João José Pinto Ferreira

University of Porto | UP · Faculty of Engineering

“Addressing the climate challenge presents a golden opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all.”Ban Ki-Moon, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Humanity is pushing the earth system beyond its natural limits. Rapid population growth and exponential consumption exert synergistic and compounded strains on ou...

This study reviewed the literature to understand “how does research produce impact?”. Despite all discussion threads in the literature, it was clear that management of the Front-end of Innovation (FEI) of non-profit research centers has received little attention. As a result, this study was a first step toward proposing a model that describes the F...

This study aims to conceptualise the risks of a co-creation relationship between providers and customers in the front end of innovation (FEI). The existing literature on the topic of the interactions between customers and providers is vast but mostly reflects the vision of each respective field of science addressing specific issues and dynamics. Th...

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A few months ago, we claimed that COVID-19 had the potential to be a catalyst for change and innovation (Mention et al., 2020). Undeniably, this has indeed eventuated, but to a scale that was unforeseeable and unpredictable to many. Over the last few months, the world has literally changed. Around the world, people and communities have seen their l...

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only in memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter’s colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. Elbert Hubbard At a very early age, we start to develop a sense of playfulness. We touch things, we...

As we write this editorial, people around the world are apprehensive about their future; some are at home; some are thinking about the loved ones they cannot visit; some, unfortunately, are dying. We watch the graphs and listen to the daily news of new coronavirus cases, but be it just one or one thousand, for the those close of the ones affected,...

We initiated this series with a view to catalyse and extend the focus on conceptualisation and application of behavioural science methods for managing innovation, albeit from a whole human perspective. We started with the notion that how to increase individual (human) creativity, collaboration productivity and innovativeness in innovation projects...

The key contribution of this paper is the proposal of a novel conceptual model for the social business value proposition. This research was about making sense out of the body of knowledge underlying social business concepts and perspectives, stemming from the social entrepreneurship literature, and building on the so-called business model ontology...

The initial phase of the innovation process is widely accepted as an important driver of positive results for new products and for the success of businesses. The Front End of Innovation (FEI) is a multidisciplinary area that includes a variety of activities, such as ideation, opportunity identification and analysis, feasibility analysis, global tre...

In our previous editorial, we positioned our perspective and introduced the acronym “ROTRUS” to characterise the science of managing for innovation as – Real world, Observable, Testable, Replicable, Uncertain and Social. Specifically, we argued that methods that draw on point-in-time beliefs, perceptions and de-humanised data in a complex and evolv...

Some might argue that ever so nimble and responsive innovation paradigms can rarely be managed scientifically. We propose a more inclusive perspective. Science of managing for innovation has certain characteristics which we identify through the acronym “ROTRUS”- Real-world, Observable, Testable, Replicable, Uncertain and Social. Real-world refers t...

‘Our mind-set will be to avoid the moonshot’ said Boeing CEO James McNerney at a Wall Street analysts meeting in Seattle nearly 5 years ago (see Gates, 2014). The ambitious, exploratory and risky endeavour dubbed as moonshot project of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had sunk billions of dollars in an industry where end-users demanded more comfort and co...

Reviews of literature including systematic meta-analysis are invaluable to advance science and guide directions for future research. The premise for conducting reviews is well established (Dickersin & Berlin, 1992; Glass, 1976). Systematic reviews in a field gather scholarly efforts on a topic, theme, population, setting and treatment conditions to...

Wisdom of the crowds, Technological capabilities and Functional alignment, which when recognised and utilised in innovation processes, can unlock the ability to source, develop and commercialise ideas at rapid pace. The phenomenon is known as technological convergence. By definition, technological convergence is described as the process by which In...

Wisdom of the crowds, Technological capabilities and Functional alignment, which when recognised and utilised in innovation processes, can unlock the ability to source, develop and commercialise ideas at rapid pace. The phenomenon is known as technological convergence. By definition, technological convergence is described as the process by which In...

The story of societal progress has long been acknowledged to involve two brothers - management research and management practice (Beyer, 1982). Although, reared by the same knowledge core (Poole and Van de Ven, 1989; Wallin and von Krogh, 2010), the brothers in a display of their contrasting lives behave independently, often disparately. Their disti...

Were you ever asked by a manager to ‘do what you want’, where you felt free to innovate? Did it feel like freedom? Maybe you felt encouraged since you could now experiment your idea, but did it mean that your performance was now on the radar? Could you then stay true to your vision or did you feel the need to compromise so that the ‘numbers lined u...

