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  • Shashi Sinha inducted into the IAA Hall of Fame

    IAA Leadership Awards presented

    By Our Staff

     

    N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons was honoured as the IAA Business Leader of the Year. When asked about the formula to success, Chandrasekaran said: “Running business in general is like a marathon and running Tata Group Business is like an ultra-marathon. These businesses have a lot of history and legacy so I don’t think there is a magic sauce. If requires a lot of team work, the right people, focus, lot of hard work and some luck. So, all of this plays a part, hardwork plus luck makes the magic sauce. He added that the biggest strength for the Tata group is its ethos and values which is deeply ingrained in the people”.

     

    When asked about tips and advice on time management to be more efficient by actor Ranveer Singh, Chandrasekaran said his mantra is ‘tension nahi leneka, gran nahi deneka’. We got to see a lighter side of Chandrasekaran during the discussion.

     

     

     

    Actor Ranveer Singh received the IAA Brand Endorser of the Year. Ranveer as we all know is powerhouse of energy and he made all smile with this eloquent talk.

     

     

    The IAA Force for Good was received by Sonu Sood, an individual who has gone beyond and helped those in need across the country particularly during the pandemic.

     

     

    Said Megha Tata President, IAA India: “When we talk about the year that was, it was such a silver lining to the dark clouds, that we all witnessed in 2020. A year of facing challenges though, these ones maybe a little more complex than before. Last year has also been a year of recovery for business and while the market is slowly coming around, it is these leaders who have led people and organisations towards growth and success. So this evening is dedicated to all you leaders who have gone beyond the pressure of time and opportunity lost during the pandemic and have shown great resilience and adaptability to the new way of doing business.”

     

     

    Added Nandini Dias, Co- Chair- IAA Leadership Awards: ‘Across the 15 categories that will be awarded today, we assessed over 200 companies. a shortlist of 10 companies per category were picked out. Besides considering aspects like change in growth, advertising to sales ratio, market share, profitability etc. This year our jurors also started considering the ESG rating. Unlike any other award, IAA doesn’t share any entry fee for the participation, they aren’t even aware that a body is doing such meticulous study, which makes the award way more prestigious.’

     

     

    IAA India inducted Shashi Sinha into the IAA Hall of Fame. Sinha mentioned Dr V Kurein’s role as a mentor in his advertising career. He also added that “when Anil Kapoor joined the organisation he changed the face of the organisation we worked for, he taught me everything, gave me courage of conviction but more importantly the concept of ‘biradri’, that you must do work for your organisation but also for your ecosystem.

     

     

    The IAA Leadership Awards felicitated Avinash Pandey with the IAA Media Person of the Year award. The IAA Media Game Changer of the Year award was presented to Punit Goenka; IAA Media Agency Leader of the Year to Tanmay Mohanty; IAA Creative Agency Leader of the Year to P G Aditiya and IAA TV Anchor of the Year to Zakka Jacob amongst others.

     

     

    List of Winners

     

     

  • Debasis Ray, Head Corporate Communications & Public Relations, Tata Trusts will continue to support the Tata Group communications team on an ongoing basis

    Tata Sons appoints Pradipta Bagchi as Group Chief Communications Officer

    By A Correspondent

     

    When the boss is comfortable with your work, it’s not much of a surprise that he pulls you in when he moves up. Last year, N Chandrasekaran moved up to the role of Executive Chairman of Tata Sons after helming Tata Consultancy Services for many years. Now, Chandrasekaran has brought in Pradipta Bagchi, global head of corporate communications for TCS since 2005, as Group Chief Communications Officer.  The appointment is effective yesterday (Sept 12). Bagchi will report to Chandrasekaran. A professional with over 25 years of experience in business, media and communications, Bagchi is a former journalist whose switch to PR from being a successful editor with The Times of India group had surprised many.

     

    Said Chandrasekaran on the appointment:“Pradipta brings extensive experience as a communication professional. As the Group Chief Communications Officer, he will play a key role in driving seamless communication experience across the Tata group as well as create engagement with stakeholders. Having worked with Pradipta for a decade, I know that his energy and experience will be very valuable in this area.”

     

    “I am delighted to have the opportunity to continue to work under Chandra. It will be my endeavour to help build on the core strengths of the Tata Group,” said Bagchi.

     

    Debasis Ray, Head Corporate Communications and Public Relations, Tata Trusts will continue to support the Tata Group communications team on an ongoing basis.

     

  • The Tata Mumbai Marathon is scheduled for January 21, 2018

    Mumbai Marathon gets a new benefactor: It’s the Tatas now

    By A Correspondent

     

    For 14 years, we knew it as the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. In fact unlike other title sponsor events like IPL where not many refer to it as the Vivo IPL or in the past as the Pepsi IPL or DLF IPL, in the case the Standard Chartered brand name was an integral part of the event.

     

    All that is history with Stanchart exiting the association and the Tata group which has been a benefactor of many international marathons as the title sponsor. From 2018, the country’s most prestigious long distance race will be called the ‘Tata Mumbai Marathon’. The 15th edition of the run will be held on January 21, 2018.

     

    The Tata Mumbai Marathon will be jointly sponsored by the Tata group and its IT-led consultancy arm Tata Consultancy Services. The period of sponsorship is ten years.

     

    Speaking on the occasion of the announcement, N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons, said: “We are delighted to become the title sponsor of the Tata Mumbai Marathon from 2018. Events like the marathon promote values like grit, tenacity, excellence, perseverance, belief, commitment, and passion that have been a key part of the Tata group’s ethos since its inception, almost 150 years ago. As a marathoner, I’m personally proud to support this partnership.

