ITpreneurs, is a content and instruction provider for IT best-practices training and workshops, which believes in the principle of Confucius: 'Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. In an interaction with Sudhakaran of CIOL, Anuradha Madhusudhanan, South Asia Region Head, ITpreneurs India, talks about the company's footprint in India, how it enables IT professionals and much more: Excerpts

IT is a major provider of jobs for the professionals everywhere. What is the value addition that ITpreneurs India provides to the IT professionals and how does the training work?

Indeed. And ITpreneurs sits in the middle of this paradigm. As a provider of best-in-class IT competency development solutions, ITpreneurs is a key enabler of IT professionals and organizations alike.

ITpreneurs supports individuals by helping them grow their skills and competencies, and in becoming certified professionals, which in turn helps them fulfill IT workforce requirements.

Towards IT organizations, ITpreneurs’ role is significant as it helps them grow their organizations’ competencies in the IT Best Practices and Governance domains, which in turn enables them to compete at a global level.

So in essence, we keep innovating to add value in the competency development objectives of individuals and organizations. To that end, all our products and services provide such value additions. Be they in any of the IT Best Practice Frameworks – ITIL, COBIT, ISO 20000, Prince2, ISO 27001…

Could you explain the ITIL expert program and how does it help the IT professionals in their career?

The Expert Program is an advanced-level training in the IT Best Practice framework of ITIL v3. While the ITIL foundation course comprises concepts, processes, much like any other foundation course, the ITIL Intermediate courses are very high-end, application-oriented courses. After successful certification at the foundations level, IT professionals seeking to advance their careers in the IT services domain choose to take a set of Intermediate courses aligned to their chosen career path.

ITpreneurs’ Expert Program offering is a concentrated 10 to 12-day study camp that combines a set of Intermediate-level courses. The Expert Program makes you an ITIL Expert in about half the time it would normally take you, if you were to take the courses one by one.

That’s one advantage. The Expert Program combines a unique blend of delivery mediums that are built on scientific models of how people learn.

So in less than half the training time, ITpreneurs guarantees superior on-the-job performance improvement. These are very high-end, application-oriented courses. They use tested and proven instructional design principles that ensure the participants not only gain the knowledge levels required, but also demonstrate significant performance improvement on the job.