Vincent Ducret Email & Phone Number

Essertines-sur-Yverdon, VD, CH

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Working with business leaders and senior teams to drive corporate transformation, innovation, and growthChange Logic helps companies to lead disruption in their markets by ideating, incubating, and scaling new businesses inside existing organizations. Our clients are CEOs, senior teams, business unit leaders, and heads of strategy, with a transformation.

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Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Lead the Corporate (Internal) Transformation by embedding a “customer-centric and experimentation” culture and mindset through,
• Co-creation and deployment world-wide of a customized corporate design thinking & lean enterprise-based framework and program (internally known as FastForward - FFWD)
• Design and delivery of workshops and hackathons, and coaching of project teams on design thinking and lean startup principles. +9,000 employees trained and +40 markets activated to date
• Development and upskilling of world-wide communities of enablers to deeply and sustainably anchor new way of working company-wide
• Recruitment, activation and management of external catalysts to support project teams in markets
• Organization and execution of events, trainings and workshops for senior company executives and management, including design of business strategy

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Created and deployed a company-wide innovation management framework and program to foster an innovation culture and mindset, and to encourage entrepreneurial spirit which resulted in the implementation of +1,000 ideas.
• Designed and delivered innovation workshops and campaigns across the company
• Coached employees in pitching and prototyping ideas
• Managed annual budget of USD 500,000 for seeding employees’ ideas
• Created an innovation outpost in San Francisco which was PMI’s first presence in Silicon Valley. Recruited top external talent to manage the outpost. +20 pilots executed and +10 solutions launched
• Supervised interns completing Master Degree in Management, Technology & Entrepreneurship.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Led, coached and developed an adaptable, flexible and agile IS organization (including recruitment of top talents) to properly anticipate, capture, support and translate Duty Free business needs and overall strategy into innovative IS services and solutions; e.g. first reporting platform fully available on corporate smartphones. Managed annual budget of.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Designed the software and hardware architecture, and key functional aspects of external and internal global solutions, and led their implementation up to launch date. Example of realization: corporate web site (www.pmi.com)

• Designed the software and hardware architecture, as well as the key functional aspects of external and internal global solutions in various domains or areas like marketing, human resources, corporate affairs, content.
• Identified and recommended best practices, guidelines, solutions and technologies to solve recurrent performances issues of global web-based applications, and to ensure acceptable WAN performances from affiliates
• Formulated guidelines for the development and deployment of web-based applications to ensure that the delivered solution conforms to the required quality of service

• As Project Manager, I was responsible for planning project tasks, performing risk analysis, coordinating resources, managing and tracking project execution and issues, performing project reporting to executive.
• Digital printing solution for a major European Photo Finisher
• Solution that implements the Swiss government regulations regarding processes for intercepting e-mail traffic as well as mailbox and Internet accesses, for a major Swiss Telecommunications Operator

• As Project Leader, planned work, coordinated team, tracked planning, project progress and issues, managed risks for the development of:
• Large-scale integration platforms, based on J2EE, for a major Swiss insurance company
• Technical prototype integrating legacy systems in a Java-based distributed platform for a major Swiss insurance company. As Software Consultant,
• Designed a large-scale, distributed Java-based architecture for the Swiss Defense industry, which allowed the integration of legacy systems with future distributed systems.
• Developed a large-scale distributed Java-based architecture for a major Swiss Financial Services customer, and coached customer's development team in the implementation of the applications on top of that architecture