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ITpreneurs’ association with Ciber Norge AS: “Creates Ripples in ITIL Education Domain”
   
Ciber Norge AS is riding the high tides of success in ITIL Education business with the help of ITpreneurs.

The Background
Ciber Norge AS (Norway) is a subsidiary of Ciber Inc., world’s 36th largest consultancy in the field of Systems Development, Service Management and Public Sector Modernization. Ciber Norge AS has 24 years of experience in the same field having 85 consultants spread all over Europe with revenues worth 12 million Euros.

The Need
Ciber Norge AS took a challenging leap to consultancy in ITIL service. This was a logical step in the wake of the growing need for adoption of ITIL best practices among its client organizations. The organization realized the need for quality training solutions in the domain to build competence levels of the users in the client organizations. To help its clients in this aspect, Ciber chose to foray into ITIL education business in the year 2003. The organization was in search of a quality training solutions provider. In collaboration with ITpreneurs, Ciber Norge AS geared up to establish itself in ITIL education services in November 2003.

     
   

Why ITpreneurs
ITpreneurs is a leading global provider of training solutions in the domain of IT best practices. It has developed world-class innovative learning products for ITIL/ITSM and other IT Management best practices. ITpreneurs is miles ahead of others by virtue of:

  • Its association with leading content providers in the IT process frameworks.
  • Excellent courseware in terms of design, scope and presentation.
  • Comprehensive and customized courseware as per the requirements of the Value Added Resellers(VARs)
  • Focused, localized and cost-effective training solutions by combining domain expertise and rich experience in ITIL/ITSM frameworks
  • Uniquely developed ITIL/ ITSM training products enabling easy & effective learning for the end users, thereby, maximizing the benefits of the VARs.
  • Flexibility in developing customized courseware and cost-efficiency in delivery.

The Approach
ITpreneurs’ association has helped Ciber Norge AS to provide world-class e-learning as well as classroom training solutions as per the requirements of its clients. Its approach to competence development looks at both developing and sustaining the individual and organizational competence. With its partnership based joint development approach, it has worked together with Ciber in developing customized course content for their clients. ITpreneurs with its excellent service delivery platform made the job easier for Ciber Norge AS. They approached the targets through:

  • Aggressive pricing
  • Some advertising
  • Selling to existing contacts
  • Fast reactions from Itpreneurs

Moreover, itSMF Conference Norway 2004 was a turning point for the organization in achieving its targets.

The Results
With the cooperation of ITpreneurs, Ciber Norge AS has defied competition in the ITIL education market in Norway and other Scandinavian countries. By the end of 2004, the company made several achievements by offering 13 ITIL Alive classroom courses as against the projected target of 5 in that year , 16 ITIL Foundation e-learning trainings and 1 Service Manager Course as against a doubtful target of one. Further, the organization bagged 10 ITIL consultancy assignments during the year. This has been achieved by adding new features like COBIT, BS15000 in co-ordination with ITpreneurs. The trend for further success rests on more e-learning and Bulk selling.