What is the product/service portfolio of ITpreneurs? What is the concept behind game-based training for professionals?

ITpreneurs is in the business of providing high-end competency development solutions for IT. Primarily in the niche domains of IT Service Management and IT Governance. Some of these are ISO 20000, ITIL, COBIT, ISO 27001… Also supporting frameworks such as Prince2.

ITpreneurs portfolio comes straight from the horses’ mouth, if you will. This is because the people who wrote or work on the development of these frameworks have been the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) that work on developing our courses. The courses are built as a joint effort between these SMEs and qualified instructional designers. This collaboration ensures that the training solutions in ITpreneurs’ portfolio are not only best-in-class content, but are also best-in-class learning. They are designed to ease and enable learning.

Game-based training is an approach that makes learning immersive, experiential, easy and fun. For example, our COBIT Games. It’s an intense half-day multi-player game. As participants play this game, they learn the various concepts of IT Governance as described in the COBIT framework. Games is a great way to learn tough concepts and practices.

Who are your major clients and what is your footprint in India?

ITpreneurs works in the partner model. This makes it possible for us to work with pretty much anyone in the industry. We therefore consider we do not have competition. What does this mean? Our partners work with us not just to build competency within their own organizations, but also to provide training to their client organizations.

ITpreneurs is unique in that we do not do consultancy. Most organizations providing training do so as an addition to their core consulting business. They often find themselves in competitive scenarios with each other. However, anyone can work with us without feeling threatened, as we only come in to provide the training component in the larger consulting assignment. We have a significant footprint in India, and are steadily increasing it. We work with some of the largest training providers in India, as well as some of the largest IT and consulting companies.

How do you look at your India business?

Essentially because of our partner-based model, ITpreneurs is able to forge relationships and build the business without too many feet on the ground. ITpreneurs sees India as a strategic geography, and our aim is to not only establish a long-term presence and brand name in India, but also look at establishing a division to provide India specific solutions.

Because of India's role in the global IT industry today, there are specific needs that IT companies and departments have in India which are different in the way they are best addressed. This is where ITpreneurs wishes to make its mark. Our commitment to India is strong – after all, we have been present in India since the start of the company almost 10 years back.