Entrepreneur, Co-crafter, Innovation Consultant
Bangalore Area, India
- Current
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- Founder Director & Co-crafter at Crafitti Consulting Private Limited
- Past
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- Innovation Consultant at Wipro Limited
- Lean Consultant at Wipro technologies
- Technical Lead at Wipro technologies
- Project Lead, Developer and Tester at Wipro Technologies
- Education
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- National Law School of India University
- Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology
- University of Mumbai
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Karthikeyan Iyer’s Summary
Founder-director of Crafitti Consulting Private Limited, a new venture in the innovation and strategy space. Co-crafting innovation in business and technology contexts using techniques, frameworks and methodologies experimented and developed over several years of grass-roots application and learning.
Innovation Consultant facilitating innovative thinking in business strategy, process efficiency, new solution conceptualization, technology evolution, innovation capability building and intellectual property management including patent strategy.
Lean Consultant with experience in envisaging and implementing Lean Thinking in more than 100 projects in a variety of areas including Telecommunications, Financial Services, Package Implementation, Testing Services, IT Operations and Application Development Frameworks. Responsibilities include devising organizational Lean strategy and roadmap, policy setting, training and mentoring cadre of Lean Facilitators, incorporating new techniques to catalyze Lean Thinking, distilling Lean learning from publications and experiments for broad-basing and organization-wide application.
Author of publications Holistic Value Framework – creating right value streams using TRIZ and other concepts and article Strategic Project Management Priorities in Global Software Development. Author of concept notes Lean in Application Maintenance, Application Development using Design Structure Matrices.
Program Manager interacting with a diverse set of people ranging from engineers to middle, senior and executive management and helping them adopt new management and ideation techniques in the midst of acute project delivery pressures.
Technical Consultant in the Telecommunications domain with experience in developing, testing and architecting solutions for multiple clients.
Karthikeyan Iyer’s Specialties:
Innovation techniques, structured problem definition and articulation, process streamlining and efficiency, value frameworks, ideation, decision-making, intellectual property management, technology evolution landscaping, patent strategy.
Karthikeyan Iyer’s Experience
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Founder Director & Co-crafter
Crafitti Consulting Private Limited
(Management Consulting industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Crafitti (crafting innovation together) is a new venture in the innovation and strategy space, started by a group of like-minded people (inclusing myself) who have over the past several years facilitated grass-roots innovation in business processes, strategy, innovation management, intellectual property management in many different companies in myriad contexts. We bring a rich set of experiences (failures and successes) and a number of frameworks, techniques and methodologies experimented with and developed over the years to aid innovative thought and action.
Crafitti's goal is to co-craft innovation with clients, partners and even competitors. Over a period of time we intend to build a diverse team with eclectic skills and research orientation in addition to consulting acumen. -
Innovation Consultant
Wipro Limited
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Innovation Consultant working with multiple teams across Wipro Technologies facilitating innovative thinking in business strategy, process efficiency, new solution conceptualization, technology evolution, innovation capability building and intellectual property management including patent strategy.
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Lean Consultant
Wipro technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Lean Consultant with experience in envisaging and implementing Lean Thinking in more than 100 projects in a variety of areas including Telecommunications, Financial Services, Package Implementation, Testing Services, IT Operations and Application Development Frameworks. Responsibilities include devising organizational Lean strategy and roadmap, policy setting, training and mentoring cadre of Lean Facilitators, distilling Lean learning from publications and experiments for broad-basing and organization-wide application.
Author of publications Holistic Value Framework – creating right value streams using TRIZ and other concepts and Strategic Project Management Priorities in Global Software Development. Author of concept notes Lean in Application Maintenance, Application Development using Design Structure Matrices. -
Technical Lead
Wipro technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 3 months)
Technical Consultant in VOIP technologies, assisting in understanding and prioritizing requirements, design evaluation, dependency analysis and code reviews.
Consultant on usage of Lean and Agile methods in the product development life cycle.
Worked closely with customer teams (Avaya and Marconi) to architect solutions to support internet-based voice and data applications.
Mentored teams to work on complex issues in switch systems software.
Won Avaya Peacock Awards and commendations for resolution of complex problems. -
Project Lead, Developer and Tester
Wipro Technologies
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1999 — March 2002 (2 years 8 months)
Developed, tested and maintained software and managed small projects in the wireline telecommunications technology space as part of Wipro-Nortel team.
Worked on multiple complex features on circuit switched technology and network side protocols.
Won Nortel and Wipro awards in recognition of sterling contributions to software product releases.
Karthikeyan Iyer’s Education
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National Law School of India University
PGD in IPR Law , Intellectual Property Law , 2006 — 2009
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Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology
BE , Computer Engineering , 1995 — 1999
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University of Mumbai
B.E , Computer Science , 1995 — 1999
