Shayan Zaidi Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Part of the leadership team helping build and grow a new practice focused on strategies to originate, build, and scale new businesses and reimagine core business for growth with a complete "digital-native" approach across commercial and operational functions. We take a venture-backed mindset and thinking holistically across the anatomy of digital businesses to accelerate the organic and inorganic growth journeys for our clients. Focused across a portfolio of Retail and Consumer clients.

• Develop, manage, and maintain client portfolio with digital transformation programs and value impact, leading client delivery as well as driving business development targets• Build and maintain enduring relationships with senior-level clients beyond delivery of client strategy, and the work produces /captures significant business value for clients• Lead development of new digital offerings and/or points of view, and publish research to build market eminence• Co-create with clients through outcome-based constructs and engagement models such as Digital & Innovation garages to rapidly test, deploy, and scale use casesRecent engagements include:• Currently working on a DTC Strategy for the commercial and in-home services business for an Industrial Products company• Created strategy and product roadmap for a new Digital omni-channel product for one of the world’s largest grocery retailer, helping launch the pilot in 20+ stores• Led new organizational and operating model design and change effort for a large grocer to digitally reinvent the supply chain, reducing shrink by 7% and inventory by 3%

Armonk, Ny, Us

• Role internally known as "Executive Assistant/EA” - an extremely selective and prestigious, accelerated leadership position to shadow top IBM execs and serve as a sounding board, advising on strategic issues around offerings, go to market, and business development• Spearheaded the growth strategy with the GBS M&A team - work included market scan, target identification and concept approval• Led key future shaping organizational initiatives including creating the first operating model blueprint of the cognitive growth platform • Established the framework for key strategic offerings and campaigns, declaring the initial offerings across global, cross-sector and sectors)• Led the Strategic Communications function - both internal and external executive communication including speeches and keynote presentations to the leadership team as well as clients. Prepared internal strategy plans for the execs to present to the Global SVP and the IBM Chairman

Founding member of the new Cognitive and AI (Artificial Intelligence) consulting practice, centered on IBM Watson and Machine Learning technologies. Helped scale and grow the practice; developed the Cognitive Strategy method and led cognitive use case discovery in several industries. Led the North America project portfolio with accountability for overall delivery of consulting engagements and drove significant signings, profitable revenue and year-on-year growth. Successfully developed new cognitive analytics consulting services business with C-Suite and General Manager Leaders of target accounts.

Global role leading Watson Cognitive Value Strategy engagements to understand client business challenges, develop hypotheses of how Watson would transform the business, articulate the business value and outline the cognitive journey. Recent clients include leading Australian and South African telcos, a leading African investment bank, and health and life insurers in South Africa and Japan.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Defined new business model options and market opportunity to help a leading pharmaceutical client explore entry in to the care coordination services space. Led the workstream to conduct market overview and market sizing, determine customer segments and targets and define a go-to-market strategy. Work concluded with a business value case, a 5-year financial forecast and a roll out plan• Acted as the Chief Communications Officer for the CIO of an international luxury retailer and helped setup the communication function and channels for the Office of the CIO• Conducted capability and process maturity assessment and formulated strategic recommendations for IT processes and operating model improvements for a specialty retailer• Helped a large gaming, hospitality and entertainment company change from a Las Vegas strip-centric IT support model to a more regionally aligned IT model• Led multiple workstreams to define a strategy blueprint for a vertically integrated luxury retailer's IT transformation to support and enable a globally integrated enterprise model. Designed the new organization structure aligned with business strategy. Work included new organization functional and physical design along with decision rights, communication strategy and change management plan to effectively manage change and guide the transition to the new IT organization design

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Assessment and recommendations to improve pricing and signing process for a multinational mid-range department store chain• Business and IT Strategy for an international luxury retailer - work involved recommending process and technology changes to enhance store and customer experience and enable a global enterprise model • IT Strategy and process maturity assessment to identify capability enhancement opportunities for a national gaming and hospitality company• Organizational transformation, Cost Reduction, Target Operating Model design and benchmarking for a national grocery retailer – work included process maturity assessment to determine the current state baseline and validate hypothesis including future target operating model options and operational improvements recommendations• IT Strategy, process maturity assessment and retail component business modeling to perform a current state analysis and identify capability enhancement opportunities for a large national auto parts retailer• Marketing Strategy with a scope and plan of a proof of concept to test the business value of property information for in-home sales calls for a global home improvement retailer• Assessment of a global pharmaceutical’s current sales and marketing model to determine its entry strategy for a successful branded generic launch in emerging market

Chicago, Il, Us

• Worked on the UA-Contiental merger and formulated contract labor sourcing strategy and identified 6% savings potential through company analysis, industry benchmarking and vendor optimization• Analyzed the project portfolio and the annual external labor spend to adjust resource/vendor mix• Redefined processes to assist business units in driving organization behavior change

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked with clients in the public sector (primarily Health & Human Services), specializing in strategic business discovery, solution integration, custom development, and modernization and transformation.

Woburn, Ma, Us

Mba, Management & Strategy, Analytical Consulting, Marketing, Finance

Masters In Design Innovation, Operations

Ms, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bsc (Honours), Computer Science