Wipro - MAKE award

Wipro Ltd has informed that Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of the Company on November 27, 2007 announced that it has been recognized as a winner of the 2007 Global MAKE Award and was ranked first in the Information Technology sector in 'Creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing' and 'Creating a learning organization' categories, thereby delivering value based on customer knowledge MAKE stands for Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises and the awards were established in 1998. This is the second time that Wipro Technologies has been recognized as a Global MAKE winner.

The MAKE Winners are chosen by a panel of Fortune 500 business executives and leading knowledge management and intellectual capital experts after an initial short-listing based on nominations by the panel. The Global MAKE study recognizes organizations which are world leaders in creating shareholder wealth (or in the case of public and non-profit organizations, increasing societal capital) by transforming new as well as existing enterprise knowledge and intellectual capital into superior products / services / solutions. The awards are administered by Teleos, an independent knowledge management and intellectual capital research firm.

Wipro Technologies has also won the 2007 Asian MAKE Award, fifth time in a row, which was presented in a glittering ceremony in the World Knowledge Forum held at Seoul, South Korea on October 18th.

Expressing happiness at these recognitions for Wipro's knowledge initiatives at global, regional and national levels, Mr. Sambuddha Deb, Chief Quality Officer, Wipro Technologies said, "In a knowledge intensive business like IT, effective knowledge management is a significant business differentiator especially as we are diversifying our presence globally. These recognitions are an affirmation of our strategy to make Wipro a true learning organization".

In addition, Wipro Technologies also received the 2007 Indian MAKE Award third time in a row in KM India 2007 organized by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) at New Delhi on November 14th.

Ved Prakash, Head of Knowledge Management at Wipro Technologies said, "We are very pleased that Wipro has also been inducted into the 2007 Global MAKE Hall of Fame which is an elite group of organizations that have been Global MAKE Finalists in each of the past five studies. This is an affirmation of the mature KM practices in Wipro that are on par with the best in the world."

Wipro Technologies has been running a structured Knowledge Management program since the year 2000 which ensures that all of its 75000 plus employees across the globe have access to the deep expertise lying within the organization. Wipro has implemented a web-enabled portal built on Microsoft Sharepoint to manage documented knowledge and operate virtual communities of practice. The Global MAKE study has found that knowledge-driven organizations significantly out-perform their competitors.