Why Choose Teknavo

Capital markets — specific recruitment, retention, and reward

The Eastern European market benefits from a massive highly skilled labor force in the technology sector, but the top talented people (those with the right technology and capital markets skills) are rare and selective about whom they will work for. These people do not join traditional body shops, and Teknavo provides a unique conduit for them directly into top-class capital markets IT divisions.

Specialist project management

To make “managed captives” work requires a variety of project management skills that are not commonly found in the off-shoring sector but ones that are familiar to those of us who have worked in Capital Markets IT:

• setting up the right culture and engagement model (team and management relationships as well as legal documentation);
• sourcing the right facilities, resources, budget, planning in line with project scale;
• installing adequate communication and IT infrastructure sufficient to make productivity high but secure from inception;
• helping the client identify how best to transition roles or responsibilities to the new organization;
• and executing that transition quickly and effectively.

In summary, Teknavo provides:

• Access to real talent that won’t work for body-shopping organizations: a higher qualified talent pool, in regard to both the technologies and underlying financial products
• Better infrastructure and safer places to visit; the places we operate in are genuinely pleasant and secure places to live and work
• We only offer “managed captives” but with a custom-made engagement model where we fit to the client's engagement needs
• Teknavo management have themselves created captives and been clients of off-shoring vendors; we know what works and what doesn't when it comes to off-shoring
• We share the risk, not by offering woolly SLAs or the platitudes of “account management,” but by aligning our profit to genuine client satisfaction and devoting our top management to the detail of each client’s needs

New offshore operations include risky ventures, but key success factors are if the people who have set them up and have run them in those critical first two years are the right fit. The history both of our company and our directors offers evidence that not only do we have the ability to deliver what we promise, but that we understand and have the experience of perspective as a client and the service provider. That is the key ingredient that will make our solution successful.