Hi ! i am
Rushikesh Kulkarni
Associate Vice President, Creative director, with above 15 years of experience building and leading global design teams and capability groups, such as User Research, Product innovation, Service design, Experience design and Digital business transformation.
​I helped organizations establish design process, evangelize design thinking and leverage a variety of market research and design research techniques to innovate new products, processes systems, service and environments to achieve busines outcomes.
Outcome
Oriented
Over 500Million potential revenue generation/cost saved for clients
Average 2 million revenue in the first 2 years from new capabilities crafted and launched for my employers.
Pitched projects with 80% success rate.
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50+million revenue in the past 6 yrs from projects sold and lead by me.
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90% repeat clients.
100+ projects with a min of 35%margin on all projects.
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Thought
Leader
Strong Povs , methodologies on Digital business transformation, persuasive design, product innovation, personalization and Brand loyalty in B2B businesses
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25% of the project sold were due to thought leadership content created for potential client
Min of 2 C suite presentation /workshops per year for strategic clients.
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Representation in conference such as CXFS.
Tranined design practicioners and school students to leverage research and design methodologies
Design Team
Builder
Helped more than 3 organizations build design and innovation teams.
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Hired and mentored more than 150 designers and over the past 15 years
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Trained more than 100 team member in conducting research, identifying opportunities for innovation, designing new products service and experiences
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Established fast research and design process to boost productivity and increased efficiency by at least 100 percent
Global Exposure & Recognization
Singapore national Infocom award 2012
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Fintech innovation awards 2016
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Global monarch innovation award 2017
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Intel classmate PC had won multiple awards.
3+ of my product patented by my clients
Lead primary or secondary user research in more than 11 countries. Crafted new research methods and techniques for participants in developed and emerging markets.
I am passionate about...
INNOVATION &
PRODUCT dESIGN
5
projects
PHYSICAL SPACES &
ENVIRONMENT
dESIGN
5
projects
ETHNOGRAPHY
&
DESIGN RESEARCH
5
projects
qualitative & QUANTATIVE
MARKET RESEARCH
5
projects
SERVICE
dESIGN
5
projects
building global design
ORGANIZATIONS
5
projects
BRAND
& PRODUCT
POSITIONING
5
projects
CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY & MACRO TRENDS
5
projects
DIGITAL BUSINESS
tRANSFORMATION
5
projects
Persuasive
experience
Design
5
projects
AWARDS AND RECOGNIZATION
Innovation in Treasury Management
Fintech Award 2016
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Most innovative use of technology
Singapore National Infocom
Award
2012
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Most Innovative Feature
Global Monarch Innovation Award
2017
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Masters in Industrial Design
University
Gold Medalist
2011
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KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
CXFS 2018 PANELIST
As part of the panelist, I spoke about the using service design as an approach to transform customer journey across the lifecycle and aligning organizational capabilities, such as digital tools, technology, people processes, and data to delivery to it
All Projects
