Rebecca Davis

Innovation:

• Implementing an innovation hub to foster creativity and experimentation with 50+ active members
• Piloting Design Sprints as an enabler for innovation within operations

Cooperate Strategy

• Implementing foresight capabilities to anticipate and adapt to future market trends mobilizing 300+ employees to join an open process
• Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence by combining elements of open strategy and traditional top-down approaches
• Initiating and facilitating diconiums new identity & positioning strategy
• Aligning portfolio activities to optimize resource allocation and maximize returns reducing 28 portfolio items to 6 core offerings

• Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance
• Functional and disciplinary lead of the southern Digital Innovation & Design management team (5 people) including the team set up
• Expansion of the business area Digital Innovation & Design management to south Germany Customer and project acquisition up to a volume of 300.000 Euro
• Project lead of various user centered projects including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure with a strong focus on agile and user centric frameworks
• Moderation and facilitation of co-creation workshops and training based on design thinking Conception and development of an innovation tool to foster self-guided innovation projects based on lean start up, design thinking and agile development frameworks

• IT Project lead for SPHERE establishing a customer centric ecosystem
• Definition of requirements the e-mobility backend aligning various departments
• Methodical management of the Audi appreciation network
• Establishing a work culture based on new work principles by co-founding the competence center „IT culture evolution “
• Implementation of collaborative models to work with external suppliers in an agile environment

• Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
• Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
• Contributing to the conception and implementation of a User Experience Center of Excellence (CoE) within the corporate IT department of a globally leading automotive manufacturer.
• Implementing and establishing a user-centric approach into the existing corporate IT methodology of an automotive manufacturer, focusing on delivering a seamless user experience.
• Conducting requirement analyses and user research with end-users at customer sites to gain insights and align the IT solutions with their needs.
• Designing and leading workshops with customers in areas such as requirements analysis, design thinking, and rapid prototyping to ensure collaborative and innovative solution development

• Development of implementation strategy for design thinking
• Conception and facilitation of workshops,
• Consultant on user experience for projects
• Thesis (M.Sc.): "Implementing Design Thinking at Volkswagen IT: Towards a framework for the implementation of Design thinking in large organizations"