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Award Details |
First Prize |
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Rs, 10,000/- |
Second Prize |
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Rs 5000/- |
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Dates to save |
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Last Date of Registration |
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January 20th 2016 |
Written Paper Submission |
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1st February 2016 |
Oral Presentation |
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March 5th 2016 |
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Inviting nominations for eWIT Excellence Award Contest
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Are you from HR or Quality or Technology background?
Are you ready to share your knowledge / expertise and experience in your area?
Here’s an opportunity! Take part in this year’s eWIT Excellence Award Contest. Choose your topic of interest, put on your writer’s cap, and write!
Presenting your paper in eWIT forum goes a long way. Who knows, your paper may qualify for the award and get published in the annual brochure and will be recognized by a large audience. Go ahead and register.
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About eWIT's Excellence Award |
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"The eWIT Excellence Award" for women professionals in the IT/ITES industry is designed to provide an opportunity for women IT/ITES professionals to showcase their talent and expertise in their respective areas. Over the last few years, we have had an excellent participation by women professionals for this competition. Our Sponsors for the AWARD have been –Cognizant Technology, Accenture & Tech Mahindra. |
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Topics |
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Category A: Technology |
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Managing data with emerging technologies |
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Category B: Quality |
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Enhanced Quality through process innovation |
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Category C: Human Resources |
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Organizational competitiveness through learning strategies |
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Category A: Technology
Managing data with emerging technologies
The amount of data generated and stored has exploded in the past few years because of new social behavior, the vast spread of Social system as well as the way businesses are being conducted. In this scenario, management of variety of data is beyond the capacity of relational database approaches. Given the amount of data expansion, technology challenges, organization limitations, privacy concerns among other obstacles, the trend is to approach analyzing data with new emerging technologies.
The paper should aim to examine how the emerging data management technologies, integrates several advanced data management infrastructure and clearly addresses the required information management and exploitation capabilities required to implement the ‘Big Data ecosystem’ enabled infrastructure.
Category B: Quality
Enhanced Quality through process innovation
Quality is a mandatory aspect in the current trend of competitive world. The Quality of the Process is directly relates to quality of the deliverables in creating a product or a service. With the added pressure on efficiency of operations, process becomes an essential aspect for sustaining what we deliver. While complying to the set process is essential, there is a need to be innovative with the changing needs. As always the business needs keeps dynamically changing, process also needs flexibility to mend itself to these needs without compromising them. Like we talk about innovation in products, tools and engineering practices, it is becoming inevitable in the areas of process also. The process innovation that goes along the business demands will be of great support in making the business delivery excel which is the need of the hour. Obviously there are challenges associated with them.
The paper is expected to discuss aspects around these points and case studies, where relevant.
Category C: Human Resources
Organizational competitiveness through learning strategies
In the present dynamic condition of global business environment organizations are put in situations which demand them to be adaptable and at the same time be proactive. To address this, one aspect many organizations have concentrated on is organizational learning. Strategists have understood the significance of organizational learning in generating and maintaining competitive advantage.
The premise for this paper is that organization which have learning strategies are competitive and have an edge over others.
Learning strategies are defined as strategies to continuously upgrade skill sets of the workforce by various methods including training, certifications, experiential training, membership of cross functional teams for new projects, rotation of employees to new functional areas and new geographies etc.
Participants can either agree or disagree with the premise. Arguments and logic to support the premise chosen should be developed.
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supporting the premise - suggest ways by which possible pitfalls for not achieving competitiveness can be avoided and how the learning strategies can be made sustainable |
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not supporting the premise - need to justify why the learning strategies can never be sustainable |
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Guidelines for participants |
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Please register on or before 20th January 2016 |
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Scope and Rules for Written Presentation |
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The written presentation on the chosen topic must be submitted on or before 1st February 2016 |
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Paper is to be presented orally by an individual and not by a group |
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Paper should be presented in .doc or .pdf format (if you have docx format, pls. convert to .doc and submit) |
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Your file name format should be your name <>category<>topic.doc (for ex. Mala_HR_Workplace Learning.doc) |
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• Please do not mention your company name, your designation or your short profile in your paper anywhere |
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Consequent page should carry executive summary of the paper not exceeding 250 words |
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Total paper presentation should be between 2500 to 3500 words |
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Should be typed, double spaced leaving 3 cms margin all the four side |
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Font should be Times New Roman, 12 point |
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Pages should be numbered |
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Charts, diagrams, etc. may be included to support any research work or data collection |
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Paper submitted should be the original work of the author
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• Plagiarism - inclusion of other peoples' work to substantiate a point being made should be appropriately acknowledged. Source & name of author will have to be mentioned in the Bibliography. However, no direct 'cut and paste' is allowed. If 'cut and paste' from sources acknowledged or not acknowledged are found, the paper will be rejected. |
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Should contain a Bibliography at the end stating actual sources of references |
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Evaluation Criteria for Written Presentation |
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Presentation Format |
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Originality & Creative Thinking |
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Accuracy and depth of content |
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A jury of eminent persons from the corporate world and academic field will evaluate the written presentations |
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Top 5 written presentations in each category will be selected for oral presentation |
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Scope and Rules for Oral presentation |
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Based on evaluation of written presentations, selected individuals will be called for the oral presentation before the panel on March 5, 2016. The panel will evaluate the oral presentation and choose the winners based on the scores of their evaluation of both written and oral presentation. Results will be announced on the same day or the following day. |
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Those selected for oral presentation in each category will be informed 5-7 days before their scheduled presentation |
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Oral presentation can be presented by individuals only. Each participant will get a total of 20 minutes for the oral presentation as well as the discussion. First 12 minutes will be used for presentation and the subsequent 8 minutes will be used for discussion with the panel of judges. |
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After the first 10 minutes of the presentation, there will be an indication of remaining 2 minutes to complete the presentation. If any participant stretches the presentation beyond the time limit of 12 minutes, there will be negative marking for same. |
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The LCD projector and Laptop will be provided |
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Order of presentation will be drawn by lot |
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Evaluation Criteria for oral presentation |
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Clarity and substance |
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Ability to communicate with, and respond to questions effectively |
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Contribution to effective managerial thinking and performance. |
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Originality & Creativity |
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The winners of the contest will get a certificate, cash prize of Rs.10,000/- |
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The runners up of the contest will get a certificate, cash prize of Rs.5000/- . |
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3rd & 4th positions will get certificates. |
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