1. TATA STEEL IDEATION
CHALLENGE
(BIS-Assignment#4)
BY:
Neeraj Kumar 12BM60108
Aditya Dhatrak 12BM60105

2. INTRODUCTION
Tata Steel is the most well known and dominant
player in the steel industry in India.
Strong B2B relationship with suppliers and
business customers.
A top ten global steel maker.Geographically
diversified facilities – UK, The netherlands,
Thailand, Singapore, China
Internet penetration in India is at 10.2%(As of
Dec 2011).
India will have the 3rd largest internet savvy
population in the world by 2014 – Estimated to
be 700 million users.

3. Problem statement
To identify the current gap in the management
architecture of Tata Steel and to use any aspect of digital
technology like cloud, mobile, android, IoS etc to create
an application or a platform that can be integrated with
the strategic requirements of the company.

4. The gap
Considering its size and geographic
diversity ,the traditional IT systems like
ERP ,SCM and social media platforms are
not sufficient to integrate all levels of
management with employees, customers,
suppliers and distributors.
Lack of a common platform to engage
them in value creation through
knowledge sharing, e- learning, technical
collaboration etc

5. Proposal- Enterprise 2.0
Aims to help employees , customers,
suppliers collaborate, share and organize
information via web 2.0 technologies
The use of emerging social software
platforms within the company or in
between the company and its suppliers or
customers e.g. – use of social networking
site, blogs, wikis, web applications.

6. Open source software as a service
platform like OpenPro
Customized and configured to suit the
requirements of a manufacturing
company
Domains- Manufacturing,Financial,
Distribution, System,CRM, e-commerce
On the cloud- accesible to authorised
stakeholders around the world

8. Access to business data from anywhere around
the globe
Open architecture-runs on most hardwares,
operating system and SQL servers
Online training ,online manuals and online
support
Helps out to an extent with staff training
Enhanced collaboration and knowledge sharing
among employees
Provides students and institutions carrying out
research with a starting point as well as an insight
into the industry practices

9. PHPKB is an existing knowledge
sharing software available- existing
clients- AT&T, SKYRIVER, STERIS

10. Implementation Roadmap
Support from senior management
Assigning the configuration task to IT
executives
Training the value chain stakeholders to
use the new system

11. Cost estimates
A number of knowledge sharing
softwares available at nominal cost. To be
evaluated on the core requirements of
the company
Support cost but can be taken care of by
training the existing IT team