October 05, 2006 - Bangalore

MindTree wins MAKE Award

Recognized Among Top Five Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises in India

MindTree Consulting, an international IT and R&D services company co-headquartered in New Jersey, U.S. and Bangalore, India, has just announced that it has been recognized as one of the five Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) in India by Teleos, in association with The KNOW Network.  This was announced at Infovision2006-The Knowledge Summit, where the MAKE Award was presented to MindTree.  The MAKE Award recognizes organizations that are leaders in effectively transforming enterprise knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions.

 

A panel of senior Indian business executives and leading India-based knowledge management/intellectual capital experts found MindTree among the top five winners for excellence in the area of knowledge management.  “We are honored to receive this recognition for our strategic knowledge management initiatives.  We believe knowledge is the most crucial ingredient in achieving organizational excellence.  Our goal is to be at the forefront of building intellectual capital, and through that, create unique and sustainable value for our customers, people and partners,” said MindTree Consulting Chairman & Managing Director, Ashok Soota.

 

MindTree’s Knowledge Management Function allows the firm to apply the collective experiences and knowledge of its people towards better service delivery, organizational excellence and learning. MindTree’s approach to Knowledge Management is holistic and takes a socio-technical approach, with a strong focus on building a knowledge-centric culture. The key thrust areas of KM in MindTree are innovation, collaboration and reuse.  Several deployed systems, processes, policies and social structures allow MindTree to leverage and build its knowledge and intellectual capital.

 

“We are delighted at this recognition as it comes only 3 short years after formalizing and launching our KM Function,” said MindTree Consulting General Manager and Head-Knowledge Management, Raj Datta. “We are continuing to develop competitive advantage through our KM approach.”

 

In the MAKE study performance dimensions, MindTree was the top ranked company in ‘Developing knowledge workers through senior management leadership’, and ranked second in ‘Delivering value based on customer knowledge’, and second in ‘Creating an enterprise knowledge-driven culture.’

 

Teleos, an independent knowledge management and intellectual capital research firm, administers the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) program. The KNOW Network is a Web-based global community of organizations dedicated to achieving superior performance through benchmarking, networking and best practice knowledge sharing.

About MindTree Consulting

MindTree Consulting is an international IT and R&D services company with development centers in India and the U.S.  The Company provides end-to-end project execution through a hybrid delivery model called OneShore™.

Founded seven years ago in Bangalore, India, MindTree has grown to a more than 3,900-strong team providing IT and R&D solutions to Global 2000 companies. The company offers IT services in application development and maintenance, business intelligence solutions, ERP and supply chain management, testing, Mainframe and iSeries support and enhancement.  MindTree also provides R&D Services in the areas of product and board design, operating systems, protocol engineering, embedded applications, product testing and licensing of intellectual properties.

MindTree has been named the leading service provider in the “Human Capital Development” category by Global Services magazine.  MindTree was also among the top 10 leading IT service providers worldwide on the publication’s inaugural 2006 Global Services 100 ranking.  MindTree was rated among the world’s top 30 offshoring service providers by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.  MindTree also figures in several best employer surveys that it participated in during the last three years.  For more information, please visit www.mindtree.com .