Services

Current services are listed below, custom services on request.

• Product development. For startups, scale-ups and media companies, including scoping new features based on market research.
• Business development, marketing and sales. Positioning products and building partnerships with publishers and workflow providers, as done for SciScore, from research tool to integrated publishing-workflow solution.
• Partnerships and pilots. Establishing partnerships with corporates and setting up pilots, for example through The Next Web Programs (now part of nlmtd).
• Strategic advisory. Strategic positioning, stakeholder engagement and new partnerships, currently for the RCO Critical Edition of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
• Platform advisory. Refining requirements, preparing cost scenarios, and supporting market exploration and supplier selection for new platforms, including integration needs, scalability, funding and procurement. Currently advising GLIA Diagnostiek on an online continuing education platform for laboratory professionals.
• Research impact and scholarly metadata. Turning open data from sources such as OpenAlex, Crossref, DataCite and Europe PMC into traceable impact stories, with openscience.works.
• Startup mentoring. Sharing expertise in health, product and building businesses, for example as mentor in Rockstart Health (2019 to 2021) and as Head of Innovation at Springer Nature (2016 to 2019).
• Moderating and organising sessions. Panels and sessions on innovation and startups in scholarly publishing, for example at STM Innovator Day.

Skills

• Product innovation and development
• Business development, marketing and sales
• Partnership and pilot design
• Strategic positioning and stakeholder engagement
• Platform requirements, procurement and supplier selection
• Scholarly metadata and research impact
• Startup scouting and mentoring
• Market understanding and trend spotting
• Networking
• Public speaking and moderating