Have you ever been a tourist or a traveller? How did you plan that? What experiences did you collect? Ask a tourist and they will tell you that it is all about maximising time and money – see as many things as possible, take a picture and move on. Ask a traveller and they will tell you all about the hidden secrets of the land, how they felt when th...

In the last issue of 2015, the editorial was titled “Winter is coming: The dawn of Innovation?“ As almost 2 years have gone by, this topic was revisited. So why not wonder how innovation was going around this same time of the year? In trying to answer this question, a visit to Google© Trends revealed an interesting and possibly unexpected chart tha...

Entrepreneurship is a key component for answering the need for creating and strengthening businesses. The expected results of entrepreneurial activities are the creation of jobs and innovative firms. Therefore, entrepreneurship education plays a vital role in engaging students in the systematic practice of innovation. An entrepreneur committed to a...

What makes a good innovation management article? Let’s have a look at articles which incidentally have got the highest citations in the field of innovation management. These articles may give us some ideas on what a good innovation management publication entails. Notions below are not fully covering what should be included in article from introduct...

The Business Model Canvas (BMC) formulated by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur offers an easy, visual and concise canvas to create, innovate and discuss a business model. Nevertheless, in the case of social ventures, the business model canvas should not only facilitate the process of finding a business opportunity but also identify the social impa...

The beginning of the innovation process also known as Front End of Innovation (FEI) is an important contributor to the successful development of new products and the business success. The present study aims at giving an overview of how the FEI concept has been handled over the years, by identifying the focus of the research conducted in this domain...

It is common knowledge that history repeats itself! Maybe not literally, but patterns of behaviour likely dependent of the human nature, are probably prone to repeat themselves. So, one may wonder if looking back could help us prepare for a better future. Moreover, by looking back at the history of people and societies, we should all be able to hav...

Delivering impact is nowadays on top of the agenda of universities, worldwide. But what exactly does that mean? Universities' primary mission is to educate the young generations, by providing them with basic knowledge on a wide array of topics and disciplines and most importantly, by training them how to continuously learn - learn by doing, by refl...

Academic literature increasingly stresses the predominance of openness in contemporary organizations - porous boundaries, virtual and agile teams, temporary hierarchies, interconnectedness of networks and ecosystems. Managerial literature also abundantly depicts the benefits of openness. In contrast to what is being observed and reported at organiz...

Knowledge builds on itself. Scientific progress is achieved through piecewise advances, and is based on the enlightenment of prior evidence and discoveries. Accessing prior information has been a tremendously complex venture for centuries, and restricted to the privileged few. Technological progress and namely, the advent of Internet have opened a...

This Spring Issue will discuss about big data and multiple aspects of its usability and applicability. Many of us have seen blockbuster movies Back to the future (premiere in 1985), The Terminator (1984) or Minority report (2002). The unifying element of the above mentioned movies is that manuscripts are introducing a superior competitive advantage...

This paper builds on the application of the Conceptual Model Decomposing Value for the Customer framework and a quantitative model used to access the adequacy of both enterprise offering to the customer needs and of its supporting assets, based on the different dimension on value creation analyses. This innovative approach results from the research...

Innovation and knowledge creation are tightly related concepts. Collaborative innovation networks (COINs) are very productive ecosystems for knowledge generation. Acknowledging their relevance for innovation, we propose a novel ontology for knowledge management (KM) in COINs, which builds on COINs related literature and is partially derived from to...

As stated by the Cambridge on-line dictionary, Editorial, as a noun, is “an article in a newspaper that expresses the editor's opinion on a subject of particular interest at the present time”, whereas/and as an adjective, Editorial is “relating to editors or editing, or to the editor of a newspaper or magazine“. On the other hand, about the definit...

The new concept development is a critical stage of the innovation process that can be seen as a new knowledge creation process. This paper presents a new approach and a software tool for a collaborative new concept development. Our approach considers Collaborative Innovation Networks as ecosystems for new knowledge creation and integration, and Web...

This Fall Issue will discuss about the power of technology and Internet. Innovation is taking place everywhere through new and emerging technologies changing the way we think, live, breathe, travel, and do shopping to name a few areas. Funny enough is that some of us believe that the most important technologies are on the market available to please...

Given the growth in usage of online social networks, such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat, which rely on videos and images (such as photos) to relay information between connections, new intuitive languages, though not yet formally recognized, have emerged. We also herein give the example of a new language we have created – the Business...

Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term of Open Innovation in 2003, it has attracted increasing interest from academics, practitioners and policy-makers alike. More than a decade after, some noticeable and contrasted facts emerge. First, Open Innovation has deeply penetrated the research realms, across disciplines, yet mainly in business, economics...

Innovate or die. This observation is nothing new; yet it is probably more true and topical than ever. Over the last decades, innovation has expanded in an unprecedented manner and is now part of most firms’ strategies, if not the nexus of their strategies. Originally, mainly centred around the introduction of manufactured novelties, innovation is n...

In this paper we describe de application of a modeling framework, the so-called Conceptual Model Decomposing Value for the Customer (CMDVC), in a Footwear Industry case study, to ascertain the usefulness of this approach. The value networks were used to identify the participants, both tangible and intangible deliverables/endogenous and exogenous as...

The research presented in this paper proposes a novel quantitative model for decomposing and assessing the Value for the Customer. The proposed approach builds on the different dimensions of the Value Network analysis proposed by Verna Allee having as background the concept of Value for the Customer proposed by Woodall. In this context, the Value f...

Pre-historic communication included doing cave paintings, for example, of wild animals. Today, we continue to use images when communicating, most notably with videos and other such recordings. The advent and popularity of social networks on the Internet is based on the exchange of messages but for the most part on the sharing of images and videos....

Innovation lies at the heart of value creation, growth and competitiveness, and receives accrued attention in times of economic turbulence and slowdown. Organizations currently face increasingly dynamic environments and challenging conditions, which leave them exposed to higher levels of complexity and uncertainty. Thus, the ability of organization...

The expansion of human knowledge in all areas is largely the outcome of the activity of academic institutions and the result of their mission to contribute to the cultural, intellectual and economic development of the society, involving education, research and university extension activities. For many years, the academic community has been organizi...

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The research team measured the enterprise web accessibility levels of the Forbes 250 largest enterprises using the fully automatic accessibility evaluation tool Sortsite, and presented the compliance of the evaluated websites to WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 accessibility levels. Given the recent attention to organizational leaders having ethi...

When analysing a case study - the personal descriptions, the involved interviewers, the data analysis, as so many other possible elements – a simple qualitative method application revealed to be insufficient since it did not allow the going further than the analyst’s point of view, his ability to reproduce the heard reports and his personal or part...

Web accessibility is growing in importance. We may also find an increasing need for access to web resources by those with some sort of disability. The Web is very important for spreading information and for promoting interaction between the various elements in society. Given this, it is essential that the Web presents itself as a totally accessible...

This paper proposes a novel framework for modeling the Value for the Customer, the so-called Conceptual Model for Decomposing Value for the Customer (CMDVC). This conceptual model is first validated through an exploratory case study where the authors validate both the proposed constructs of the model and their relations. In a second step the author...

This is a conceptual paper supported by empirical research giving details of a new Business Narrative Modelling Language (BNML). The need for BNML arose given a growing dissatisfaction with qualitative research approaches and also due to the need to bring entrepreneurs, especially those with little training in management theory, closer to the acade...

Innovation is today a widely used buzzword in the enterprises environments, because it is seen today as the support for long-term surviving and a lever for the creation of new and differentiated products or services. The Fuzzy Front-End of Innovation (FFE) is often experimental, involving strong interaction with the end-users. This enables the know...

As innovation is essential for the competitiveness of enterprises and economic development there is a question which has been raised with some insistence: Do teaching practices make a difference to innovation and entrepreneurship in the work place? Experts were contacted for their views. They say yes, as long as the teaching method is adequate. So,...

In a group setting, the exposure to different thinking styles and people promotes what is called creative abrasion, which, if properly managed, can greatly enhance the innovation potential. This is the philosophy behind MIETE, which was conceived in 2004 to promote innovation and entrepreneurship with multidisciplinary teams. With this in mind, MIE...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how workflow management can be applied in the context of business networking. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at workflow management systems (WfMSs) as an enterprise integration tool and, as such, it shows that WfMS require an appropriate integration infrastructure. The paper then describes...

This paper discusses some of the challenges presently found both in supply chain and in extended enterprise management. It also presents details of a Distributed Business Process Coordination Infrastructure that was used as a platform in the development of a software-based management system for a global supply chain in the garment sector. The pilot...

