Zürich → Global · Systems Strategist

Most experts optimize the box.
I ask why the box exists.

I'm Felipe — a generalist who connects emerging technology to what people actually need. Not scattered. Multi-dimensional. The hardest problems are rarely solved by more expertise — they're solved by someone who sees the pattern everyone else is standing too close to notice.

Book a fit call See how I think A 30-minute conversation, not a pitch.
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Portrait of Philipp “Felipe” Riedel
// on the name

I was born Philipp. In Paraguay, everyone heard “Felipe” — so I stopped correcting them and kept it. Deleting pointless friction turned out to be the whole job.

So what do I do? I take it all in — and see the connections, and the disconnections, that no one else does.

Then I help you see it — clearly.

The operating system

It's not what I know.
It's how I connect the dots.

Specialists go deep into one well. I move between them — and connect what nobody at the bottom can see. You're not hiring a single discipline. You're hiring the wiring between all of them.

01 / curiosity

I go down the rabbit hole on purpose

Where most stop at the brief, I keep pulling threads — into requirements, dependencies, the assumptions nobody wrote down. Depth isn't a detour. It's where the real problem lives.

02 / pattern

I borrow solutions across worlds

A fix from agriculture solves a diagnostics problem. A pattern from automotive unlocks a lab. A career spent crossing fields gave me a library most specialists never see — and I draw from all of it at once.

03 / foresight

I see the failure before it happens

Risk isn't a phase at the end. I map where things break the moment we begin — so the problems you'd hit in month nine get designed out in week one.

04 / structure

Where you see chaos, I see a diagram waiting

Complexity doesn't overwhelm me — it organizes. I'm most useful exactly where the moving parts, the stakeholders and the unknowns have tangled into something no one can hold in their head.

05 / candor

I tell you what I actually see

You don't need another consultant who agrees with you. You need a sparring partner who'll name the thing in the room — directly, kindly, and without the political translation.

06 / catalyst

I'm the spark, not the headcount

My job is to shift the level you're thinking at, then leave you with a map you can run yourself — because you can't solve a problem from the same thinking that made it.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
// for the record

PRODEX Award, 2016 — Switzerland's most prestigious prize for manufacturing innovation, for a precision-tool breakthrough.

Plus three granted patents in diagnostics & automation. The unconventional thinking isn't theory — it ships, and it wins.

The shape of it

One mind, many dimensions

Not a checklist of skills — the dimensions a generalist mind works across at once. Hover any one to see what it means for you.

    Where I'm useful

    You probably know the symptom.
    I'm here for the cause.

    These are the moments people call me — described the way they actually feel from the inside, not as a list of services.

    You're building something complex

    The pieces won't fit together

    A product with too many moving parts, too many stakeholders, and a roadmap full of unknowns. I bring model-based systems thinking to make the whole thing legible — and buildable.

    You're in a regulated world

    Compliance is slowing everything down

    Medical devices, diagnostics, safety-critical systems. I turn the regulatory maze into a strategy — risk frameworks and certification paths that protect you without killing momentum.

    You have an idea worth protecting

    It's brilliant, but it's still just an idea

    Three granted patents taught me how to turn a spark into defensible, ownable IP — and how to tell early which ideas are actually worth the fight.

    Your teams are scattered

    Smart people, working in silos

    Cross-functional, cross-border, cross-purposes. I orchestrate the collaboration so the expertise you already pay for finally points in the same direction.

    In other people's words

    What it's like on the other side of the table

    A systems engineer paired with remarkable creativity and curiosity.
    Patrick KollerMatchspace
    A highly valuable sparring partner for analyzing complex challenges in a structured way.
    Stefanie Pasternakixtrac AG & Sanassist AG
    An attentive listener with strong analytical skills and an impressive breadth of general knowledge.
    Sebastian BächlerEngineering Management
    Ways in

    Three ways to put a different mind on it

    Start small and low-risk, or go all in. Every engagement begins with the same fit call — so we both know it's the right problem for the right brain.

    Start here

    The Sparring Call

    90 min · fixed fee · from CHF 480*

    Bring me your knottiest, most-stuck problem. One focused session. You leave with the problem re-framed and the next three moves mapped.

    • You're circling the same issue and can't get traction
    • You want a fresh, unfiltered outside read — fast
    • No retainer, no slides, no commitment beyond the hour
    Book the call
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    The Pattern Audit

    2–3 weeks · fixed scope · quoted per project

    I go deep on your system, map the dependencies and risks, and find the real problem under the one you hired me for. You get a strategy you can act on — not a binder you shelve.

    • A complex build, launch, or certification is stalling
    • You suspect you're solving the wrong problem
    • You need clarity and a path before you commit budget
    See if it fits
    Go deep

    The Catalyst Engagement

    Ongoing · fractional · monthly

    An embedded sparring partner and systems strategist for a transformation, a hard innovation push, or a regulated product all the way to market.

    • You want the thinking in the room, not parachuted in
    • Cross-functional teams that need orchestrating
    • High stakes, long horizon, no margin for the wrong turn
    Start a conversation

    * placeholder pricing — swap for Felipe's real numbers before launch

    The next step

    Not sure which? Start with a conversation.

    Thirty minutes, no slides, no pressure. You describe what you're wrestling with, I tell you honestly whether I'm the right mind for it — and if I'm not, who is. That's the whole pitch.

    Prefer email? felipe@systems-strategy.ch · WhatsApp +41 79 555 61 70