GIIS innovative approach to education delivery and business excellence practices has won recognition with the prestigious Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award (GPIPSA) 2012 by the Institute of Directors. GPIPSA is designed to encourage systemic innovation in organisations, in order to offer products and services required for the 21st century. The award was presented to the GIIS team by Lt Gen J S Ahluwalia, PVSM (retd), President, Institute of Directors, Lt Gen Surinder Nath, PVSM, AVSM, (retd), former Chairman, UPSC and Vice Chairman, Institute of Directors and Prof Colin Coulson-Thomas, Chairman of Adaptation Ltd, Policy Publications Ltd, Bryok Systems and Cotoco Ltd, UK, on February 9, 2013, at a distinguished gathering of business leaders, jurists, achievers from varied industries and verticals during the 23rd World Congress on Leadership and Quality of Governance in Bangalore, India. GIIS Team members present at the award ceremony included Mr Atul Temurnikar, Chairman and Co-founder, GSF, Mr B G Shenoy, Director, GCEE, Mr Rajiv Vasudeva, Country Director, (Singapore), GIIS, Mr Kaustubh Bodhankar, Deputy CEO, GSF, GIIS Principals Ms Meenakshi Mehta, Ms Madhu Khanna and Ms Melissa Maria as well as Commander Bharat Unercat, Director, Business Development and Infrastructure, GSF.

(L-R) Mr Rajiv Vasudeva, Lt Gen J S
Ahluwalia, Mr Atul Temurnikar, Lt Gen
Surinder Nath and Mr BG Shenoy

"For GIIS, this is a great beginning to 2013," said GSF Chairman and Co-founder Mr Atul Temurnikar. "Its an honour for us to win the prestigious Golden Peacock award for innovative product, practices, services and offerings in Education Excellence. Congratulations to GCEE and academic teams from GIIS Singapore campuses, Principals, teachers and students."

Expressing happiness at the win, Mr B G Shenoy, Director, Global Centre for Education Excellence, said, "The award is a testimony for GIIS relentless efforts towards developing and deploying innovative teaching and learning approaches in line with our Vision, effectively and efficiently across all segments, to ensure every child learns happily. The award is a validation for our innovative tool used to predict results and plan results with appropriate action plans is Scientific, Logical and well accepted and rightly acknowledged by a reputed team of assessors and distinguished Jury."

The custodians of Golden Peacock Award;
Mr Atul Temurnikar and Mr BG Shenoy

"The GIIS academic and GCEE teams have highlighted academic excellence at GIIS schools by winning such a distinguished award. Congratulations to all the team members," conveyed Mr Rajiv Vasudeva, Country Director (Singapore), GIIS.

Innovation at GIIS was assessed on the use of current technology to achieve maximum customer satisfaction at minimum cost. The Global Educational Excellence Model (GEEM) of GIIS is based on 7 pillars of quality which are GSF Values Differentiator, World Class processes - Teaching and Learning, Total Involvement of All Stake Holders and Community, Alignment to our Vision Mission & Values, Creativity and Personality Development, Innovation Knowledge Management Academic centre and Information Technology, Sharing & Learning leading to Schools that learn. This model was institutionalised at GIIS campuses across Singapore in 2008 and is evaluated and improved on a continuous basis which has led the schools to win 21 national and international awards.

(L to R) Ms Madhu Khanna, Principal - GIIS
East Coast Campus, Ms Melissa Maria, Principal -
GIIS Balestier Campus and Ms Meenakshi Mehta,
Principal - GIIS Queenstown Campus

Through statistical models developed by GIIS, the 7S analyses the school chain is able to pro-actively predict the results of students in all spheres of learning and execute action plans to ensure that every child is taken to the next level of competency. It is a very cost effective, most wanted service towards stake holders thus satisfying their unexpected wishes and inarticulate needs. This model has been assessed by more than 100 quality assessors from various national and international award bodies and rated GEEM as the core competency of GIIS. This fact-based approach has created a key competitive differentiation for GIIS towards 21st century learning.

The Golden Peacock Awards were initiated by Institute of Directors, an apex association of Directors, in 1991. The Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat receives over 1000 entries each year for various awards, from over 25 countries worldwide.

Previous winners in this award category include Hindustan Unilever Limited (FMCG; 2011), Samsung India Electronics (Electronics; 2011), CavinKare Pt Ltd (Consumer Products; 2010) and Tata Consultancy Services (Consultancy; 2009).

The Golden Peacock Awards Secretariat invited applications for the following Institutional awards for the year 2012 from the corporate sector including SMEs, Public Private and Government Enterprises:

1. Golden Peacock National Quality Award (GPNQA)
2. Golden Peacock National Training Award (GPNTA)
3. Golden Peacock Innovative Product/ Service Award (GPIPSA)

Total 173 applications were shortlisted after critical scrutiny for final selection through a 3-tier Assessment Process from 320 responses.

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