Luiz Ricardo Grzeca, Consultant

Luiz Ricardo Grzeca

Consultant

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Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Experience
25 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 1 Months

Consultant at ---
  • Singapore
  • My current job since April 2017

- Strategy formulation and Operations model for a leading regional tech consulting firm working with the largest financial services companies in the region. I structured the strategy, innovation and design processes, repositioning their offering, redesigning talent management routines to improve retention, staffing the team (from 9 to 15 consultants), and improving sales processes resulting in >3MSGD in sales in 3 months - Singapore
- Innovation process benchmark and governance model for a large financial institution - Singapore
- Digital transformation strategy for a large insurance firm to structure the ambidextrous capacity, including situation/gap analysis, proposal of new governance model to enable enterprise agility, definition of high level innovation process and job design - Hanoi, Vietnam

Product Innovation Director at Marcura
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2013 to March 2017

A group of 600+ professionals offering Products & Professional Services such as Procure-to-Payment, Analytics, Contract Management and Consulting for clients in the commodities trading and maritime industry. Reporting to the CEO and working alongside the chairman and the board of directors, my achievements include:
• Led the digital transformation program, defining and implementing operating models in collaboration with the board of directors.
• Defined the digital strategy and implementation roadmap at corporate level resulting in horizontal diversification with the creation of new product lines and service verticals.
• Reduced time to market and new products development costs in up to 70% with the implementation of an Innovation Process based on Lean and Design Thinking.
• Optimized the software development processes introducing Agile practices and new technologies to our dev-stack, allowing the team to decompose our core monolithic applications, upgrading and retiring these legacy systems, and resulting in quality improvements and substantial savings in code maintenance.
• Designed and managed a Corporate Innovation Lab, building a team of product managers, data scientists, designers and software developers.
• Structured and facilitated workshops and organized war rooms and hackathons to spark collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas, accelerating innovation and the adoption of leading practices.
• Implemented design patterns and style guides to enable faster iterations of prototypes, decreasing risk and increasing the final product quality.

Design/Product Manager at Nokia
  • Brazil
  • January 2012 to December 2012

• Led a team of 15+ design and usability specialists working on innovation products, delivering B2C apps for Nokia's mobile platforms that reached millions of users.
• Delivered the world’s first NFC mobile payment application, the most downloaded mobile game on Nokia’s app store history, with more than 1 million users, subsequently also a leader on MS Windows Phone Store, assistive technology for users with visual impairments and mission critical BI and logistics information systems for the production line of mobile phones in Brazil and LATAM region.

Design Manager/Strategist at Various
  • Brazil
  • January 1999 to December 2011

• Provided Design Strategy and Innovation consultancy for advertising agencies and software houses serving VW, Pepsi, Itau and Bradesco (largest private banks in Brazil), Telefonica (telecom), Natura (beauty), Riachuelo (retail), Vivo and many others.
• Created pitch winning concepts and designs for brands such as Burger King, Bosch, Telefonica/Vivo, Dr. Oetker.
• Selected, managed and developed internal teams and external suppliers of designers and software developers.

Education

Master's degree, Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • at CASS BUSINESS SCHOOL
  • July 2019

Specialties & Skills

Digital Transformation
Product Management
Innovation
Design Strategy
Design Thinking
ADVERTISING
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
INNOVATIVE
LOGISTICS
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
STRATEGIC
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELEPHONE SKILLS

Languages

Portuguese
Native Speaker
English
Expert
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Design Thinking - Professional Track (Training)
Training Institute:
d.School - HPI - Germany

Hobbies

  • Photography
  • Travelling