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Harnessing Cutting-Edge Innovation to Deliver Market
Winning Solutions: Smart Enovations
“To design, develop, manufacture and popularize environment friendly and sustainable products which will serve end
customers, economically, efficiently, and effectively.”
Ravi Gunti, CEO
“The journey will be
tough today, tougher
tomorrow but surely it
will be beautiful the day
after tomorrow. Also,
to achieve something it
is necessary to dream
about it. If you have
achieved it mentally,
you will surely achieve it
physically.”
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mart Enovations,
headquartered in Bengaluru,
is a product design and
development organization
which was set up in 2011 by
CEO and founder, Ravi Gunti.
Smart Enovations is founded by
technocrats, who are seasoned
serial entrepreneurs and
founding members of other
technology companies with an
in-depth understanding of science,
engineering, and technology along
with management experience
concerning high-value projects.
Having branches in USA, Germany,
september 2019
Sweden, and the UK, Smart
Enovations employs experienced
engineers to deal with the design
challenges in various domains
like automobile, aerospace,
heavy engineering, and power
engineering. They have a team to
analyze customer requirements
and provide quality work which
is innovative, top-of-the-line, as
well as, cost-efficient to make the
best use of resources. Starting with
concept design, benchmarking and
feasibility studies, Smart Enovations
has something to offer for every
phase of product design.
In conversation with
the CEO of Smart
Enovations, Ravi Gunti
1) Can you brief us about the
history of your company?
Smart Enovations is a melting
pot of experience in providing
engineering services to domestic
and international customers.
The organization was founded
by technocrats who have worked
in high tech industries such as
Space technologies, Aeronautics
and Automotive. Their technical
experience coupled with
successfully building engineering
services practiced in earlier
ventures has been instrumental
in establishing SE’s practices in
technology development, quality
management, customer relationship,
and human resource management.
Adapting state of the art practices
in development as well as effective
communications contributes to
customer experience, in turn
increasing our footprint in their
business. SE has been consistently
helping customers to meet their
business objectives through
quality deliveries, timely
responses and cost controls.
2) What would you say are
the top three skills needed to
be a successful business/IT
leader?
Three driving factors for us are
Innovation, uniqueness, and
Commitment to ‘keeping-it-simple.’
This is the winning formula for
the company when compared
to its competitors. The engineering
design services pie is big enough
for all services providers to have
their own.
Innovation ~ is at heart of our
working ethos. Furthermore, we
value out-of-the-box thinking and
development of simple solutions for
complex problems. The combined
experience of SE engineers has been
used to update the standard product
development process to increase
productivity at every stage.
Problem-solving ~ the innovative
process to eliminate most of
the undesired problems in the
early stage of development to
reduce efforts and reduced
design cycle is the foremost skill
needed for a successful business.
Commitment to run through the
distance ~ as the development
progresses, expected performance