Roy Franke - Innovation

About Me

Hello! I’m Roy Franke.
I am an experienced Digital Product Manager and consultant for innovation, digital transformation, strategy and digital learning. My experiences are in strategy, vision, new business models, innovation management and execution, agility and digital learning. I have many years of experience working in finance, mobility, IT and education area and are holding an executive MBA in business engineering from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and a Master in Digital & Strategic Information from IEBS Madrid, Spain.

Age: 42
Residence: Switzerland & Spain
Freelance: Available
Address: Zürich, Switzerland

My Services

Innovation

Establish an innovative team by using Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Prototyping, etc.

Agile & New Work

Transformation in agile organization, establishing new work enviroments, SCRUM

Digital Business

Designing and establishing new digital business and strategy with focus on sustainability

Digital Learning

Support in transforming to digital education. Designing digital education programs, coaching L&D professional & teachers in using digital.

Pricing

Consulting

CHF 160 hour

Keynotes
Personal Coaching
Sparring Partner

Contact

Workshops & Projects

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Design Sprints
Entrepreneurship-Skills
Business Models
Agile Transformation
Project Lead

Contact

Fun Facts

Magician as hobby

5 Languages

5 000 Cups Of Coffee

25 Countries Visited

Clients

Verband Schweizerischer Elektrizitätsunternehmen

What others are saying about me

While holding the position of Product Owner Roy was truly Agile and collaborated beautifully with the rest of the development team to get things done. He stood up for a lean product, established realistic expectations and helped to transformed a project impossible to deliver, due to feature overloading, into something achievable. It was great working with Roy as his passion for delivery transpires in every action of his.

Arun

Technology Lead

Conducting a workshop together with Roy was insightful on many layers. I appreciated his vast knowledge in the areas of teaching, organisational transformation and innovation. These skills in combination with the sound understanding and application of Lego® Serious Play®, helps to bring workshop delivery to the next level. The know-how in these different subject matters is impressive, as he starts connecting the dots and forming new insights. His critical thinking ability ensures that exercises remain in the flow area and help to shape exciting activities for participants. Collaborating with Roy is fun and rewarding.

Nadine Oppenheim

Design Thinking Coach

I had the great pleasure of working with Roy during the Innov8rs conference in Madrid in 2018. Roy was inspiring to work with in every way. He had a wonderful vision of how to create meaningful content, inspire participants and create lasting impact. He was fantastic to work with, incredibly responsive, creative and practical in his knowledge of how to apply Innovation Management and Business Development to set goals and reach certain milestones. I hope to have the possibility to work with him again in the near future.

Urs Rothmayr

Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship Consultant

Roy led my innovation team and me through a very inspiring and productive workshop using Lego Serious Play. Our goal was to make our vision more tangible and work out the next steps along the way. With the help of Roy's support and facilitation, we succeeded. In preparation, he quickly captured our concerns. During the workshop we were able to illustrate our ideas, discuss them in the team and develop them further - thanks to Roy's know-how and enthusiasm for the creative method, challenging tasks and his calm and pragmatic style. Gladly again!

Ursula Brunner

Lead InnoLab Migros

Resume

Experience

2021 - present

Founder, CPO & CMO

Sugar Cup

Successfully launched Sugar Cup, a digital neighbor platform that integrates and connects people,
organizations, businesses, real estate companies
Drove the increase in userbase through growth hacking activities
Led a team of 4 developers to deliver high-quality product releases on time and within budget

2021 - Present

Co-Founder & Consultant

2get-there, Zürich, Switzerland

Successfully helped several organizations execute digital transformations resulting in new digital products
and services and new agile mindset
Developed new digital products and apps
Facilitated numerous workshops resulting in new products / services, new business strategies and visions
or understanding of new work

2021 - Present

Member of the Executive Board & Head Vocational service

EB Zürich, Switzerland

Successfully developed and launched several innovative digital learning trainings and services in VR and
AI
Introduced new AI tools and techniques resulting in improvement and optimization of business activities
at our customers
Successfully implemented customized training programs for several prominent companies, resulting in
helping companies gaining new skills for todays world
Successfully defined and implemented a new business model (EB Digital, BB Hub), resulting in increasing
the reputation in the digital company competence
Led the agile transformation of the organization, resulting in an agile company culture and increased business alignment

