Innovating in Talent Intelligence: Vipany Management Consulting

In today’s world, the most valuable resource is no longer Oil, but data of skilled and talented Human resources, which resulted in the uprising of an ecosystem of innovative technology driven products. It is needless to say that Talent being a key and valuable asset that ushers success for any organization, it is hard to ignore the challenges of finding such talent in this high-tech and intensely competitive marketplace. However, this challenge also emphasizes the miniscule percentage of qualified resources in India’s IT talent arena, best suited and can cater or probably adapt to the emerging technologies to solve today’s business problems. It is a formidable task to find them in the open or grey job market, and it is equally more challenging to reach out to them. Hence, a comprehensive need of creating many accelerator programs and support systems to hire, nurture and retain this talent should be of paramount importance to the investors, to foray into the market before the Competition takes you over and sups you in to it.

Beginning of Journey

Sudhakar Kolavennu and Prashanth Gundla, the founders of Vipany share a common pro- active business dynamics in comprehending the nuances and nitty-gritties of business by sharing a common vision of enabling business for clients to gear up for high soaring sustainable and stable growth. As the former coming from a consulting background and the latter being from a corporate background working with companies like IBM, Sonata Software and GE, together were putting their experiences and trying to envision and bridge the gaps/challenges they had experienced in their respective careers, which paved way for an innovation in the Talent Intelligence area. This finally culminated in to a business venture, and that is how Vipany was born and came in to existence.

“Vipany was born out of insatiable quest to cater to the assorted organizational requirements by mapping the talent pool with the current organizational opportunities and challenges thereby providing the best in class and tailor made Human resources that aptly and instantly fit into the job role thus bridging the gap between the Employer and the potential candidate.”

Uniqueness with Vipany

Vipany stands distinctively apart with its unique selling preposition of coming up with the model of Talent Intelligence & mapping followed with its triple play sourcing mode that leverages a zenith reach to the talent enabling talent mapping, benchmarking, & advisory. However, the backbone is always its perennial market research about the emerging technologies and companies. Vipany has completed its three years journey serving 60 clients where 90% of its clientele are Product Engineering and Development and 10% are fast paced hiring for IT Services clients. Vipany shall eventually move into other domains of business apart from IT.

“We are on track of achieving the mission and thankfully market is responding positively as we strive hard to reach and achieve what we have set to sail, steadily with our team who are equally passionate and enabling success so far and continue to help us visualize what our vision is.”

Problems vs Solutions

Sudhakar Kolavennu gives an insight and confirms that to be able to solve the talent problem, “we should rather understand the domain of the Business and Technology apart from the problems the company is trying to solve by understanding the Market, Competency & Technology being used. To comply with the demands, a great deal of groundwork by the consultants in the form of market research about competency availability is carried out by domain, technology, location and market compensation etc. However, but in reality, even those companies may not know the actual target pockets that they need to be looked at and even if they do, to reach to this talent is always a challenging and tiring task as job portals support only to an extent given the compressing timelines to hire.”

Our journey for last three years was great and commendable with more than 60 Hi-tech clients that demanded focusing on mapping of competitor companies & from the related domains. Vipany did extensive exercises in mapping more than 180 Companies. That speaks volumes about our work dynamics and professionalism in providing the best in class services within a short-stipulated time frame.

Shailesh Parulekar, India Head of Talena Inc., talking about Vipany “What I liked the most about Vipany, is that they understand the requirements really well, and work with a sense of urgency. At Talena, we hire top notch guys with excellent academic records and niche background of Big Data and Storage. While most of the other head hunters struggled terribly, I was extremely happy with Vipany’s performance. Overall, a very talented and passionate team. I would recommend them to any hiring manager!”

The company has specific goals and vision in expanding its business base deep into the Indian market and to other countries. We are in the look for strategic partners who could join hands with us and align to our style of functioning and make our presence in the Global markets and in India. By the year 2018 we will leave our foot prints in the alien soil and prove our worth as a dedicated team.

Building Talent Intelligence

Prashanth Gundla adds that, “Talent market is a local market, and it can be best delivered when we understand each demography as a local market place and its dynamics correctly. However, based on the inputs and feedback, we are building research capabilities and leverage technology to our best by prognosticating the specific and key requirement of the organization. We are foraying in-depth into our Talent Intelligence by leveraging the technology. Currently, we are doing a great deal of work on Big Data & Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence talent potential mapping in the India and APAC, while during the last three years we have mapped great talent from premier pedigrees.”

Today, Vipany is having a very strong, committed and dedicated team of 65 employees with 25 research specialists and 40 talent acquisition specialists who continuously engage with candidates in providing market dynamics and opportunities. We believe in providing the best and are literally on the verge of offering nothing less than excellence for customer delight. Our research team is very dynamic and pro-active in understanding the avenues and channelizing it resources diligently in a way that is most delightful to our business partners.

Talent Intelligence Approach

Talent Intelligence Market

During the last 5 years more than 300 VC funded start-ups evolved and grown to the next level in E- commerce, Big Data, Cloud, Fintech & analytics and the demand for competent talent is increasing continuously for the Business Success. With the growing demand for competent talent, there is a need for right talent identification solution that identifies both from domain & technology, Vipany is pioneering in that area with its in-depth market research.

Conclusion

Vipany, as a unit, stands tall as an edifice for creating opportunities in a very competitive and fast phased environment to cater to varied and specific need of diverse organisational needs in a more pro- active and pragmatic manner thereby living up to the expectation of our business partners and making them allay their apprehension of Talent Hiring. We deliver your dreams in a golden platter with our commitment and dedication.

“We have a unique style of functioning and thereby proved to be a niche in the Talent mapping, Talent benchmarking, research & intelligence solutions. We strongly believe in value laden business relations and leadership approach with the organizations by providing them with Proactive methods of talent mapping and actionable intelligence.”