective. Strategic implies to a holistic view of the investments made into IT.
Innovation and thought leadership
Weightage will be given for innovation and thought leadership. The innovation could range from a new business / industry specific solution to leading the path by thought leadership. Some examples are given below:

- Innovative/ disruptive technology implemented
- New Initiatives taken
- Technology initiatives creating new business avenues
- Unique implementations in industry
Scale of project
The scale would be a function of the rupee value of investments as well the business impact and stake holders involved. The buckets will be separate for large and emerging enterprises depending on the award category
IT governance
IT governance is contextual to the award category and the scope would vary on a project basis. Broadly, the governance aspects for the initiative will include one or more of the following dimensions:

- Implementation excellence – time period, man hours, roll outs
- IT standards adopted
- Information security compliance and policies
- Metrics developed and tracked including ROI
- Systems Audit control
- Risk mitigation
- Change management
Selection
A distinguished jury panel comprising of industry thought leaders from provider and end user community will deliberate and select the winner for each category
Awards presentations
The awards honourees’ thus selected based on a process involving a combination of research, and experience of renowned jury panel will be declared on the occasion.

Award Categories

Automotive Business
This award category is applicable to enterprises focusing on automotive manufacturing.
Automotive Ancillary Business
This award category is applicable to enterprises focusing on manufacturing equipment,automotive-parts and any other ancillary units for automotive sector.
Banking (Commercial)
This award category is applicable to nationalized, private and foreign banks.
Banking (Cooperative)
The award category for Co-operative and rural banks is applicable to Regional Rural banks, Scheduled Co-operative and Non-scheduled banks.
Financial Services & Insurance
This award category is applicable to all forms of Development Finance companies and Non-Banking Finance companies encompassing life as well as non-life insurance companies.
Energy & Utilities
This award category is applicable to enterprises focusing on oil & gas, power and utilities.
Education
This award category is applicable to institutions offering services in the higher education sector.
Healthcare
The award category is applicable to healthcare service providers encompassing all hospitals and diagnostic units and also makers of all forms of pharmaceutical and biotechnological drugs and products
Infrastructure sector
This award category is applicable to enterprises focusing on infrastructure projects in real estate & construction sector inclusive of commercial and residential projects.
IT / ITeS
This award category is applicable to enterprises in the IT/ITeS sector
Retail ( Emerging)
The award category for large enterprises is applicable to retail enterprises having direct or franchisee presence in retail stores.
Retail ( Large )
The award category for large enterprises is applicable to retail enterprises having direct or franchisee presence in retail stores.
Telecom Service Provider (TSP) business
This award category is applicable to telecom service providers.
Transportation & Logistics
This award category is applicable to enterprises focusing on transportation and logistics sector and any other enterprise operating anywhere in the above value chain, for ex. aviation, shipping, roads.
Inclusive IT
This award category is applicable to enterprises that have displayed greater involvement and interaction of their employees through their IT implementation.
Green IT Implementation
This award category is applicable to enterprises across sectors who have implemented green IT projects.
Social Inclusion
This award category is applicable to enterprises focusing on government projects aimed at / resulting in social inclusion through their IT implementation.
E-Commerce
This award category is applicable to retail enterprises that have designed and developed an e-commerce platform.
Mobile Apps
This award category is applicable to IT/ non-IT enterprises that have designed and developed a mobile application for commercial use.
School Education
This award category is applicable to products or solutions catering to providing pedagogical services to school students, institutes or private bodies in the K 12 (Kindergarten to 12th standard) sector.
Software
This award category is applicable to IT/non-IT enterprises that have designed and developed a software product for commercial use.

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