Wipro Tops Global MAKE Award 2007

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it has been recognized as a winner of the 2007 Global MAKE Award and was ranked first in the Information Technology sector in 'Creating an environment for collaborative knowledge sharing' and 'Creating a learning organization' categories, thereby delivering value based on customer knowledge. MAKE stands for Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises and the awards were established in 1998. This is the second time that Wipro Technologies has been recognized as a Global MAKE winner.

The MAKE Winners are chosen by a panel of Fortune 500 business executives and leading knowledge management and intellectual capital experts after an initial short-listing based on nominations by the panel. The Global MAKE study recognizes organizations which are world leaders in creating shareholder wealth (or in the case of public and non-profit organizations, increasing societal capital) by transforming new as well as existing enterprise knowledge and intellectual capital into superior products/services/solutions. The awards are administered by Teleos, an independent knowledge management and intellectual capital research firm.

Rory Chase, Managing Director of Teleos, said "The MAKE Winners are effectively transforming organizational knowledge into wealth-creating ideas, products and solutions. They are building portfolios of intellectual capital which will enable them to out-perform their global competitors. Wipro Technologies has consistently emerged as a leading knowledge-driven organization over the last several MAKE studies and if it maintains the same momentum and focus, it could well be on its way to being a Global Top 5 in its business sector in the next three years".

Wipro Technologies has also won the 2007 Asian MAKE Award, fifth time in a row, which was presented in a glittering ceremony in the World Knowledge Forum held at Seoul, South Korea on 18th October.

Expressing happiness at these recognitions for Wipro's knowledge initiatives at global, regional and national levels, Mr. Sambuddha Deb, Chief Quality Officer, Wipro Technologies said, "In a knowledge intensive business like IT, effective knowledge management is a significant business differentiator especially as we are diversifying our presence globally. These recognitions are an affirmation of our strategy to make Wipro a true learning organization".

In addition, Wipro Technologies also received the 2007 Indian MAKE Award third time in a row in KM India 2007 organized by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) at New Delhi on 14th November.

Ved Prakash, Head of Knowledge Management at Wipro Technologies said, "We are very pleased that Wipro has also been inducted into the 2007 Global MAKE Hall of Fame which is an elite group of organizations that have been Global MAKE Finalists in each of the past five studies. This is an affirmation of the mature KM practices in Wipro that are on par with the best in the world."

Wipro Technologies has been running a structured Knowledge Management program since the year 2000 which ensures that all of its 75000 plus employees across the globe have access to the deep expertise lying within the organization. Wipro has implemented a web-enabled portal built on Microsoft SharePoint to manage documented knowledge and operate virtual communities of practice. The Global MAKE study has found that knowledge-driven organizations significantly out-perform their competitors.

About Teleos

Teleos is 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.

The MAKE research program, conducted in association with The KNOW Network, consists of the annual Global MAKE study - the international benchmark for world-class knowledge-driven organizations - and regional/national MAKE studies.

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