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Company: Wipro Limited
Company Description: Wipro is a $ 5 bn global consulting, technology & outsourcing services Co.Ranked amongst Top 10 companies by Fortune Global Outsourcing 100 Listings, it has:25yr track record of collaborating with customers & making them successful;Over 95,000 employees in 54 countries;Deep domain expertise & experience. Differentiators include our people, our passion & focus on customer.
Nomination Category: Human Resources Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Human Resources Executive of the Year
Nomination Title: Pratik Kumar, Executive Vice President - HR, Brand & Corporate Communications, Wipro Limited.
1. Tell the story about what this nominee achieved (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
Pratik’s leadership has been instrumental in helping Wipro grow from a revenue
of $475M & ~10,000 employees in 2001, to a $5 Billion & 95,000 people global
corporation in 2009. He joined Wipro in 1991, when Wipro was an India based IT
company, and is one of the key leaders who enabled the company’s
transformation to a Top 10 Global Outsourcing company. Pratik brings with him
a fine blend of business appreciation and people sensitivity. As a result he
has the ability to look at problems holistically and come up with win-win
solutions. His ability to assess and develop talent has led to Wipro being
recognized as one of the top companies for leadership.
Pratik has been at the forefront of several innovative initiatives at Wipro.
To address the shortage of talent in the IT industry in the mid 90’s, the
company developed the Wipro Academy of Software Excellence- a work while you
learn program. Undergrads were hired into the company and got training and a
Master’s degree from a top university, while working on projects. This program
won the Best practice Award in the area of Corporate/College partnership from
Corporate University Xchange, and is a flagship talent source for Wipro. A
more recent initiative is Mission 10X, which aims to promote systematic
changes in engineering education, by collaborating with Academia to enhance
the employability of graduating engineers. It involves a layered set of
capability building workshops with academia.
He is on a constant lookout for raising the bar for the HR team by adopting
processes from other disciplines – including applying Six Sigma principles for
improving HR process efficiency or Customer Centricity to drive a stronger
culture of internal customer orientation.
Being in a technology company, Pratik was an early adopter and leveraged Web
2.0 & 3.0 technologies to effectively engage and build a collaborative
workplace. An active blogger on the Wipro intranet, Pratik also holds regular
employee webchats. The HR team has utilized the new media like blogs,
knowledge networks, streaming media, instant messages, social networking &
virtual reality to effectively engage with a multi generational, multi-
lingual, globally distributed workforce. Wipro as an organization has always
stood the test of time when it comes to knowing and owning its moral compass;
and Pratik embodies this standard. The culture of openness is promoted and
information is shared – whether the news is good or bad.
Wipro’s work in the HR area has got numerous awards & accolades including the
following:
• ASTD’s (American Society for Training and Development) ‘BEST’ award
each year from 2004 to 2008.
• Hewitt ‘Top Companies for Leaders- Wipro featured 4th in India, 5th
in Asia, 20th globally (2007).
• The Great Place to Work- Best Employers Survey 2008- Wipro BPO ranked
in the Top 50
• Wipro BPO - Best Employer in India in the Best Employers Hewitt Survey
(2007), Ranked 11th amongst Top 25
• Dale Carnegie Global Leadership Award for 2007
Pratik is invited to be part of many industry forums like Corporate
Leadership Council (CLC) and Nasscom. More recently he was part of the
Strategic HR Leadership program, National Human Resource Development (NHRD),
Kolkatta, as lead facilitator & was a Corporate Leadership Council(CLC)
Panelist for “Leading HR through the Economic Crisis : A Perspective from
India”.
2. List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
Hottest young executive (2004) – by BT
http://xlalumni.blogspot.com/2004/07/bt-survey-of-hottest-young-executives.html
The journey at wipro –
http://www.greatplacetowork.in/education/presentations/The-Journey-of-an-Indian-Multinational.pdf
Wipro grooming gennext managers –http://portal.bsnl.in/intranetnews.asp? url=/bsnl2/content%20mgmt/html%20content/business/business80818.html
Global Leadership award – Dale Carnegie –
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/information-technology/200702021777.htm
The HR team showcasing Wipro and HR Best Practices (empowering the team)
Raja (Wipro HR) article on byline magazine -
http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com/news/895619/future-HR---web-20-beyond/
Presentation by Supriti Bhandary (Wipro – HR) for TMEDA –
http://www.tmeda.net/events/2006/docs/presentation/June%207%20Key%20Note/Jun%2007%20Keynote%20Wipro.pdf
Mission 10X : http://www.mission10x.com/Home.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252f&Source=%2f;www.mission10X.com
http://www.mission10x.com/mission-10x/Documents/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Mission10x%20Hyderabad%20Press%20Release%20Final.pdf
Member of National HRD network- on the board –
http://www.nationalhrd.org/board-members.php
Member of NASSCOM board –
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=5387
A few popular initiatives under the guidance of the HR leader:
No.1 green brand of the year – http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ITeS/Wipro-rated-number-one-Green-Brand-in-india-among-top-5-in-world/articleshow/4370880.cms
Our eco-eye corporate site –
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Nov_13/ai_n16836364/
Spirit of Wipro run – http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=140883
Fit for life – http://www.employerbrandingawards.com/award0809_mumbai.htm
http://thestevies.com/IBA09Attachments/Wipro/wipro.pdf
3. Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about this nominee:
As a member of the Human Resources Team at Wipro for the past 17 years, Pratik
Kumar has been closely associated with Wipro’s growth and has played a
significant role in shaping it into a strong global player known for its HR
best practices.
Being part of an industry that is highly people intensive, Pratik and his team
of HR professionals have architected Wipro on a strong base of competencies,
with the Wipro Competency Framework becoming a key vitalizing source for
talent management.
As an HR practitioner with over 20 years of experience, Pratik has experience
in a variety of areas in Human Resources. Currently as HR leader at Wipro, his
key mandate is to ensure Wipro’s success and growth through best in class HR
Practices. Pratik represents Wipro as the Executive Council Member of NASSCOM
(National Association of Software and Services Companies) and is on the Board
of National HRD Network. Pratik also leads Corporate Brand and Communication
function and is a member of the Corporate Executive Council of Wipro.
Pratik is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur, a reputed Business School in India
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