XStrat

If your ideas can disrupt the future, Vedanta is looking for you!

XStrat is Vedanta’s maiden B-School case challenge open for select institutes across India, determined to rise and transform the future. This is your noble chance to work on real-life business challenges and get mentored by the Senior Leadership and Management of Vedanta.

We want you to strategize your idea for the bigger picture—Turn your dreams into reality and impossible into possible with XStrat!

Does your strategy have the X-factor? Let’s find out.

Eligibility Criteria & Team Formulation:

• The participating team must have 3 members from the same institute.
• The competition is open to all first and second-year students of full-time 2-year PGP programmes from the 32 specified B-Schools.
• 1-year PGP program students of only ISB are eligible to apply.
• Cross-specialization and cross-year teams are allowed.
• Executive program students are not eligible to register.
• Teams with gender-diverse compositions will be encouraged.
• All the team members are required to verify and confirm their details to form a team.
• A student can be a part of only one team.
• Vedanta reserves to check the validity of the registration information submitted at any point of time.
• Any deviation from the above-mentioned guidelines will result in the immediate disqualification of the entire team.

Details of the Rounds:

Preliminary Quiz Round-

• All the registered students can attempt the online quiz based on Strategy and Analytical Thinking on Tuesday, 7th December, any time between 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
• The quiz window will be open for 3 hours.
• Participating students will get a set of 25 questions where each question needs to be answered in 75 seconds.
• All team members will play the quiz individually.
• The final score will be ascertained by taking the average of all team members’ scores.
• Teams will be ranked on accuracy (score) and speed (time of the last question answered). This means that if two teams have the same score, then the team that answered their last question earlier will be ranked higher.
• Participating students will move on to the next level based on their performance in this assessment.

Case Launch Event -

• The Vedanta team will take you through their journey, share their experiences of working on different brands/projects and delve deeper into the cases at hand.
• Get a chance to interact with our senior leadership with strategic expertise and work on refining your ideas.

Case Submission Round-

• Teams will have an option to choose from multiple cases and submit their ideas/solutions for any one case. 
• Teams will be required to submit a 5 or 6-slider PPT of their proposed solution.
• All the teams are requested to submit their entries a few hours before the deadline to avoid any last-minute hassle.
• Top 15 teams will be identified as Qualifiers, and 8 National Finalist teams will be further identified to move to the Grand Finale.

Masterclasses- 

• The top teams recognized will be assigned a mentor to help them enhance and further build their cases.
• Students will experience the different elements of Vedanta Interaction with experts to get first-hand experience of the industry with sessions on Strategy, Branding and Marketing.
• Sessions will be organized on how to crack the problem statements and channelize thought processes, thereby walking the students through all the aspects from consumer journey, segmentation, targeting to insights, triggers, barriers, etc.

Grand Finale-

• The 8 National Finalists will present to the senior leadership of Vedanta in a virtual Grand Finale to vie for the Winner's title.

Advance skillfully and you will have the chance to win cash prizes & goodies, visit our business unit(s), have a Gala Dinner with the senior management of Vedanta and more!

Your strategy is the key. Are you in?