Having in mind the inner value of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture itself, this paper explores the introduction of the time perspective into the framework by using GRAI-grid decision centres concept. The introduction to both these concepts paves the way to their combination in following paragraphs illustrating the Zachman / GRAI-gr...

Internet and information technologies have changed the way people interact and make business all over the world. Unfortunately, this is not completely true in the sense that the fast progress fostered by more dynamic economies has in fact been contributing to widening the so-called digital divide between rich and poor. This is a particularly true f...

Every time a workflow solution is conceived there is a large amount of functionality that is eventually reinvented and redeveloped from scratch. Workflow management systems from academia to the commercial arena exhibit a myriad of approaches having as much in common as in contrast with each other. Efforts in standardizing a workflow reference model...

Within the scope of virtual and networked enterprises, this paper introduces a novel methodology for the integration of quality management into enterprise modeling and allowing f or quality certification of the whole enterprise. The ISO 9001:2000 standard is presented as an interesting starting point f or the virtual enterprise quality management s...

Existing e-marketplaces, built on traditional client-server architectures, severely restrict the scope and dynamics of ,Business-to-Business (B2B) interactions. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures will provide far more decentralised infrastructures, while allowing a much wider range of business patterns to take place. On one hand, the interaction over...

Existing e-marketplaces, built on traditional client-server architectures. severely restrict the scope and dynamics of B2B interactions. Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures will provide far more decentralised infrastructures, while allowing a much wider range of business patterns to take place. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to argue that i...

E-Manufacturing: Business Paradigms and Supporting Technologies opens with a set of interesting selections from invited authors, covering perspectives such as concurrent engineering in product and process design, the tools needed to deal with people, relationships and networks, enterprise networking in Europe. This section closes with business and...

This chapter presents the concepts and the results of the DAMASCOS (Dynamic Forecast for Master Production Planning with Stock and Capacity Constraints) IST-1999-11850 project. It is the objective of DAMASCOS to design and develop an open platform that provides adequate IT modules and mechanisms to manage customised supply networks while integratin...

This paper presents on-going research in the supply-chain management area. With this effort, we aim at bridging the gap between business process modelling in the supply chain and business process co-ordination by means of innovative workflow management tools. In this context we present the Supply Chain Operation Reference Model (SCOR) and illustrat...

This paper presents the result of a research project. In the course of this project we demonstrated the application of business process management concepts in the extended construction enterprise, by using a Workflow Management System. The civil construction enterprise presents, usually, a distributed organisational structure (strategic enterprise,...

This paper proposes an enterprise modelling language (EML) for model-based shop floor control. To introduce a new computer executable modelling language, several modelling frameworks were analysed, namely the CIMOSA and GERAM frameworks. This language covers the different life cycle phases of enterprise modelling: design, implementation and operati...

Telework is an application area, which still possesses a large growth potential. The flexibility in the dimensions time and location of task execution stands for an innovative work organisation form. However, the main obstacle of telework is an increasing effort that has to be made for process co-ordination and monitoring. Therefore the objective o...

In the scope of virtual and networked enterprises, we propose a way to integrate quality management into enterprise modeling and allow for quality certification of the whole enterprise. ISO 9001:2000 is presented as a suitable standard for these enterprises quality management systems implementation. On the other hand, quality management system cert...

This paper presents the DAMASCOS (Dynamic Forecast for Master Production Planning with stock and capacity constraints) IST-1999-11850 project1. It is the DAMASCOS objective to design and develop an open platform providing adequate IT modules and mechanisms in order to manage Customised Supply Networks while integrating consumer and its demands. In...

The COBIP UR4003 Project is running under the EC Telematics Application Programme and aims at demonstrating the usage of workflow tools in the management of telework decentralized activities. This paper presents an overview of the COBIP system, and its pilot implementation at TECNOTRON head offices in Lisbon.

In its on-going effort to define, specify and build a telework co-ordination system, the Telework Interest Group at FEUPEngineering Faculty of Porto University

This paper focuses on the telework support to the so-called Small Informationbased Organisations, where all activities involve information processing and transfer, usually among sub-contracted teleworkers. Most of these companies run by managing multiple parallel projects, i. e. one-of-a-kind business processes, each project usually involving remot...

Computer technology for process support using transaction processing has a long tradition, but with mixed results. In a fast changing environment like nowadays, traditional information systems approaches need to be upgraded with workflow management technology. Telework, considered as an innovative work organisation-form for new decentralised organi...

