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   VISTA 2005 @ IIM Bangalore

Foursight 2005: Cognizant International Case Competition

Writing a case, within the four corners of the wall, without testing the practical feasibility of the solution is what we are used to. However, life in the corporate world is not such a comfortable ride. FOURSIGHT, allows you to work on any of the four real-life business cases: to formulate, strategize, resolve and present your solution as a real world executive.

Cognizant has been a leading provider of IT services. Cognizant is focused on delivering strategic information technology solutions that address the complex business needs of its clients.

The second quarter revenue increased to $211.7 million in 2005, up 53% from the year-ago quarter. While the growth prospects for Cognizant seem very promising, Lakshmi Narayanan, the CEO of Cognizant wants to take this one step further by venturing into new businesses and expanding their existing ones to add punch to Cognizant's offerings and be a step ahead of the competition.

He mandates Prashanth and his team of corporate strategy consultants to come up with an innovative and comprehensive plan to address this issue. Prashanth has been used to work under a time crunch, but in this case, it's a matter of 100 hours that he has at his disposal. Prashanth is looking for three bright individuals who can help him out with the problem he is addressing.

The international case competition provides a platform to all students to put on their thinking caps and provide innovative solutions to real-time problems faced by people in the corporate world. This event, will address four real-time issues faced by Cognizant and the teams are supposed to come up with practical and innovative solutions to business problems.

Prizes

1st Prize: USD 1,500 / INR 65,000
2nd Prize: USD 750 / INR 35,000

The prize money would be dependant on the winner team being International / Indian.

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Forum for Industrial Interaction,
IIM Bangalore.