Advisory, review and implementation
Consulting
Innovation management, your own open-source ERP and funding strategy for creative-economy organisations, civil society, funders and public programmes.
How I can help
Innovation and management strategy
For creative businesses, collectives and civil-society organisations with good work but no shared plan, numbers or workflow.
- Diagnostic: SWOT/TOWS and the degree of innovation, measured with the Innovation Radar
- Mission, objectives and revenue targets for each product or programme
- A management model: roles, processes, task and finance tools
- Indicators to track and report results
Proof: Casa Criatura strategic plan; applied research with 33 cultural organisations in Pernambuco.
Your own ERP, on your own server
For small teams that outgrew spreadsheets and chat apps, want to own their data and cannot pay per-user licences.
- Needs workshops and a clear map of what is native, community or custom
- An open-source ERP of your own, set up in your language: projects, finance, contracts, approvals, people
- Custom workflows, such as minutes that become tasks and expense batches read by OCR
- Hosting on your own server, backups and a user manual your team keeps
Proof: LabHacker Maceió and GIG.
Funding, research and partnerships
For organisations and networks looking for grants, consortia or investment.
- Funding strategy and proposal writing, from national calls to EU and international programmes
- Research and reports for funders and policy audiences
- Partnership and network facilitation across countries
- Independent review and assessment of proposals and programmes
Proof: EU-funded CoAct and Critical Making reports; prize assessment; GIG.
Also available: workshops and courses on innovation measurement and open education.
How we work
- ListenA first conversation to understand your context, goals and constraints.
- DiagnoseA short written diagnosis and proposal, with scope, deliverables and timeline.
- BuildWork in small deliveries that your team starts using from the first weeks.
- Hand overDocumentation, training and a clear path to keep it going without me.
Selected work
Own ERP
LabHacker Maceió: an own, open-source ERP
An open-source ERP in Portuguese, custom modules, manual and fundraising consulting.
Leadership
Global Innovation Gathering - GIG
International Executive Director of a global network of grassroots innovation hubs and makerspaces.
Strategy
Casa Criatura: management and innovation consulting
Strategic plan, product axes and management tools for an architecture and design studio.
Earlier engagements
Health & making
Careables Latin America
Local consultancy for the international platform for co-designing and producing open-source health products.
Review
Technical Assessor, Wellcome Snakebite Innovation Prize
Independent technical assessor for a £6.25M challenge prize on snakebite care.
- PYXERA Global / IBM Corporate Service Corps, Local consultant: led a team of 15 IBM pro-bono executives working with NGOs on digital literacy with Recife's Secretariat of Education (2018).
- konnektiv for GIZ, Researcher: opportunities for digitalisation in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021–2022).
- Instituto Procomum, Opportunities and leads assessor (2021–2023).
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Co-trainer in the SLE online training on management of development projects (2023).
- 3Ecologias, Co-founder and CEO: IT consultancy for environment, education and culture (2007–2018).
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