AWARD PROCESS

Step 1: Identify "Award Categories" and design award process :

• Identify key sectors in the economy that have helped India move up on the World scale on aspects like contribution to GDP, privatization & globalization, foreign trade etc. Define such sectors as "Award Categories"
• Design the award process to objectively identify the nominees

Step 2: Develop "Nomination Universe" and short list companies in each category :

• Identify key companies in each category using information within public domain
• Undertake research on these companies & sectors
• Apply Filtering Criteria* for shortlisting companies in each category
  *Filtering criteria varies from industry to industry based on desirable characteristic of leaders in the respective categories

Step 3: Interaction with "Short listed Companies" :

• Design specific questionnaires for each specific category using parameters* identified for demonstrating leadership. *The parameters are identified to reflect the Company's' performance and relevant aspects which demonstrate its leadership position
• Forward the questionnaires to all the short listed companies and follow up for completion within predetermined timelines

Step 4:Identify "Nominees" :

• Assess the performance of the short listed companies using ranking parameters to identify the Nominees (typically top 5 ranks)

Step 5: Jury meeting :

• Prepare jury docket
• Participate in jury meeting
• Suggest the process of selecting final winner to Jury
• Collate votes given by Jury
• Ascertain the winner in each category based on the votes received

Disclaimer
This document is meant for limited circulation among the members of the jury of NDTV Business Leadership Awards 2008 and is prepared to facilitate comparative assessment of the nominees under different categories of the awards. The information contained in this document has been compiled or arrived at from sources believed to be reliable but is not to be relied upon as authoritative or taken in substitution for the exercise of judgment by any recipient. Grant Thornton shall not accept any liability whatsoever for any direct or consequential loss howsoever arising from any use of this document or its contents or otherwise arising in connection herewith.