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Name of the Contest : CASE Wiz Season 2 Contest 2014
Location : India

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CASE Wiz Season 2 Contest 2014 :
Business scenario is changing every day. To stay ahead in the business companies have to do a lot of research and undergo transformation. In today’s world the Digital 5 Forces ‘Big Data and Analytics’, ‘Mobility and pervasive computing’, ‘Social media’, ‘Artificial Intelligence and Robotic’ and ‘Cloud computing’ play a key role in bringing in the transformation within a company.

TCS is a leading player in IT sector providing solutions using new age technologies for Re-imagining business. It is helping its global customers to simplify and transform their business using to stay ahead in the competition.

The CASE Wiz – Season 2 is an inter college competition aims to give MBA students from premier institutes an exposure to kind of real world business challenges and kind of role an IT company can play to stay competitive in industry.

The contest :
** CASE Wiz season-2 will be open for 1st and 2nd year students.
** Theme of the contest is “Re-imagination / Simplification of business using digital 5 forces”.
** The contest will be hosted on social collaboration platform of TCS for students fraternity called “Campus Commune” All stages of the contest right from registration to submissions will happen through campus commune. Campus Commune not only shares knowledge with students but also helps them to collaborate with other students and SMEs in the industry through its different activity centers. Path is https://nextstep.tcs.com > Campus Commune > Click on CASE Wiz banner. First time login to Nextstep portal will need to fill in basic details to generate a valid CT reference number.
** The competition will have a team structure. Each team will necessarily have 2 members. Participants will have to form their team in Campus Commune. A participant can be part of only one team.
** 2nd year students will have an option to choose their domain. There will be 2 separate case studies on the theme for 2nd year students, one in Manufacturing domain and other in Telecom domain. Each business unit will have its own rounds of submission and Grand Finale. Thus for 2nd year students there will be separate winning teams for both Manufacturing – ITG domain and Telecom domain.
** Registrations and team formation for the contest will begin first. In case of 2nd year students, once the team formation is done, they will have to choose their domain.
** Synopsis on the case study will be available on campus commune for reference while choosing the domain during registration phase. Once the registration phase is over detailed case studies will be available on Campus Commune.

Participation :
Students from below accredited CAT1 institutes only are eligible to participate in the contest.
** IIM Ahmedabad (PGP course)
** IIM Bangalore (PGP course)
** IIM Calcutta (PGP course)
** IIM Lucknow (PGP course)
** IIM Kozhikode (PGP course)
** IIM Indore (PGP course)
** SP Jain institute of Management and Research (PGDM Course)
** XLRI (BM course)
** NITIE (PGDIE and PGDIM course)
** Jamanalal Bajaj Institute of Management (MMS course)
** Xaviers Institute of Management (PGDM course)
** Great Lakes institute Management (PGPM course)
** MDI, Gurgaon (PGPM)
** Faculty Management Studies (MBA course)
** Indian institute of Foreign Trade (MBA International business)
** ISB (PGP)

Eligibility Criteria :
** Students from premier B-Schools in India mentioned above can participate in the contest
** 2nd year students with HR specialization are not eligible to participate

Register Here : https://nextstep.tcs.com/campus/
Participation Guidelines :
** The contest will be conducted through TCS’s students collaboration platform “Campus Commune”
** Interested students will have to register on TCSL NextStep for taking part in the contest.
** Reference # is mandatory for participating in the contest
** There will be team participation for the contest. Team formation done on Campus Commune
** After registration begin, all interested participants will be required to visit the contest on Campus Commune for forming the teams
** Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Online search engines may be used as reference, but copy pasting directly from the internet is highly discouraged.

Contest structure :
There will be 3 rounds in the contest for both 1st year and 2nd year.

Round 1 :
In the first round participating teams are required to submit blue print of the case study in prescribed format on Campus Commune before or on date of submission.
Blue print submitted by the team will be evaluated by a team of experts. Top 20 teams across the country will be adjudged as winners of round 1 based on evaluation parameters.

Round 2 (Semi Final) :
Participants are required to submit the detailed analysis of the case study in the prescribed format before the dead line. Top 5 teams will be announced as winners of Round 2

Round 3 (Grand Finale) :
Grand Finale will be conducted in one of TCS facilities. Winning teams will have to come to the venue for presentations. TCS will take care of their accommodation and travel.

(In case of case studies for 2nd year students, there will be separate submissions for Manufacturing and Telecom)

Guidelines to submit case study :
Participants are expected to submit analysis / solutions for Round 1 and Round 2 on-line in standard templates. There will be separate templates for Round 1 and Round 2 submissions. The templates for submission will be available on Campus Commune.

Prizes for 2nd year students :
Case Study for Manufacturing – ITG group :
** 1st Prize : INR 2,00,000 + PPO
** 2nd Prize : INR 1,00,000 + PPO
** Certificate of appreciation to remaining 3 finalists

Case Study for Telecom group :
** 1st Prize : INR 2,00,000 + PPO
** 2nd Prize : INR 1,00,000 + PPO
** Certificate of appreciation to remaining 3 finalists

Prizes for 1st year students (For Manufacturing – ITG group only) :
** 1st Prize : INR 75,000 + Summer Internship
** 2nd Prize : INR 50,000 + Summer Internship
** Certificate of appreciation to remaining 3 finalists

Important Dates :
Registration starts : 28th July
Registration closes : 3rd August
Submission for Round 1 : 17th August
Results of Round 1 : 31st August
Submission of Round 2 : 10th September
Results of Round 2 : 17th September
Round 3 (Grand Finale) : Last week of September

(There could be slight change in dates. Any change in dates will be communicated to the participants)

Terms and Conditions :
By entering the contest, each team and its members thereof confirms and agrees to the following terms and conditions :
** The participants acknowledge that the solution submitted will be an original work created solely by him / her, and that the solution does not infringe on copyrights, trademarks, moral rights, rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity, and that no other party has any right, title, claim, or interest in the solution.
** The solution must not contain content where any person/s would be required to undertake actions that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, violent, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous; that promotes racism or hatred against any group or individual or that promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; or that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in the state or province where the application is developed.
** The participants acknowledge that they are the sole author of the solution and that it is their original work.
** The participants have not licensed or disposed of any rights in the solution that would conflict with any of TCS use (if any).
** Participants who have submitted their solution is either the copyright owners of the component parts of that work or are posting the work under license from a copyright owner or otherwise as permitted by law. TCS does not claim ownership rights in your works or other materials posted by you.
** For the sole purpose of enabling TCS to make your solution available through TCS portal you grant TCS a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display your content. You agree not to distribute any part of the portal other than your content in any medium other than as permitted in these Terms and Conditions.
** Display or publication of any entry on a TCS website does not indicate the participants will be selected as a winner. TCS will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use.
** By entering this Contest, all entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless TCS from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities. TCS assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms.
** TCS reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel or terminate the Contest, at any time it deems fit and proper. No claims or representations shall be entertained in this regard.
** TCS reserves the right to relax any of these restrictions if permitted by law before the start of the Qualification Round.
** All contestants must have access to the Internet, a valid postal address, and a valid email address in order to enter the contest.
** TCS reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. TCS will be the sole authority to decide the winners of the contest and decision of TCS will be final and binding on all the contestants.
** At no point of time during the contest should internal stakeholders attempt to influence the events/ flow of the contest by way of guidance, pep up/ technology/ business case specific sessions for students in any institute participating for the contest. TCS team will ensure complete compliance to all guidelines enclosed in this document.

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