Leandro F. Pereira - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Today's world is characterized by a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, presenting companies and business managers with more complex, uncertain, and urgent challenges than ever before. To remain relevant, companies need to be alert, permanently identifying and addressing potential threats and opportunities. Continuous transformation plays a determinant role for companies that thrive and a...Show More
Strategic problem-solving is a relevant skill in business, widely used to identify problems and find inherent solutions to stop, avoid, or mitigate such problems. The literature revolving around problem-solving has been enriched over the years with several theories and approaches. Problem-solving is critical in helping maintain a successful business and looking at problems as objectively and modes...Show More
In recent years, increasing resource consumption worldwide has alarmed experts. This problem contributes to the need for more ecological solutions and processes including the use of renewable energies, which reduces organizations’ environmental impact. To find ways to improve new green solutions and process integration, researchers need to study and measure these innovation effects, especially on ...Show More
Open innovation (OI) is clearly becoming increasingly important to organizations. Studying its impacts has become a challenge as assessing OI possible effects on not only performance but also processes, time, and people is difficult and complex. To move beyond these barriers, this article develops a metacognitive framework that combines cognitive mapping—supported by the strategic options developm...Show More
Digital transformation is becoming more common in an increasingly digital world, which has contributed to significant changes in business processes around the globe. In the banking industry, this approach allows banking institutions to provide improved customer experiences. However, the determinants of successful banking digitalization are still unclear, as are their cause-and-effect relationships...Show More
Startups could foster open innovation by partnering with other startups as external sources of innovation. The ever-growing network of diverse software startups is an opportunity for these startups to gain access to significant knowledge and expertise from the broader network. This peer partnering allows them to bridge gaps in their competencies that hinder their abilities to gain traction. The co...Show More
This research work's core objective is to categorise and understand the barriers to strategic implementation, focusing, then, through an inquiry, in the most voted of them, to make a deeper analysis on one of the variables. To that end, this document begins with a literature review and begins to identify the importance that strategic communication has in the process of propagating a given individu...Show More
The increasing competitiveness of market search related with information needs led to several companies to invest in new forms of decision making and models applied to scientific methods to position them as market leaders and to extract added value. This study was conducted with the propose of developing a market tool to allow a deeper and more pragmatic analysis to clients value and clients life ...Show More
This study aims to verify the perception of Business Process Management (BPM), namely benefits, maturity, budget in the company and qualitative factors that make it difficult to measure and to understand the relevance of Return of Investment (ROI). It's also intended to create a conceptual model that makes it possible to evaluate the Valorisation of BPM within an organization. The results indicate...Show More
Management consulting as a service has become part of almost every company’s daily business. The growth is being exponential, even with all the non-consensual issues and controversies in the industry. However, the market is increasingly competitive, with new competitors coming from everywhere. At the same time, the world is changing at a speed never seen before, and the challenges are several: aut...Show More
In a world characterized by intense competition, outsourcing has infiltrated the management world in a major way. Outsourcing services are becoming an increasingly important source to companies focus on their core competencies, reduce costs, and increase efficiency in several organizational functions. Even though outsourcing of business activities has become a prevalent practice amongst organisati...Show More
As the world changes, financial sector changes with it, and alternative finance emerge. Crowdfunding is part of this evolution and its use is becoming more widespread day by day. As more entrepreneurs and organizations seek crowdfunding to fund their ventures, and to solve the most important obstacle to achieve a successful crowdfunding campaign, which is not the information available about how to...Show More
This paper intends to provide a deeper understanding about the software production cost in the banking sector through a benchmarking analysis. Furthermore, the paper provides a set of recommendations to assist organizations become more efficient, productive and more competitive. This analysis was performed based on a representative sample in the Portuguese market based on a sample of 21 projects. ...Show More
This research paper presents a model to assist business managers and decision-makers to make better decision of investment projects. This model provides a methodology and principles to assist organizations estimating and evaluating their projects benefits to apply in a Business Case, namely for projects with economic and social impacts. This model may be applied by any organizations (private secto...Show More
In a world characterised by distorted information, Management Consulting is one of the fastest growing activities that has been questioned since its first appearance. Doubts have been floating around the limits of the industry, the role and utility of its practitioners and the consequent implicit value-added to the clients' firms. As such the main objective of this research is to investigate the b...Show More
Knowledge Transfer in Project-based Organizations has been recognized as productivity and economic growth promoters that are currently not properly managed. Therefore, it is critical to investigate the importance of knowledge regarding its acquisition, use and transfer across all departments of an organization. The main objective of this work was to evaluate how modern organizations from different...Show More
Proximity off-shoring (near-shoring) on the Information Technology sector has been a common practice over the past 2 decades, mainly for software development functions. But the benefits harvested from the delivery of professional services on a near-shore model can be replicated to other functions from a business transformation programme, such as competence and training management projects, improvi...Show More