Categories of Participants

Entries are classified based on the selected six verticals :-

Entries are also categorized as Small, Medium or Large on the basis of number of employees.

Eligibility Criteria

The Awards are targeted at organisations across the following major cities:-
Delhi (NCR), Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad and Cochin, Kolkata

Only Companies with registered establishment in India can submit entries.
Entries to be restricted to a maximum of 5 divisions/offices per organization.

Evaluation and Selection Process

• Information regarding this event would be released by series of advertisements through various channels. Participants would be required to initially submit an online registration form to confirm their interest. These participants would be notified of the receipt of registration form by an automated e-mail confirmation. At the same time, participants would be given information on the Rules and Regulations of the event.
• They would also be requested to submit a detailed questionnaire along with supporting documents and an approximately 200 word note on Smart Workplace.
• Participants would be allowed to submit the required information no later than 4th June, 2008.
• Participants who fail to meet the deadlines would automatically be disqualified.
• Entries will be checked for completion of forms and submission of evidence pertaining to technology infrastructure, photos/brochures of the office, layout/design, security and access control information etc.
• On the basis of the volume of response received, entries that do not have adequate information will either be disqualified or called back through a call center in which case participants would be allowed further 3 days to submit the remaining information.
• Entries with complete information would be accepted for the next round of evaluation.
• From all the complete entries received, an evaluation team consisting of members from PricewaterhouseCoopers and ET would select 90 entries on the basis of a questionnaire and other supporting documents submitted by the participants.
• These 90 entries would form equal representation across catagories and verticals.
• Representatives of PricewaterhouseCoopers and ET would visit these offices for inspection and validation of the relevant information provided by the participants.
• Representatives of PricewaterhouseCoopers and ET would then provide their feedback of inspection and validation to the Jury members.
• Travel and logistics plan for the visits these offices across different cities would be finalized once all entries are short-listed for the visits.

Jury Process

Jury would comprise members from the following:

• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Times Group
• Industry experts of respective verticals from various organizations
• Other independent members from fields such as Human Resources, Architecture etc.

Jury members would select entries out of 90 on the basis of short note of 200 words, supporting documents submitted by the participants and the feedback received on the basis of visits by the jury.

Thus Jury members would select top entries for awards for each of six verticals and size (Small, Medium and Large).