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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL MoT (Management of Technology) EMBA program:
Lecturing and workshops on Innovation and creativity.
  • Tilo Peters, Executive Director, MoT Program at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) "I met Yves when he was at Logitech and what impressed me was that he had such a clear and broad view of the multivariate needs of new product development and organizational design. He understands that there is more than just an idea behind any successful venture—it requires aligning and balancing the elements of the business with the needs of the various stakeholders. 
    Not only does he understand this, but he also has a unique capacity to communicate this. It's really what he does at InnoExec: visualizing, understanding, aligning, and communicating. This is also why he is one of the most highly rated course leaders in our Executive MBA program."
  • Jean Micol, former Director Executive MBA in MoT at EPFL : "Yves Karcher, as a key executive of Logitech, has a wealth of experience in leading innovation product and portfolio management. He masters product development process on a global basis and truly involves and mobilizes all potential stakeholders. He was a key player in introducing and deploying new product categories. He has wonderfully shared his know-how and experience by providing inspiring lectures to Executive MBA students of the mot.epfl.ch program jointly led by EPFL and UNIL-HEC in Lausanne. His precious advices are sought by numerous organizations". 

  • Alistair Fee, professor at Queens University Belfast, thought Leader at Acorn International Strategy, : "Yves has a life time of experience in high value product design . He is tuned in to assessing success and failure and is excellent at targeting core elements required to develop products, markets and strategy . His global view is insightful and very well informed".
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, EMBA program
Workshop on Product Design and role of Customer insights
  • David Robertson, Professor of Practice at The Wharton School : "Yves did a terrific workshop for a group of Executive MBAs at Wharton. He helped them see the power of ethnographic research to help understand the latent needs of customers. He brought in examples from his own experience to help the students understand what mistakes they were making in the workshop and how they could do better work in the field. He has a very interactive and engaging style and is able to communicate powerful lessons in an entertaining way."

HEC, University of Lausanne:
Professor for Entrepreneurship Workshop (Lausanne, Spring Semester)
  • Anonymous feedback from students: "l'enseignant est très disponible et compréhensif. Très interactif et change notre manière d'étudier->stimule et interaction avec les étudiants. Bonne cohésion dans l'environnement du cours."  "Yves est très dynamique, enseigne avec plaisir et passion! Beaucoup de plaisir à l'écouter! Enseignement fun." 

GS1 Forum Suisse de Logistique, Nov. 2016
Philippe Wieser, Organisateur et directeur IML
"Yves Karcher a été l'un des conférenciers du 16ème Forum Suisse de Logistique organisé à l'EPFL le 9 novembre 2016. Le thème était "Supply Chain 4.0-Entreprise digitale". Yves Karcher a fait une remarquable intervention, saluée par l'ensemble des quelque 225 participants, intitulée "Design organisationnel adapté à la stratégie : Quelle structure, quels processus, quel type de talents pour exécuter une stratégie d’innovation ?"
Innovaud, accelerating innovation
Start up Week-end, Lausanne: coach to help a team create a start-up in one week-end.

EPFL Innovation Park Workshops : 
Design Thinking, Organisational Design and Complex Team management workshops
Gianpaolo Turri, Director at Namiki Group: "I had the enormous pleasure to meet Yves and discuss product development and business innovation at EPFL, in the framework of a series of seminars for entrepreneurs and startups. Yves is a person of great knowledge and experience, nevertheless extremely humble when it comes to describing his numerous successes. He is capable of energising and leading an audience with real life examples and with anecdotes that are of great inspiration for people involved in R&D, innovation, product development and production. I hope to have many more opportunities to share ideas and learn from Yves, and I wish him all the best for his new exciting career. "
International Create Challenge, (IDIAP Martigny):
François Foglia, Deputy Director: "I invited Yves to give a keynote talk and lead a workshop on "Design thinking and Innovation beyond the product" in the framework of the International Create Challenge (ICC'2015, www.createchallenge.org). He did an incredible job sharing some of his Logitech experiences with our participants. Yves is a very enthusiastic person. His message is bright and his advice is valuable. No doubt, we will work again together in the future. It was a real pleasure to get to know each other at this occasion"
Keynotes, workshop, coaching on Innovation with companies : please contact Yves Karcher for references.

Nissan : Julien Piedbois, Innovation Lab Manager.
"Yves helped us teaching the basics of innovation methodologies to our selected Nissan employees. During the workshops he organized, his customized support helped to keep everything moving smoothly, making sure all the workshop goals were met with the highest standards. 
His expertise onto all subjects linked to Innovation and technologies as well as a quick understanding of the automotive industry challenges have been really helpful to have true innovative projects delivered by our teams. "

Logitech: 
  • Marcel Stolk , Sr VP Consumer Computing Platforms Business Group at Logitech 
"Yves Karcher has worked for the past twenty-five years in a variety of engineering, quality, IT and management roles, for the past seven years as VP Engineering, Consumer Computer Platform business group. Logitech’s CCP business group is the company’s largest engineering organization, working for the important retail Mouse Keyboard and PC gaming business that has been a staple of company revenue for more than thirty years. It comprises more than 330 employees at different sites around the world. 
Yves has also successfully led one of the first large ERP implementations at Logitech and has also balanced his already busy schedule to act as site leader and ambassador for Logitech’s European headquarters on the EPFL campus in Lausanne. This entailed handling employee and local community communications. 

Yves skills are numerous: 
- He possesses strong program management skills as well as excellent skills in managing extremely large teams with diverse skillsets functioning across different businesses. His management style is personal, calm and balanced 
- As you would expect, Yves has talents in organization design and is able also to lead organizational change, and structure outcomes through his leadership and influence 
- Yves is loyal, well organized, a good coach of people and able to listen as well as drive change to the benefit of a large organization 
I wholeheartedly recommend Yves for future roles relevant to his skillset. Should you wish for more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me. 

"I worked for many years with Yves at Logitech. I have always being impressed by his ability to structure discussions being about technology, organizations etc., to build a strong engagement among team members, to follow up on every detail. His warm personality just adds up to his workaholic habits. A great contributor to have around!"

BOOKS referencing Yves Karcher