TAS, was conceived by J. R. D. Tata, the late chairman of the Tata Group, in 1957. His dream of selecting and grooming some of the best young talent by providing them opportunities for professional growth, and using that pool of talent as a group resource — one that could be tapped by companies across the Tata organization, completes its 50th year of existence this year.
TAS formerly known as Tata Administrative Services has unique way of judging the candidature – Case Study and Group Discussion. The instructions for Case study are:

1. The case study requires to analyze the situation from the time frame that has been mentioned as a part of the case study and not from the time as it stands today. You will have to therefore consider the timeline mentioned in the case study.
2. You can use external data to support your assumptions but all the external data should be relevant to the timeline mentioned in the case study
3. If you think that some data-points are incorrect in the case study,(as some of you currently think that is) mention the same when you present your case to the panel and also highlight why you think so. This will change all the assumptions and hence the output and therefore it is important to state this upfront before starting the presentation.  
4. The issues and the problem statement need to be identified by you in the case study as per your understanding of the case as the purpose of this exercise is to understand your thought process. Some basic things that you should look for are as follows:
   • How big a bet should be placed on Nano. One of the ways for deciding that will be the production capacity
   • What should Tata Motors do to defend Nano’s competitive advantage
   • What should be the global strategy for Nano
5. Please note that the above mentioned issues are just to give all of you a direction and they are not the ONLY issues you should address. The idea behind the case study is to understand your thought process and hence you are required to  put together your thoughts and come up with a plan.
6. The format of the presentation which has been sent to you earlier is a guiding tool, you will get a total of 20 minutes to present your presentation, please structure your presentation accordingly.

Case Studies topics

The topics of case studies are mostly from Harvard business Review like the topic for 2011 is a case Study on Nano and topic for 2010 was Acquiring Nusantara Communications Inc. The topics are varied in terms of business problems the business house is facing.

How we help

We help to analyse the case and present in the format as suggested by TAS:

• Case Overview
• Key Issues 
• SWOT Analysis
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Recommended Strategy in Detail

Our Inputs

General Education consultant will work with you through and through for preparing you with the final presentation and spreadsheet of the case. The steps would be as:

• Analyzing the case
• Brainstorming, sharing case notes
• Sharing the worked out spreadsheet with candidate
• One more brainstorming session to finalize the presentation points (the logic of those points coming from worked out spreadsheet)
• Sharing final presentation
• Review the presentation and final draft sharing for presentation to TAS

2012 Case Study

House of Tata: Acquiring Global Footprint, by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G Palepu & Richard J Bullock

The case template is changed slightly this year and is different from the pattern followed from last 2-3 years. The format of Case Presentation goes like:

• Case Overview
• Key issues as per the case
• Tata Group's performance today with respect to the above issues
• Analyze M&A performance of any Tata company