     

    Added Rajesh Gopinathan, CEO & MD, TCS, said: “At TCS, we believe that a healthy and fit workforce is a pre-requisite for sustained business success. Through our support of marathons globally as well as internal programs like Fit4Life, a strong message about health and fitness is now part of the culture of the company. Over the years, TCS has partnered with many marathons around the world. It gives us immense pleasure to continue to be associated with the Mumbai Marathon, which is one of the largest in the country. This time it is even more special, since it is the Tata Mumbai Marathon.”

     

    Said Vivek Singh, Joint MD, Procam International which manages and owns the Mumbai Marathon: “It is a pleasure to welcome aboard the Tatas as title sponsors, as we celebrate a landmark 15th edition of the Mumbai Marathon. With a 10-year commitment to the event, the Tatas have shown us yet again their commitment to give back to the society through sport. We are honoured with their visionary approach and, as partners, we look forward to building a marathon legacy by providing participants across the world an extraordinary experience.”

     

  • Lifetime Achievement Award for Kiran Karnik; IT return electronic filing project wins the Pathbreaker of the Year award.

    TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran wins the Dataquest IT Person of the Year award 2011

    By A Correspondent

     

    Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO of India’s largest IT Services company, Tata Consultancy Services, has been conferred the Dataquest IT Person of the Year award for 2011-one of the most coveted honours in Indian IT.

     

    The award is given by IT magazine Dataquest every year to an individual for making extraordinary contribution to Indian IT. The jury led by Mr Pramod Bhasin of Genpact (and 2010 Dataquest IT person of the year) unanimously decided on Mr Chandrasekaran who is regarded as the face of next generation leadership in the Indian IT. In the context of most of the first generation leaders stepping down, there was apprehension about a leadership vacuum being created. The jury felt that Mr Chandrasekaran, through his able leadership has proved that any such fear is unfounded.

     

    A TCS insider, Mr Chandrasekaran also stands as a role model for millions of programmers and engineers as he started as a trainee in TCS and rose to become its top leader.

     

    “Chandra’s able leadership is a testimony to the fact that Indian IT companies have it in them to grow extraordinary leadership internally,” noted Pradeep Gupta, Chairman of CyberMedia, the publishers of Dataquest. “The success of Indian IT is not a one-time achievement of only a few individuals,” he added.

     

    Kiran Karnik was awarded for his Lifetime Contribution to Indian IT. Mr Karnik, who led NASSCOM as president for seven years also headed the government appointed board of Satyam that moved fast and in a transparent manner and was instrumental in establishing the credibility of India in the wake of the Satyam crisis. He is also associated with many educational institutions.

     

    The online IT return filing system of the Income Tax Department, Government of India was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award for 2011 making the lives of millions of taxpayers smoother, while reducing refund time drastically and enhancing overall efficiency. Between 2004 to 2011, there are five government projects/companies/persons who have won this coveted award.

     

    The 2010 Dataquest IT Person of the year Award had gone to Pramod Bhasin, Vice Chairman (then CEO) of BPO company Genpact. And as the winner of the last year Mr Bhasin headed the jury this year that included Pradeep Gupta, CMD of CyberMedia India (as Vice Chairman); Vijay Thadani, CEO, NIIT; Shankar Aggarwall, Addl Secretary, Department of IT; Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, MD, Dell India; Col H S Bedi, CEO, Tulip; Amrita Gangotra, CIO, Airtel; Professor Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIIT Delhi, and Shyam Malhotra, Director, CyberMedia India.

     

    The awards, now in the 19th year, were conferred at a glittering ceremony in the presence of industry leaders and leading CIOs. The awards night this year also included the PC Quest Best IT Implementaation awards, given by PC Quest, another CyberMedia publication.

     

    Dataquest also honoured top manufacturers, service providers and institutions based on their Dataquest Top 20 rankings for FY 2010-11 and their performance in various surveys conducted by the magazine throughout the year.

     

    Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) retained its top position as the No 1 IT company and No 1 IT exporter. It also bagged the newly instituted Top Engineering Services company award.

     

    The Dataquest Top Personal Systems company award went to Dell India for recording the highest combined revenue in sales of desktops and laptops.

     

    Hewlett Packard (HP) India won the Top Server Company award while the newly instituted Top Storage Company award went to EMC India. With dominant market share, HP also won the Top Imaging and Printing Company for 2010 making it a total of two awards.

     

    Cisco India won the Top Networking Company award for recording the highest sales in networking equipment during 2010-11. The IT training pioneer NIIT won the award for Top Training Company for yet another year.

     

    IBM India remained ahead of others and won the top IT Services Company (India Market) award. The pioneering BPO Company Genpact with revenues of over one billion dollars bagged the Top BPO company award. Ingram Micro India bagged the Top Distribution Company award for 2011. SAP India topped the software products sales to bag the Top Software Company award for 2011.

     

    Despite tough competition from new pure play smart phone makers and Indian companies, Nokia continued to lead the smart phone market and bagged the Top Smartphone Company award for 2011.

     

    HCL Infosystems won the Best Employer (IT) award based on its No 1 rank in DQ-CMR Best Employer Survey (IT) 2011. BPO firm, vCustomer won the Best Employer BPO award for the fifth time in a row.IITBombay won the Top T School award based on its No 1 rank in DQ-CMR Top T School Survey 2011. It was the winner last year too.

     

    The winners are selected by a jury of eminent individuals from IT industry, IT user organizations and academicians among others. Some of the past IT persons of the year include Infosys’ NR Narayana Murthy, HCL’s Shiv Nadar, Wipro’s Azim Premji, NIIT’s Rajendra S Pawar, Bharti’s Sunil B Mittal, Genpact’s Pramod Bhasin, Cognizant’s Lakshmi Narayanan and former IT Secretary N Vittal.