E-BUSINESS

E-Business Readiness Survey and Award

INTRODUCTION

E-Business is a revolution that is transforming companies round the world, and it is impacting all the industries. E-business is much more than online purchase and implementation of computer applications by the IT departments; or putting up a company website.

E-business affects the whole business and the value chains in which it operates. It enables a much more integrated level of collaboration between the different components of a value chain than ever before. Adopting e-Business also allows companies to reduce costs and improve customer response time. Organizations that transform their business practices stand to benefit immensely from innumerable new possibilities brought about by technology.

Although it's early days for e-Business in India, we believe there are greater opportunities over the long term for India and Indian businesses. There is urgent need to usher in farsighted policies & practices to become a major economic force in the emerging world of E-Business.

I am pleased to inform you that FICCI is instituting an award to recognize E-Business Readiness among Indian companies. The selection process is being supported by an extensive survey of Indian companies being conducted by IMRB. The award will recognize the commendable work done by companies in adopting E-Business tools, solutions and practices.

OBJECTIVE

To measure the E-Business readiness of organizations in the country and award the users displaying best-in-class performance.

To address the above objective, the following information areas will be addressed at an overall level:

• Current IT infrastructure of organizations.
• Current level of awareness of various e-Biz tools and solutions available in Indian market.
• Current level of interest in using e-Biz tools and solutions.
• Current level of usage of these e-Biz tools and solutions.
• Various business processes of organizations
• Extent of automation and integration of these processes
• Benefits of deploying e-Business Tools to the organization

ELIGIBILITY

Companies meeting following criteria are eligible to apply for these awards:

• The organization should be registered in India under the companies act.
• The organization should be operating in India at least for last 3 years through their Indian registered office.
  
  The group holding companies cannot participate in the awards - however, the companies within the group can participate as individual entities (e.g., Aditya Vikram Birla group would not be eligible to apply, however, Hindalco would be allowed)
  
  Participation would be limited to the companies falling in the following verticals only.

Nine awards will be presented (One award for the Best overall e-Business readiness and one award within each of the eight categories).

For participating in these awards please fill-up the Assessment Form.
Guidelines for filling up the form and a list of FAQs are also provided for your convenience.

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• FAQs

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