Xellentro builds long lasting bond with clients by providing right solutions and trainings
Management Consulting is a huge industry with many firms offering a variety of innovative and comprehensive services to bring efficiency in clients' businesses. And while almost all consulting firms claim to offer a great opportunity, there are few differentiating factors that can help you target your needful. With mission to make you more productive in this competitive age, Xellentro (a leading management consulting firm)with their unique proven methodology decodes the science of productivity in the current vast competitive market. Xellentro is a global leader in providing project, program and portfolio management consulting and training services by delivering meaningful and lasting results through value added training and consulting services. Incepted in the year 2012, the company has people whose sole job is to make each of clients complete satisfied. With proven track record, they are a group of passionate and experienced professionals that have a wealth valuable knowledge, skills and zeal. Headquarters in Bangalore, India, Xellentro works closely with its clients in tackling their most difficult organizational development challenges. The company offers its services in a variety of formats with their proven cost-effective consulting and training programs that ensures you maximize your business efficiency.
Implementing management consultation in various corporate including IT and non-IT, is a challenge on account of various factors, which Xellentro has successfully achieved by adopting customer centric approach rather than traditional product centric approach. Thoroughly analyzing your business needs, industry and over all requirements, the company delivers tailor-made, cost-competitive, scalable and robust consultant solutions.
Xellentro's experience in providing trainings like PRINCE2 Certifications, Knowledge Combos, DevOps Certifications, Project Program Portfolio Management and others translates into a differentiated value proposition and stimulates time-to-market for clients. The company already delivers comprehensive services to many businesses. Xellentro's transparent, efficient and flexible world class business consultant and trainings process zero downs risks of project failures and creates powerful solutions that meet present as well as future demands.
Startup City Magazine conducts an exclusive interview with NiladriChoudhuri – Founder and CEO
How and why did you decide to create it? How does it sit within the entrepreneurial ecosystem of India today?
I felt that there is a big gap in the area of process improvements, whether it is corporate or startups. I wanted to share my knowledge and experience in improving the process of the organizations whatever stage they are to enable them to provide better product and service to their clients and achieve the maximum growth possible.
Entrepreneurs get to know about sales, funding but very rarely see the focus on the management and delivery. Hence, Portfolio, Program, Project Management, Service Management, Agile, DevOps are necessary for organizations today not only to grow but to also survive.
What problem does your company solve and how are you different from others in the field?
While the realm of Management Consulting is vast and a number of firms provide a range of advisory services – starting from niche areas to general management domains – what differentiates us is our practitioner's approach where we don't limit ourselves only to advisory and rather prefer to stay on till envisaged benefits are realized and final outcomes are delivered. We bring in huge experience across industry verticals and geographies which make us confident enough to put our neck into the stake when it comes to achieving envisaged benefits and values.
Who is the company's ideal customer and how does the company currently approach them?
Any corporate both in IT and non-IT organization are our customers who is into product development or any service. However, IT organizations are more relevant. Startups are also good candidates as they need to focus on delivery too. Only Sales and Funding will not do.
How did the company get to where it is today?
We directly connected to contacts that I knew and also through LinkedIn. We have also created partnership with various organizations for marketing and sales. Personal connect, cold calling and LinkedIn are our tools along with alliance with various partners.
Can you tell me more about the founding of the company and what the problem is that you were addressing?
I left my job and started Xellentro in August 2012. It is my wife and myself as partners and formed an LLP. We wanted to make sure we have proper legal entity.
The biggest challenge was hiring and then sales. Even though we can manage the sales, hiring is still big challenge.
Is hiring a challenge for a startup?
Hiring has been a challenge for start-ups. It is always good to hire a person who is already familiar with mission, values and work culture of the other organization always benefit a business if the prospective candidate is positively influenced by the information he or she is equipped with. But instead of these, most of the candidates expect more than the capability of any startup in term of salary, infrastructure and perks.
Startups need people with the passion, capability and a killer attitude.
What are the company's core values?
We value Honesty, Integrity and provide quality services which will help Xellentro's customers to achieve excellence in their delivery.
How do you describe your culture?
We are an open organization and people are empowered to do their work within the expectations set. We work in a team and there is no hierarchy.
Where do you want to company to be in 3 years?
We see ourselves to be seen as the best in the area of service globally.
How did you create the vision?
That has come to me based on my experience, knowledge and as I see that the area of my operation has a lot of scope of improvement for corporate and startups. This area is not given its due importance.
Do you think that the company will ever need outside investors?
Fund will be definitely helpful. We are now in a stage where we are ready to grow exponentially and Investor Fund will be helpful.
About the spirit
NiladriChoudhuri – Founder and CEO
Niladri has 27 years of IT consulting and training experience across a range of verticals and technology. He has strong experience in managing large global projects and programs setting up from scratch various practices for BI/DW, Project Portfolio Management, etc.
He has been providing training and consulting to large organizations across the world on Project Management, Portfolio Management, Agile, DevOps, IT Service Management, etc.
He is the first person to be DevOps Test Engineer Certified and Accredited by DevOps Institute in India and second in the world.
He is also accredited by G2G3 for their DevOps Simulation.
