Welcome to the site of Lobo & Associados, an organization that offers consultancy, preparation of projects, management, training and development of human resources in the areas of science, technology, education and administration of services.
By visiting our pages you will become acquainted with our philosophy, our senior professional staff, the principles, values and policies we support and practise, the areas of operation for consultancy and the courses available or programmed.
Moreover, you will find the addresses and the access for easy contact with us and effective acquisition of information.
It will be a great pleasure for us to assist you, as we have made ourselves ready to help those who know and want to know more.
Address:
Rua José Urbano Sanches, 420 - Vila Oliveira
Mogi das Cruzes, Estado de São Paulo - Brazil
Zip Code (08780-220)
Telefax 55 (11) 4796-2811
Profissional Experience of the Directors
Roberto Leal Lobo e Silva Filho
Consultant and Director of Lobo & Associados
Ph.D. in Physics, Purdue University (1967)
Rector of the University of São Paulo (1990-1993)
Rector of the University of Mogi das Cruzes (1996-1999)
Maria Beatriz de Carvalho Melo Lobo
Consultant and Director of Lobo & Associados
Degree in University Administration, University of Florida (1994)
Pedagogic Director of the University of Fortaleza (1990-1992)
Vice-rector of the University of Mogi das Cruzes (1995-1999)
OUR ENTERPRISE
Founded in 1999, Lobo & Associados Consultoria e Participação S/C Ltda., was created to assemble experiences and administrators of national significance, to promote the study of educational questions, and to offer through consultancy and partnership the opportunity of working together with other administrators and institutions that wish to develop integrated projects specially devised to solve academic and administrative problems linked to education, science and technology.
It was the shortage in Brazil of formalised advisory bodies with knowledge of both the academic and managerial sectors of higher education and with the skills of business executives, supported by the know-how required to set up quality institutional projects and acquainted with successful models throughout the world, that motivated Dr Roberto Leal Lobo. A former rector of the Universities of São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes, former director of the National Research Center, and one of the leading names in higher education in Brazil, Dr Lobo decided to offer the staff of several renowned Brazilian universities who share, besides professional competence, academic and managerial experience in the private and public sectors of higher education, in government agencies and in organizations for the fostering of research, the possibility of coming together and participating in a network with the best administrators of public and private Brazilian institutions, as well as with advisers from the United States and Europe.
This innovative and independent enterprise, established to develop a methodology tailor-made to respect the institutional mission, the peculiarities, the legal and financial dimensions and limitations of each client, aims to ensure the development of sectorial and global projects, simultaneously or sequentially, of public and private institutions faced with managerial or operational problems in need of a new framing or definition of market, or even the reformulation of institutional goals and policies.
Lobo & Associados, led by the conviction that institutions must be always on the frontiers of knowledge, capable of developing new concepts and techniques, and that individual quality is fundamental in the acquisition of global quality, has built units for the improvement, training and creation of human resources, enabling administrators to overcome the challenges of ever fiercer competition, new legal demands and the constant quest for better procedures and results.
OUR MISSION
To help improve the policies and the quality of public and private institutions in the areas of education, science and technology, making use of the intellectual wealth of professionals whose competence and experience are acknowledged nationwide.
OUR PRINCIPLES AND VALUES
· Trustworthiness and credibility
· Sharing and distribution of work, responsibilities and results
· Involvement in ethically acceptable projects
· Respectful approach to a variety of institutional missions and objectives
· Team work organized hierarchically and methodologically
· Non engagement in areas with conflict of interests clearly discernible
GENERAL POLICIES
· Act as a center of modernization, formation, training, allocation and managing of human resources
· Standardize procedures and actions of enterprise and its third-party services
· Seek for the best specific response to the demands in areas where enterprise operates
· Follow through and evaluate each project as a whole
· Keep supporting staff well qualified and motivated
· Enter into partnership with trustworthy institutions of recognized excellence to improve performance
· Offer conceptual and technical support to personnel allocated to projects and institutions
AREAS OF ACTIVITY
1 - Advisory services / Consultancy
2 - Consultation / Day
3 - Courses / Seminars / Workshops
4 - Research and Data Survey
1- ADVISORY SERVICES / CONSULTANCY
Working out projects, analyses, follow- up, suggestions and benchmarking in the following sectors/areas:
INSTITUTIONAL:
· Working out Statute and Policy of Maintainers and Institutions of Higher Education (IHE)
· Structure and organograms
· Creation of Educational Institutions, Foundations and Maintainers
· Institutional change; transformation into University, University Centres and Integrated Departments
· Survey of higher education scenarios
· Dialogues between firms with higher education projects and IHE
· Management orientation and training for successors in family enterprises
· Professionalizing management
· Relationship between Maintainer and Maintained
· Obtaining other revenues and loans
· Advisory services to financial organizations and national and international agencies
· Advice in financial transactions aiming at creating, acquiring, blending or selling IHE
PLANNING AND MARKETING:
· Institutional Development Plan (IDP)
· Institutional and Sectorial Strategic Planning
· Tactical and Operational Planning
· Sectorial Managerial Plans: Computing - Libraries - Campus - Expansion
· Market Research and Analysis - Analysis of competition, supply and demand for new areas of activity
· Research and improvement of institutional image
· Analysis of the composite of marketing
· Attracting and keeping students
· Analysis of satisfaction among academic community, clients and suppliers
EVALUATION:
· Evaluation:
- Institutional
- Of undergraduate and sequential courses
- Of teachers and staff performance
- Of substructure
- Of extension
- Of research
- Of postgraduate studies
- Of University Hospitals
· Diagnosis:
- Academic
- Administrative
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT:
· Developing and surveying leadership
· Human resources policies
· Teaching career
· Technical-Administrative career
· Recruiting, selecting, qualifying, evaluating, paying and retaining teaching staff
· Establishing Human Resources sector
ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT:
· Strategies for establishment, development, administration and financing of Undergraduate Courses, Extension, Research and Postgraduate School
· International co-operation
· Teaching organisation
· Curricular reformulation
· System of pending credits
· Selective processes
· Creation of campus
· Creation of undergraduate, sequential, extension, postgraduate courses lato e stricto sensu
· Creation of Higher Institutes of Education and Centres of Technological Education
· Interaction with the community
· Relationship University-Corporation
· Transfer of technology
· Correspondence courses
ACADEMIC SUPPORT SERVICES:
· Informativeness: - Academic and Administrative / - Sectorial and Institutional
· Support to students
· Project and Management of Libraries
· Improvement and modernisation of Main Office
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION:
· Financial administration and budget elaboration
· Budget control and centres of costs
· Analysis of costs and indicators
· Obtaining resources
· Strategies to reduce breaches of contrac
2 - CONSULTATIONS / DAY
Meetings organized in the offices of Lobo & Associados for discussion and presentation of specific problems; relevant material and information being sent beforehand by the IHE and the conclusive report taking 7 workdays to be elaborated.
3 - COURSES / SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS
Covering topics of academic/administrative management and aiming at the training, qualification and formation of human resources for the IHE - managers/maintainers/teachers.
· Open events of a national nature
· Commissioned events held in the IHE
· Tailor made events - created specially for a IHE
· Lectures
· Co-ordination of events
4 - RESEARCH AND DATA SURVEY
Work done from existing or collected data to answer managerial questions concerning sectors of education, science and technology.