How Antonio Di Bacco, innovation consultant, works with companies outside Italy, with or without a presence in the country: languages, remote and on-site work, how a project is structured, how results are measured. If your question is missing, write to me.
Yes, with or without a presence in Italy. Remote work and English make the distance a detail; what changes is the reason a company calls me. Some have a branch or a supplier here and want someone on the ground who knows how Italian companies, banks and public bodies actually respond. Others have nothing in Italy and want the method: a process put in order, with KPIs fixed before anything is touched. Through the EIT programmes I mentor startups across Europe, from Romania to Turkey and Ukraine, and I have worked with teams in Latin America.
English and Italian, for meetings, documents and dashboards alike. Everything can run in English. When a project involves people in Italy, it usually runs in English with management and in Italian with the team on the floor, and moving between the two is part of the job.
Remote by default, on site when a phase needs it. The initial analysis and the sessions with the team gain from a day or two in the company; the build and the measurement run well over video calls. I am based in Turin, on Central European Time.
The person you talk to, the person who analyses and the person who builds are the same, which is why I take on few projects at a time. When a project needs skills I lack, or more hands than mine, I bring in professionals I have worked with for years, and I tell you beforehand who they are and why. Your point of contact stays me.
AI works alongside people across the whole job: it speeds up repetitive processes, helps generate and test ideas, reads data and markets, and lets people who are not developers by trade build their own tools. I build some of mine this way, such as Argoboard for projects and payments and Textura for my editorial plan; you will find them on the Projects page.
In four phases: initial analysis, build, field test, measure and hand over. Scope and KPIs are fixed before anything is touched. Every phase leaves something the team can use.
It depends on the scope, which we fix before starting. Work on a single process closes in a few weeks; a project across several processes takes a few months. For an ongoing presence as fractional manager we agree a number of days per month and a date to review it.
Very little. A good part of the work starts from processes that today live on scattered spreadsheets and in people's heads, and putting the data in order is often the first phase. One thing does need to be there: someone who decides. An owner or a manager who wants to see results, and who will be in the room.
The KPIs are set in the initial analysis, before anything changes, and at the end we compare the same numbers: hours recovered per week, time to answer a lead, requests handled without a person, weeks to close a supplier selection. The dashboard stays in the company, so the measurement carries on when I am no longer there.
In the EIT acceleration programmes I work with the founding team on business model, go-to-market and impact measurement, in sessions spread over the programme. For accelerators and corporate innovation units outside those programmes the terms are the same: a set number of sessions, a goal for each, and the experience of someone who has run commercial functions at Eutelsat, SEAT and Kompass and who now builds these things inside companies.
I am listed on the European Commission's register of experts and I evaluate European tenders. The confidentiality and conflict-of-interest commitments I signed mean I never discuss specific proposals, calls or applicants, and I do not assist anyone applying to a call I evaluate. What I can bring to a client is the general logic: what makes a project fundable on paper, and what makes it die in month six.
Thirty minutes on video, free. You tell me where the time goes, I tell you whether I can be useful and where I would start. No sales pitch. If it makes sense to work together, you receive a written proposal: the process to start from, the phases, the KPIs and the timing. If it makes no sense, I say so on the call, and where I can I point you to someone who fits.
The first call is free and has one purpose: to work out whether I can be useful to you. No sales pitch.
Pick a date and time. A 30-minute video call.
BookIf you would rather start in writing. I reply within 24 hours.
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