Professional in computer science area, with experience of trainer in several vocational training centers. Is a professor of Information Systems in the 1st Cycles of Higher Education, namely in the disciplines of Theory and Practice of Information Systems, Systems Analysis and Business Process Management. He was a senior member of Portugal Telecom, responsible for the management of infrastructure switching and transmission agreements with European operators, among others. He started his professional career in 1990 in a software house where he performed technical and commercial functions and training in the support of commercial client management.Defended in December 2017 the doctoral thesis in a Public Institution of Higher Education under the theme "Business-IT Alignment", where the approaches of Business Process Management have a framework. He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Social Policy and a degree in Engineering of Decision Systems.
Resumo—A aquisição das competências e de comportamentos adequados à integração profissional é obj... more Resumo—A aquisição das competências e de comportamentos adequados à integração profissional é objectivo de uma aprendizagem abrangente e profissionalizante. No desenvolvimento de software, que experiências podem proporcionar a aquisição destas competências? A inclusão de componentes profissionais pode ajudar os estudantes a compreender melhor a passagem dos conceitos teóricos para a prática nas organizações. O conceito de “comunidade de prática” é realmente uma das formas de promover esta ...
Business-IT alignment has consistently ranked in the top five IT management concerns for almost a... more Business-IT alignment has consistently ranked in the top five IT management concerns for almost a decade now. Despite a considerable research since the 90s, business-IT alignment still remains a challenge even more in turbulent organizational environments requiring business strategy to be more frequently examined and changed. We need effective ways to achieve and sustain alignment between the information systems and technology strategy and the business strategy so organizations become more flexible and agile. Enterprise architecture may be one of those effective ways particularly when developed under a business process management approach. Looking into a consulting practice that has adopted such approach, this research highlights the role of one particular model, the organizational competences model, in the clarification of the strategy and in the development of the enterprise architecture for a wine regulatory commission, the organization that was used as a case study.
Abstract The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some tim... more Abstract The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some time. However, a competitive marketplace changing at a rapid pace requires that linkage to be a dynamic one. Some sort of alignment between IS and strategy has not only to be achieved but also to be sustained what may be rather difficult in turbulent organizational environments.
5th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, 2010
Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long t... more Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long time. Despite all the efforts, achieving and sustaining Business-IT alignment remains a challenge requiring even more agility nowadays to keep up with the competition in a turbulent organizational environment. Past contributions are uncovered in this paper calling particular attention to the development of Enterprise Architecture as a way of addressing this challenge. However, this should be a process to be carried out in the most effective ways looking especially at time and costs. Having proposed frameworks as a point of departure to reflect on the ways they may or may not work in practice, a dialogical action research is proposed for this work involving a close interaction with consultant companies. The resulting improved expertise both from the researcher and practitioners involved should allow for the identification of the most effective ways of achieving and sustaining Business-IT a...
Social networks are present in our day-to-day and have a strong influence in almost all our perso... more Social networks are present in our day-to-day and have a strong influence in almost all our personal and professional aspects. Among several benefits and challenges brought by Social Networks, we cannot ignore their potential in what e-commerce is concerned. Social shopping allows potential buyers to obtain information and opinions issued by other buyers with similar profiles, on products and services they are planning to acquire. This way, instead of allowing a brand or product to create in the community users the need or will to buy, it is the community itself, through social networks, to self-influence in the sense of defining what are the products and services they want to be marketed and in what way, thus obtaining better prices and reaffirming its identity. To accompany the acceptance of cybernauts of these new communication spaces, like for instance Facebook, and understanding whether these users are as well motivated in participating and taking advantage of these platforms a...
This work is supported by FEDER funding through the Competitiveness Factors Operational Programme... more This work is supported by FEDER funding through the Competitiveness Factors Operational Programme – COMPETE and national funding through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology under the project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674.
Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long t... more Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long time. Despite all the efforts, achieving and sustaining Business-IT alignment remains a challenge requiring even more agility nowadays to keep up with the competition in a turbulent organizational environment. Past contributions are uncovered in this paper calling particular attention to the development of Enterprise Architecture as
The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some time. Howeve... more The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some time. However, a competitive marketplace changing at a rapid pace requires that linkage to be a dynamic one. Some sort of alignment between IS and strategy has not only to be achieved but also to be sustained what may be rather difficult in turbulent organizational environments.
Resumo—A aquisição das competências e de comportamentos adequados à integração profissional é obj... more Resumo—A aquisição das competências e de comportamentos adequados à integração profissional é objectivo de uma aprendizagem abrangente e profissionalizante. No desenvolvimento de software, que experiências podem proporcionar a aquisição destas competências? A inclusão de componentes profissionais pode ajudar os estudantes a compreender melhor a passagem dos conceitos teóricos para a prática nas organizações. O conceito de “comunidade de prática” é realmente uma das formas de promover esta ...
Business-IT alignment has consistently ranked in the top five IT management concerns for almost a... more Business-IT alignment has consistently ranked in the top five IT management concerns for almost a decade now. Despite a considerable research since the 90s, business-IT alignment still remains a challenge even more in turbulent organizational environments requiring business strategy to be more frequently examined and changed. We need effective ways to achieve and sustain alignment between the information systems and technology strategy and the business strategy so organizations become more flexible and agile. Enterprise architecture may be one of those effective ways particularly when developed under a business process management approach. Looking into a consulting practice that has adopted such approach, this research highlights the role of one particular model, the organizational competences model, in the clarification of the strategy and in the development of the enterprise architecture for a wine regulatory commission, the organization that was used as a case study.
Abstract The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some tim... more Abstract The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some time. However, a competitive marketplace changing at a rapid pace requires that linkage to be a dynamic one. Some sort of alignment between IS and strategy has not only to be achieved but also to be sustained what may be rather difficult in turbulent organizational environments.
5th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, 2010
Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long t... more Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long time. Despite all the efforts, achieving and sustaining Business-IT alignment remains a challenge requiring even more agility nowadays to keep up with the competition in a turbulent organizational environment. Past contributions are uncovered in this paper calling particular attention to the development of Enterprise Architecture as a way of addressing this challenge. However, this should be a process to be carried out in the most effective ways looking especially at time and costs. Having proposed frameworks as a point of departure to reflect on the ways they may or may not work in practice, a dialogical action research is proposed for this work involving a close interaction with consultant companies. The resulting improved expertise both from the researcher and practitioners involved should allow for the identification of the most effective ways of achieving and sustaining Business-IT a...
Social networks are present in our day-to-day and have a strong influence in almost all our perso... more Social networks are present in our day-to-day and have a strong influence in almost all our personal and professional aspects. Among several benefits and challenges brought by Social Networks, we cannot ignore their potential in what e-commerce is concerned. Social shopping allows potential buyers to obtain information and opinions issued by other buyers with similar profiles, on products and services they are planning to acquire. This way, instead of allowing a brand or product to create in the community users the need or will to buy, it is the community itself, through social networks, to self-influence in the sense of defining what are the products and services they want to be marketed and in what way, thus obtaining better prices and reaffirming its identity. To accompany the acceptance of cybernauts of these new communication spaces, like for instance Facebook, and understanding whether these users are as well motivated in participating and taking advantage of these platforms a...
This work is supported by FEDER funding through the Competitiveness Factors Operational Programme... more This work is supported by FEDER funding through the Competitiveness Factors Operational Programme – COMPETE and national funding through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology under the project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674.
Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long t... more Aligning Business and Information Technologies strategies has been a subject studied for a long time. Despite all the efforts, achieving and sustaining Business-IT alignment remains a challenge requiring even more agility nowadays to keep up with the competition in a turbulent organizational environment. Past contributions are uncovered in this paper calling particular attention to the development of Enterprise Architecture as
The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some time. Howeve... more The linkage between information systems and strategy has been studied for quite some time. However, a competitive marketplace changing at a rapid pace requires that linkage to be a dynamic one. Some sort of alignment between IS and strategy has not only to be achieved but also to be sustained what may be rather difficult in turbulent organizational environments.
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