cognizant innovation awards 2013- guideline
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IT IS Innovation Challenge & Cognizant Innovation Awards - 2013
Team Operations Maturity July 10, 2013
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Innovation Awards 2013 - Categories
Innovation that has been implemented & has realized the benefits in Hard Dollars
Category 1 Hard Dollars (Tangible Benefits)
Innovation that has been implemented & has realized the benefits in Soft Dollars (Greater than $100,000)
Category 2 Soft Dollars (Intangible Benefits greater than $100,000)
Innovation that has been implemented & has realized the benefit in Soft Dollars (Less than $100,000)
Category 3 Soft Dollars (Intangible Benefits less than $100,000)
Innovation that has been implemented but has not realized the dollar benefit, but has a potential business opportunity .
Category 4 Emerging Innovation
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What is Hard Dollar? The impact of Innovations that are tangible in nature are defined as Hard Dollars. Innovation that generate direct cash impacts (increase in revenue/profitability : Explicit increase in revenue / profitability on account of innovation that are accounted in P/L statement & Balance sheet ) of an organization. What is Soft Dollar? The impact of Innovations that are intangible in nature are defined as Soft Dollars. Innovation that do not generate direct cash impact but then offer intangible benefits such as increase in customer satisfaction, enhanced user experience, savings in time/effort etc.
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Timeline Stage Ownership Mode End date
Submission of
Innovations
Delivery Teams,
Sub Groups and
Teams across IT IS Share point upload July 31
Internal Selection of
Top 5 Innovations
under each category
Team OM &
Panelists Offline review Aug 16
Presentation of Top 5
Innovations per
category before IT IS
Jury
Team OM &
winning Teams Tandberg
Presentation Aug 17 23
Nomination of the
winning entries from
IT IS for Cognizant
Innovation Awards
Team OM
Offline Last week of August
Presentation before
Global Jury on IT IS
emerging as winner at
Org level
CIG and Team OM
Tandberg
Presentation September
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Rules
Only IMPLEMENTED Innovations in time period 1-July-2012 to 30-June-2013 to be considered
Entries to be shared in the TEMPLATE enclosed
Teams have to ensure that innovations submitted are cleared for participating in external events also
A nomination cannot be submitted under multiple categories. Nominating an innovation in multiple categories may lead to disqualification.
These are team awards. Nominations shared with the BU have to come from a Project/Account team / Sub Groups of IT IS
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Where do I submit my nominations?
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https://ch1hub.cognizant.com/sites/SC62/ITIS%20Innov
ations%202013/Lists/IT%20IS%20Innovation%20Challen
ge%202013/AllItems.aspx
If you are unable to access the link to submit your nominations
please write to IDs: 180386 / 280094 to get necessary access
Naming Convention: Account Name_Innovation Title_Category1 Account Name_Innovation Title_Category2 Account Name_Innovation Title_Category3 Account Name_Innovation Title_Categor4
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Case Studies NASSCOM 2012 winners
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NASSCOM 2013 Winners & Runner-up Case Studies
Category Organization Link to case study
Technology
Vigyanlabs Innovations Private
Limited
http://www.nasscom.org/sites/default/files/userfi
les/file/Vigyanlabs_TI_Awardee.pdf
Intuit Inc http://www.nasscom.org/sites/default/files/userfi
les/file/Intuit%20TI_Awardee.pdf
Market Facing
Infosys Limited http://www.nasscom.org/sites/default/files/userfi
les/file/InfosysEdge%20PI_Awardee.pdf
Phoenix IT Solutions Limited http://www.nasscom.org/sites/default/files/userfi
les/file/Phoenix%20BI_Awardee.pdf
Process Not Uploaded Currently
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Cognizant Case Studies under Top 5 in NASSCOM 2012
Category Innovation Name Link to case study
Technology iSMART
http://www.nasscom.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Awards2013/InnovationAwards2013/docs/Cognizat%20TI_Shortlist.pdf
Market Facing
Cognizant Social Prism
http://www.nasscom.org/sites/default/files/uploa
ds/Awards2013/InnovationAwards2013/docs/Cog
nizant%20BI_Shortlist.pdf
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Sample Case studies on Categorization
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Value of Innovation
An innovations outcome can favourably impact
Revenue
(Revenue Increase)
Increased Sales
Royalty
New Service Line
Profit
(Cost Savings)
Personnel (Productivity Increase)
Hardware / Software, Licenses
Operational (Rent / Lease, Advt.)
