Yash Kanni
Profile
Yash has 17 years of experience in Digital Transformation and Product Delivery. He has experience working in multiple industries and was a senior level consultant at Mckinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Accenture and Thoughtworks. Selected career highlights include:
Established Digital Unit at a large Telco:
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Defined the Digital Strategy and Transformation Strategy to enable organizational agility
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Setup and built capability in multiple cross-functional digital teams
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Improving experience of online ordering, self-service and entertainment
Established Digital Unit at large Chemicals company
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Setup and built capability in 8 cross-functional agile teams
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Coached 300+ employees on Agile (CEO, SVP, VP and senior manager levels)
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Achieved 2-3% margin uplift within the unit through advanced analytics
Established Digital Unit at large Insurer
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Enabled continuous delivery using modern architecture & DevOps
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Coached 100+ employees on Agile (CEO, heads & managers of business units)
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Built capability across multiple cross-functional teams (80 staff) chains
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Reduced customer onboarding time from 3 days to 20 minutes via digital app
Established Digital Unit at a large Bank
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Setup and built capability in 3 cross-functional digital teams
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Coached 200+ employees on Agile (CEO, heads & managers of business units)
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Moved Bank from 4th to 2nd place in the Annual Columinate Banking survey
Positions Held
Jan 2020 - Present: Managing Director at Digital Kinetics.
Sep 2018-Jan 2020: Associate Director at BCG Platinion WESA.
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018: Executive Digital Transformation at Cell C.
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017: Digital Manager at McKinsey & Co.
Nov 2012 - Aug 2016: Business and Technology Consultant at ThoughtWorks.
Sep 2008 - Dec 2012: Manager at Accenture.
Education
BSc in Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Hon Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer.
Key Strengths
Business Analysis.
Software Development.
Project Management.