We rapidly create and maintain interconnected communities of diverse stakeholders and skillsets for the delivery of projects with the potential for significant social impact. As a consortium, we bring a great deal of flexibility and a wide variety of expertise to each and every project we undertake. For more information on our approach please scroll down or click one of the buttons below.
The Eureka approach – Turning barriers into opportunities
Our approach is founded on an understanding of the power of diversity and collaboration in solving complex problems. We believe a diversity of mindsets, subject-matter-expertise, cultural backgrounds and problem-solving approaches working in alignment are more likely to identify an appropriate solution and make it more resilient to future challenges. Collaboratively developed solutions are preferred because stakeholders are more likely to accept, adopt and implement solutions that they have been personally involved in creating. However, diversity and collaboration can create conflict. We seek to manage that conflict and deliver a consistent level of customer service by adhering to the following principles:
We are capable of transitioning support, adapting roles, ending or starting contracts at short notice. This includes switching between a manager/mentor role and a doer role within the same contract.
No entrenched position to protect, unlike an employee and therefore able to share opinions, thoughts and ideas openly while maintaining respect.
We set clear expectations about workload, availability and expected deliverables and are upfront if expectations seem unrealistic.
Able to empathize with clients’ requirements, end-users need, the aims and goals of the project and competing priorities.
Ambitious in pursuit of change, willing to take on projects with unclear outcomes and trust that a solution will emerge from a collaborative process.
Our Services
Our member consultants have a wide range of experience and expertise they utilise to help our clients create social impact, and ideally, we prefer to work collaboratively with our clients to develop the desired solution or services required. We actively develop and cultivate relationships with a wide range of different social impact volunteer groups – hackers; makers; thinkers; gamers; and change makers – in order to be able to develop innovative solutions.
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Health systems strengthening: The design, conduct and management of health system strengthening programs. Particular experience with infectious disease management (HIV, TB and Ebola), laboratory networks, ehealth and health commodity supply chains
Organizational Strategy Management, including: strategy development; strategic planning; systems thinking; solution development; governance capacity and process development; change management; team building; fundraising and proposal development.
Management Quality/Operations Management, includingL process mapping; operational and business process design; project management; supply chain management and HR management.
Project Evaluations, TPMs and Organizational Assessments, Including:� monitoring and evaluation design; internal monitoring and evaluation; third party evaluations; and sustainability metric design and measurement.
Research and communication, including: Academic research; research synthesis; technical writing; case-study development; protocol development; communication process improvement and facilitated communication.
Market shaping, forecasting and business modelling, including: Financial and market analysis; forecasting, market entry strategy development; health commodity landscape assessments, use-case development,� inclusive and social enterprise business modelling;� budgeting, procurement quantification and supply chain management.
Capacity development: EIC is capable of training others on any of the services we provide as well as developing strategic training interventions and curriculum on other topics. Our services include training, capacity building, curriculum development, and institutional strengthening.
Our Members
Eureka members come from diverse cultural, social, educational and technical backgrounds and we are located all around the world. We cherish and actively seek to expand the diversity of our membership base in order to develop better solutions and provide better services to our clients.
The Eureka membership base currently consists of members located in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas with extensive development experience in these regions. In addition to the broad geographical expertise our consultants also offer a wide range of services drawn from their varied education and technical expertise. You can review some of our members expertise by filtering, sorting and searching our member database below.
Governance
Eureka Idea Co. is a unique organisation with a unique governance structure. To understand Eureka and how we operate, it is important to undestand that the ‘Co.’ stands for Consortium, Company and Community.
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Being a freelance independent contractor can be lonesome. We prefer to work in small, high performing teams and as part of a broader aligned community because it is more enjoyable and rewarding. We believe we can go further and achieve more, together. We support each other and are united by purposeful ambition.
Eureka’s governance mechanisms and business model has been designed to reflect and emphasises the benefits of our unique identify and structure. As such we aspire to be a members owned and operated consortium, and have established safeguards into traditional corporate governance mechanisms and our business model to achieve our aims. For example, we have:
- A custom constitution, empowered under the Corporations Act 2001 at the inception of Eureka and adjusted to reflect our consortium based operating model and our primary focus on creating impact.
- A board of directors that regularly review and approve the management budget and OKRs and who oversee the transition to a members owned and operated organisation, where the board represents the member shareholder interests.
- An Annual general meeting, empowered by the constitution to enable member shareholders to elect the board and vote on strategic, operational and financial considerations.
- Our code of conduct and ethics which enshrines our decentralised management approach and the autonomy of each member.
- A dispute resolution process whereby issues unresolvable by members involved are referred to the board for deliberation.
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