* Indicative list
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Category #1 Hard Dollar
The Case
For a large logistics services provider, Cognizant developed a solution by which web forms can be dynamically created by the customer without depending on the intranet portal
releases
Benefits & Method of Calculation Faster Time to Market
Before Forms required 2 weeks
After Less than one day
Scalable
Any no. of surveys can be conducted
Implementable across business units
Cost Savings
Cost of developing 1 form = 5000
No. of forms developed = 20 / year
Savings = 20 * 5000 = 100, 000
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
Hard = 100 000
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Category #1 Hard Dollar
The Case
For a large international multi-channel retailer, Cognizant developed a solution that obviated the need for continual payment of license cost by the customer for the propriety software of
a vendor
Benefits & Method of Calculation License Cost
Before $ 1.2 M / year
After $ 0.07 M / year (Maintenance cost for newly developed application)
Direct Cost Savings
Cost of 1 License - $ 5,000
No. of Users 240
Total Cost = $ 5000 * 240 = $ 1,200,000
Savings = $ 1,200,000 - $ 72, 000 = $ 1,128,000
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
Hard = $ 1,128,000
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Category #1 Hard Dollar
The Case
For a large global, diversified manufacturing company, Cognizant improved the code structure that enabled quicker product updates to the website resulting in increased sales
Benefits & Method of Calculation New Product data / Existing Product data update
Before 24 h turnaround time
After 12 h
Q1 Sales = $ 6.3 B = $ 70 M / day = $ 2.9 M / h
Basis for Calculation
10% of total sales initiated by online promotions
Avg. Sales / Online hour = $ 290 K
1% of Online Sales are New Products
Avg. Sales of New Products Online / hour = $ 2,900
Additional Sales to the Company = 12 h * 365 days * $ 2900 = $ 12.7 M / year
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
Hard = $ 12.7 M
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Category #2 Soft Dollar (greater than $ 100,000)
The Case
For a global bio-pharmaceutical company, Cognizant re-designed the application deployment architecture to provide uninterrupted business operations during the day
Benefits & Method of Calculation Avg. Time taken to search the samples
Before 2 h / day
After 1 h / day
Time spent by 60 personnel to perform the search of samples in a month (22 working days)
Before 22 * 2 * 60 = 2640 h / month
After 22 * 1 * 60 = 1320 h / month
Savings = (2640 1320) * $ 100 = $ 132,000 / month = $ 1,584,000/ year
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
SOFT = $ 1,584,000
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Category #2 Soft Dollar (greater than $ 100,000)
The Case
For a global healthcare leader, Cognizant automated the production monitoring system that resulted in high operational sustainability and efficiency with zero downtime
Benefits & Method of Calculation Average downtime in a month
Before 2 h / month
After Nil
Average no. of users affected during the downtime is 500+ and the number of hours affected is
Before 500 * 2h = 1000 h / month
After Nil
Savings = 1000 * $ 75 = $ 75,000 /
month = $ 900,000 / year
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
SOFT = $ 900,000
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Category #3 Soft Dollar (lesser than $ 100,000)
The Case
For a leading drug manufacturer, Cognizant optimized the SAS code that resulted in the dramatic reduction of data loading time
Benefits & Method of Calculation Avg. Time taken to load the data
Before 105 h / month
After 25 h / month
Time spent by personnel to monitor the data loading
Time to monitor 10 min / hour
Before 17.5 h / month
After 4.2 h / month
Savings = (17.5 4.2) * $ 25 = $ 332.5 / month
= $ 3990 / year
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
SOFT = $ 3, 990
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Category #4 Emerging Innovation
The Case
One of the leading Business Units of Cognizant developed a M2M Cloud based solution to address the changing lifestyle needs.
Reports, Analytics & BI pay per use model Business Model
HealthCare, Insurance, Retail, BPS and Communications practices bringing non linear revenue to the organization
Diet & nutrition specialists, fitness instructors, therapists across the Globe providing services
Solution applies to
Single Global cloud
Bluetooth based non invasive and mobile diagnostics
Multi-OS compatibility Windows and Google Android Technical Aspects
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
(Benefits yet to be realized)
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Category #4 Emerging Innovation
The Case
Cognizants GTO developed a Content based image search engine that can automate trademark screening enabling ease of search across geographies and bringing down time from few days to few
hours
Revenue Potential
Current analysis suggest that more than 10 vendors / partners could be targeted
with this solution
Cognizant could expect a few million dollars per customer implementation
* This case is for illustrative purposes only and may not be used outside of this context
Emerging Innovation (Benefits yet to be realized)
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