Integrated management and control of shop floor devices in manufacturing, calls for advanced infrastructures built on computers and communication networks. However, the diversity of the operations, interfacing dialogues and communication protocols at the factory floor turns manufacturing integration into an hard task. The work presented here addres...

The Modelling Workbench briefly described in this paper was the result of a research project undertaken at the INESC Porto. It was the outcome of the integration of a SDL (Specification and Description Language) software modelling constructs into Simple++, an object-oriented material flow modelling and simulation tool, as well as its further integr...

Open System Interconnection (OSr) based.

This paper describes the components and functionalities of a Modelling Workbench (MW) to be used within the context of the so-called Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) methodology. The different life-cycle phases of an enterprise integration project and the model building blocks provided are presented and described. A short description...

The work described in this paper was undertaken at the INESC Porto Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit. An overview of PROFIT, a commercial product, and the outcome of the ESPRIT project 5478 Shop Control, is the starting point of this paper. This introduction gives a special emphasis to the PROFIT modelling environment supported by Simple++, a...

This paper describes the results of an international workshop on Enterprise Integration (EI) principles and fundamentals as part of the ICEIMT ‘97 initiative, and specifically reports on the activities of Working group 1, Workshop 4 (WG1WS4). The focus of the work was on the user oriented semantic issues. The outcome of the work was the extension t...

Continuous pressure for competitiveness increase led to the concept of enterprise integration. Within this context a modular approach to enterprise modelling, structuring it into manageable units which cooperate with each other according to identified needs and sharing information on request, is mandatory. The approach presented here encompasses a...

This paper describes a integrated set of tools supporting Prototype Development, Test and Integration of Shop-Floor Management Applications, as well as an illustrative case study. IncreasingRequirements advise that rapid prototyping of shop-floor software applications is fostered by the use of powerful modelling tools. The authors describe the use...

The analysis and design of integrated manufacturing systems, under a techno-organizational approach, is a complex and time consuming process. It involves people from different knowledge areas that must cooperate in order to build a common and complementary understanding of the enterprise’s organization, people and technology. Particularly the SME’s...

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, sob a orientação do Prof. Doutor José Manuel de Araújo Baptista Mendonça

This paper describes results of work developed at INESC within the scope of the Esprit-5478 Shop-Control Project, as well as other related developments. The objective of the Shop-Control project has been to help SME's in reducing their operating expenses and enable them to deliver high quality products on schedule by providing them with an integrat...

This paper presents the information system architecture conceived for the DAMASCOS (Dynamic Forecast for Master Production Planning with stock and capacity constraints) IST-1999-11850 project2. The DAMASCOS project aims at closing the gap between consumer behaviour and producer by improved information flow and demand prediction in the sales and dis...

Since the rising of Computer and Information Technologies, that enterprises and organizations explore them to run their businesses, in order to explore new business opportunities, increase profits and decrease costs. Due several reasons, most of micro, small and medium enterprises located in remote communities, especially those located in developin...

This paper proposes an enterprise modelling tool (EMT) for model-based shop floor control. The EMT enables the design and execution of production models describing shop floor operations and procedural rules. Nowadays, there are several modelling languages supporting the enterprise activities design (organisation, planning, etc.), namely shop floor...

Nowadays, business market forces enterprises to make fast decisions for taking advantages upon opportunities. Many times, the strategic partnerships among enterprises are the only way to provide a fast response to those opportunities. This paper develops in a context in which enterprises have to establish negotiated agreements for successful networ...

Companies are facing unprecedented challenges as improved connectivity opens new markets and news ways of conducting business. There are new possibilities of increasing intimacy with business partners and of co-ordinating business processes with them. As a result, several Business to Business (B2B) infrastructures are being proposed from a wide ran...

This methodology paper puts forth a novel process with which to portray the value network and enterprise asset creation. Real cases which involved field research by the authors are used to present and better illustrate certain concepts. Organizations involve intense human interaction and require novel ways which make evident variations in performan...

Virtual Worlds are designed for sociability, environments where people have interaction with other people. Enterprises have already started exploring this new world as a way to provide a compelling new value proposition to their products and services. This paper makes a proposal for addressing the issue of interoperability between virtual and real-...

As innovation is essential for the competitiveness of enterprises and economic development there is a question which has been raised with some insistence: Do teaching practices make a difference to innovation and entrepreneurship in the work place? Experts were contacted for their views. They say yes, as long as the teaching method is adequate. So,...

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Mestre, na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, sob a orientação do Prof. Doutor José António Ruela Simões Fernandes