Zinnov hosts "Zinnov Awards & Recognition Program 2012"

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Zinnov hosts "Zinnov Awards Recognition Program
2012"
(1888PressRelease) Recognized leaders in
different categories across the MNC RD
fraternity. Zinnov, a leading Globalization and
Market Expansion advisory firm, recently hosted
"Zinnov Awards and Recognition Program 2012",
thereby recognizing leaders in different
categories across the MNC RD fraternity in
India. With its third year in running, the
program this year received a whopping 140
nominations across the different categories.
Speaking about the awards, Mr. Pari Natarajan,
CEO, Zinnov, said, "The Zinnov Awards and
Recognition Program 2012, in its third year, has
gained significant momentum as compared to the
previous years. I would like to take this
opportunity to congratulate all the winners and
wish them the best for their future endeavors".
Award Categories and Winners
Category 1 Technical Role Model - External Jury
and Nomination Based This category of award is
an individual contributor award and recognizes
technology stalwarts who have served by example
and inspired individuals, both within their
organization and beyond to emulate them and
follow a technical career path.
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Winners 1) Uresh Vahalia, Corporate Vice
President EMC India Center of Excellence 2)
Shalini Kapoor, Executive IT Architect IBM -
India Software Labs 3) Ganesan Vivekanandan,
Principal Engineer - Systems Technology
Ericsson India Global Services, BNET RD India 4)
Ritesh Kumar Gupta, InfoSphere Architect IBM -
India Software Labs Category 2 High Impact
Global Roles - Jury and Nomination Based This
category of award is an individual award, which
recognizes individuals' who are successfully
playing a global role from India. It assessed the
impact that the individual has created given
his/her vision, business acumen, span of control
and influence. Winners 1) Gerd Hoefner, CEO
Siemens Corporate Development Center 2) Suhas A.
Kelkar, Chief Technology Officer (APAC) BMC
Software India Pvt. Ltd. 3) Anupam Pahuja,
General Manager,Head Paypal India PayPal India
Private Limited Category 3 Great Place to
Innovate - External Jury and Nomination Based
This category of award is a companywide award,
which recognizes MNC RD centers that are focused
on innovation and have made concerted efforts
across four key enablement areas - culture,
conditions, process and metrics. The assessment
criteria focused on how conducive to innovation
the environment is and also the degree of
pervasiveness.
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Winners 1) Yahoo India RD 2) Intuit
India 3) EMC India Center of Excellence Category
4 Innovation - Potential to Solve Large Problems
- External Jury and Nomination Based This
category of award is a companywide award and
acknowledges organizations that have successfully
solved or are in the process of solving large
problems that have or will have a significant
impact on society. The problems being addressed
by these products/solutions could be planet scale
or restricted to developed/emerging markets with
the India Center playing a significant role in
the initiative Winners 1) Intuit India -
txtWeb 2) IBM - India Software Labs- IT
Analytics 3) Special Mention Continental
Automotive Components (India) Pvt. - Affordable
Single ECU Gasoline and Gas (CNG / LPG) Category
5 Most Successful Attrition Management - Jury
and Nomination Based This category of award is a
companywide award to recognize those MNC RD
centers that have successfully managed attrition
despite the industry average of 17 in the last
year. The assessment criteria apart from the
attrition numbers looked at the proactive
measures taken as well as the innovative
practices introduced to develop and retain
people.
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Winners 1) Siemens Corporate Development Center
India 2) PayPal India Private Limited 3) Amdocs
India Category 7 Transformation - Jury and
Nomination Based This category is a companywide
award that recognizes companies who are leaders
in the RD Industry in India, and have rapidly
evolved in their journey from being a pure play
cost center to a value center. The assessment
criteria included capability development,
innovation programs introduced, ecosystem
connects established and acquisition of funding.
Winners 1) EMC India Center of Excellence 2)
Manhattan Associates (India) Development Center
Pvt. Ltd. Category 8 Ecosystem Enablement Jury
and Nomination Based A) Universities This
category is a companywide award, which recognized
MNC RD Centers that have contributed
significantly to the development of the
University RD Ecosystem in India. The assessment
criteria included the depth, scale and quality of
interaction with tier-1 and tier-2 universities.
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Winners 1) Robert Bosch Engineering and Business
Solutions Ltd. 2) Texas Instruments India Pvt.
Ltd. 3) IBM India Pvt. Ltd. B) Start-ups This
category is a companywide award that
distinguishes MNC RD Centers, which have reached
out to a large number of startups and have
successfully evangelized, mentored and partnered
with them to establish platforms or to fill
product portfolio gaps or to foster new
technology innovation. Winners 1) Microsoft
Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd. 2) Citrix C)
Developers This companywide award recognizes MNC
RD Centers, who have made inroads in cultivating
the developer ecosystem in India and have
successfully created a platform that has enabled
the development of cutting edge
technology Winners 1) Microsoft Corporation
(India) Pvt. Ltd. 2) Yahoo India RD D) Service
Providers
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This companywide award recognizes MNC RD centers
that have effectively leveraged Service Providers
in a true partnership model to address a market
need. The selection process was based on the
duration of partnerships, depth of collaboration,
successful outcomes and market impact. Winner 1)
NetApp India Private Limited About Zinnov
Founded in 2002, Zinnov - meaning Zeal in
Innovation - is a leading Globalization and
Market Expansion Advisory firm, with
specialization in areas like Global Sourcing,
Emerging Markets Expansion, Human Capital
Optimization, Small Medium Businesses,
Innovation, Cloud Computing and Enterprise
Mobility. Zinnov provides advice to global
leaders in business and technology and works
collectively with them to tackle prevailing
organizational challenges by analyzing changing
dynamics, improving performance, and building
institutional capability. The services delivered
to its clients through advanced reasoning and
analytical techniques, provides solutions that
help in integrating organizational vision,
business definition and processes. For further
information, please contact Kinjal Chhetri
Panwar Senior Marketing Manager, Zinnov Email
kinjal ( _at_ ) zinnov dot com Phone No 91
9466132313
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Kailash Pandiyan Project Lead, Online Marketing,
Zinnov Email Kailash ( _at_ ) zinnov dot com Phone
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