2020 - 2021

Digital Innovation Consultant

OpenTrends, Madrid, Spain

Scrum Master and leading a remote team in India
Product Owner: developing a digital marketing game for Carrefour
Project Leader: Leading a team of developers, designers and business development and
helping in the digital transformation of the Madrid community

2018 - 2020

Senior Business Innovation Manager

SBB, Bern, Switzerland

Responsible for concepts and implementing digital in business
Establish an intrapreneurship program, mentoring as Innovation-/Startup-Coach
Scouting for Startups worldwide and managing the 3-gate innovation process
Implementing OKR, LeanStartUp-Methodology and creating new business models with design sprints

2014 - 2018

Chief Digital Officer

CYP, Zürich, Switzerland

Establish an IT strategy
Responsible for digital transformation inhouse and external
Responsible for concepts and implementing digital in business

Education

2020 - 2021

Master in Digital & Strateic Information Officer

IEBS, Spain

Big Data
Innovation Management
ETL Process
Customer Analytics
Digital Product Management
Business Intelligence
Data Strategy

2020 - 2020

Digital Product Manager

HeroCamp, Spain

Build and launch digital products
Lead Digital Production Team
Digital Business Models
Agile methodologies to put the focus on the customer

2016 - 2018

Executive MBA Business Engineering

University of St. Gallen

Strategic Management, Business Innovation
Service Design, Service Innovation & Management
Digital Transformation
Financial accounting
Process management
Communication & Marketing
Leadership in Transformation

2011 - 2014

Master in Education Leadership

IAP, Zürich

Development of education concepts and curriculum theory
Project management, Coaching
Conflict management, learning-psychology
Management, Corporate Learning, education controlling

2004 - 2009

Bachelor of Business Administration

PHW, Zürich

Case Study Project in Shanghai, Xi’an and Beijing
Topic: Excellence in Winning Customers: Value Added Services in Hospitality
Specialization: International Management
Topic of thesis: Success-factor for Mystery Shoppin

Skills

Innovation Skills

Design Sprint
Innovation Management
Prototyping
Design Thinking

Languages

English
German
Spanish
French
Mandarin (Chinese)

Coding

WordPress

75%
Bubble

75%
Angular / JavaScript

85%
Python

25%

Knowledge

OKR
Lean StartUp & Entrepreneurship
Lego Serious Play Facilitator
Scrum Master & Product Owner
Digital Marketing
Innovation Strategy
Digital Learning

Testimonials

Roy led my innovation team and me through a very inspiring and productive workshop using Lego Serious Play. Our goal was to make our vision more tangible and work out the next steps along the way. With the help of Roy's support and facilitation, we succeeded. In preparation, he quickly captured our concerns. During the workshop we were able to illustrate our ideas, discuss them in the team and develop them further - thanks to Roy's know-how and enthusiasm for the creative method, challenging tasks and his calm and pragmatic style. Gladly again!

Ursula Brunner

Lead InnoLab, Migros

While holding the position of Product Owner Roy was truly Agile and collaborated beautifully with the rest of the development team to get things done. He stood up for a lean product, established realistic expectations and helped to transformed a project impossible to deliver, due to feature overloading, into something achievable. It was great working with Roy as his passion for delivery transpires in every action of his.

Arunkumar T

Technology Lead, Opentrends

I had the great pleasure of working with Roy during the innov8rs conference in Madrid in 2018. Roy was inspiring to work with in every way. He had a wonderful vision of how to create meaningful content, inspire participants and create lasting impact. He was fantastic to work with, incredibly responsive, creative and practical in his knowledge of how to apply Innovation Management and Business Development to set goals and reach certain milestones. I hope to have the possibility to work with him again in the near future.

Urs Rothmayr

Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship Consultant

Enter textWith Roy Franke, I arrived at the "Digital Business Transformation" thematic workshop, I was able to set an anchor, so to speak. As you know, set anchor is half the ship. The digital future is becoming more and more important. "Up front" is where someone knows it, namely Roy: His expertise in digital business transformation is impressive. And he likes to share them generously!