Yves Karcher Email & Phone Number

Switzerland

From Innovation to Execution.✔ Sharing experiences (successes and failures) on innovation projects and tools to companies and students, through keynote speeches, roundtables and workshops on real cases that I lived at Logitech (topics include Design Thinking, Bottom-up Innovation, Opportunity selection, Organisational Design, project portfolio management, global team issues)✔ Coaching start-ups teams to select and refine opportunities and design a customer-centric business model with a plausible execution✔ Advising executive leadership of SMEs and Multinationals (including automotive, bank, e-cigarettes, drones, luxury watches, energy distribution) on ways to foster innovation and its execution, refining and prioritising innovation projects. Facilitating workshops in ideation, innovation funnel management, organisational design, project portfolio management, pitching. Innovation coach for IMD customer programs.✔ Lecturing and facilitating Value Proposition Design, Design Thinking, Organisational Design, Where to Play workshops in the innovation module or in custom classes of : - EMBA (Management of Technology) at EPFL, Lausanne. Advisory board member for the overall program. - Executive Education of UNIL (Lausanne). Academic Director of CAS "Change Management".- Executive Education of HSLU (Lucerne). Co-responsible for CAS on "Agile Product Engineering"- IMD EMBA, Lausanne- MIT Sloan, Cambridge- Wharton EMBA, university of Pennsylvania.- BSL (Business School Lausanne)✔ Lecturing entrepreneurship and facilitated entrepreneurship workshop at HEC, University of Lausanne. Working on the value proposition design and business model of innovation for real companies, students took the role of their leadership team and had to pitch me as (virtual) investor. ✔ Leveraging a large network, connecting start-up companies, SMEs, corporate, academia, investors.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Excelerate partners is impactful when in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous would you are willing to bet that the status quo just won't suffice.We are an agile and diverse network of experts. We empower our clients to create and implement scalable high impact innovative solutions.We bring practical industry expertise in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Growth & Transformation, Leadership & Development and Operational Excellence.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Innovating and developing mice and keyboards for PC, Mac, Gaming, Tablets and seeds for new categories.✔ Organised and facilitated workshops including several annual portfolio renewals, gathering global marketing, engineering, portfolio and procurement leaders in a week long seminar. ✔ Redeployed resources and reduced time-to-market for new tablet opportunities. As a result, the keyboard for iPad became the #1 selling product of the company and the mobile category grew from 0 to $173M revenue in 3 years. ✔ Between 2008 and 2014, the products developed in this engineering division grew the company from $1.1B to $1.4B, i.e. from 57% to 67% of the overall company revenue. ✔ Partnering with five different Business Unit General Managers and the CEO, engaged in strategic changes, addressing opportunities, maximizing available resources and evolving the organizational design of engineering. ✔ Managed a group of up to 400 engineers globally distributed over six sites. Enforced regular talent reviews, hired, developed and groomed several leaders that evolved within engineering and other critical functions within Logitech.✔ Acted as internal consultant for several business units, aligning organisational design to their innovation strategy.

Lausanne

Ensuring regular communications to site employees (up to 220) and alignment of site facilities, dynamics, values with the company directions and evolution✔ Moved and consolidated the Swiss facilities on the EPFL campus✔ Designed the interior structure and created an environment that further fostered collaboration and innovation. ✔ Established and nurtured strong network with EPFL, University Lausanne, IMD and local community. ✔ Guided customer and press tours in the facility.✔ Featured in several case studies, intervened routinely in classes and workshops on the theme of innovation, company values and bridges between execution and strategy.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Investigated and developed mice, trackballs and presentation devices for the retail market as well as probes such as the Digital IO Pen. ✔ Set up innovation, systematic technology exploration and customer insights methods.✔ Partnered closely with marketing counterparts and defined the strategy, the roadmap and a global execution plan of double digit category growth. Delivered growth from $245M to $534M annually.✔ Introduced the 1st wireless optical mouse, the 1st laser mouse, the 1st gaming mouse and the 1st three-dimensional navigation device. Filed 9 patents (see http://patents.justia.com/inventor/yves-karcher)✔ Personally investigated the presenter market and opportunity, interviewing customers and stakeholders. As a result, developed a simple concept that translated into a successful product line. ✔ Managed staff of 70 engineers, over 4 sites. Setup robust and global project management and virtual teams environments.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

✔ Responsible for IT and Quality management for the European sites. Deployed collaboration and workflow tools to foster teamwork, streamline and automate internal processes realizing a paperless office in 1992!✔ Directed the Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) project, the biggest project ever achieved in the company (100+ team members). All critical enterprise processes where mapped graphically. The project was successfully deployed and became critical to the fast growth pace of the company

Locarno, Switzerland

✔ Developed PC based software (based on OS/2 Presentation Manager) running on an Electro Erosion Machine Tool. The machine tool was the first one to be controlled with a trackball. ✔ Managed the User Interface and related tools.

Grenoble Area, France

✔ Developed the network box (HP2345A) connecting 48 terminals to HP 9000 via Ethernet. ✔ Optimized testing and manufacturing.

Emba, Business Administration

Particular achievement on the assignment "learning from your customer" : investigated the presentation market, gathered customer insights.

Master'S Degree, Automation, With Honors

Activities and Societies: was a ski teacher at Grenoble University Club.

Education record

Baccalauréat In Math / Science

Activities and Societies: Track and Fields (in particular Pole Vault).