A built-in self-test technique for high speed analog-to-digital converters

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - PhD grant (SFRH/BD/62568/2009)

A Comunicação Estratégica Integrada nas Organizações

Como elemento final da avaliação do Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação, na vertente de comunicação estratégica, o presente relatório versa sobre a experiência de estágio curricular que decorreu no Instituto Português do Desporto e da Juventude (IPDJ). Este relatório incidirá sobre a experiência prática ao longo de seis meses no Instituto, descrevendo o projeto de trabalho e relatando as atividades e tarefas realizadas. Refletirá igualmente sobre as aprendizagens, condicionantes, e apresentará propostas de melhoria para futuros estágios. Numa base teórica serão abordados os conceitos que fizeram parte do dia-a-dia no departamento de Comunicação, Informação e Relações Internacionais. Esta refletirá sobre a integração nas organizações sem fins lucrativos dos conceitos de marketing e comunicação estratégica ao mesmo tempo que demonstrará a importância da planificação da comunicação para estas organizações e seus projetos.

(Non) - Demand driven servitization: strategic implications for suppliers from incorporating their customers up front

Double Degree. A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Master’s Degree in Management from NOVA – School of Business and Economics and a Masters Degree in International Business, Strategy and Innovation from Maastricht University

Self-initiation expatriation: A focus on Italian and Portuguese students

The purpose of this work project is to analyze the phenomenon of self-initiated expatriation (SIE) through its link to the Protean Career and Career Capital theories, focusing in particular on Italian and Portuguese students attending a Master in the business area. The main research questions are to understand the reasons driving the intention to expatriate, after the conclusion of the academic path, using three main categories (Adventure Motivation, Work Characteristic Motivation and instrumental Motivation) and the intention to repatriate. A sample of Italian and Portuguese students was obtained. Italians show a higher intention to expatriate relative to Portuguese; nevertheless, no other significant differences were found among the two populations, because of the similar cultural background and economic situation. Additionally, several heterogeneities were observed considering other clusters defined by Gender, Teaching Language of the Master and Past International Experiences, across the two nationalities. Furthermore, possible future researches and practical implications were discussed.

Use of multi-sensory marketing techniques and its influence on brand experience in retail and HORECA sector

Double degree. A Work Project presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA- School of Business and Economics and Warsaw School of Economics

Marketing plan: How to benefit from the European population ageing and attract the affluent senior segment to choose Lisbon as a tourism destination?

NSBE - UNL

FPC current marketing strategy

Direct Research Internship Course

Strategic account management: the path to gain customer loyalty

The account management field works closely with the sales team, serving as the customer’s primary point of contact. This project’s purpose was to understand if shifting the account management from brand centric to customer centric, would be the best fit for a Portuguese Pharmaceutical company. This customer centric approach - Strategic Account Management (SAM) - was studied, understanding the implicated trade-offs to the company. The workforce was probed about the project and their comments were analyzed. The conclusion points to an implementation of SAM and proposes the adaptations to follow in order to smooth the change.

A marketing plan for an enter into a healthy category: The launch of Lactalis Nestlé bifidus yogurt

Marketing Directed Research

Toyota RAV4 model year marketing plan for the U.K

NSBE - UNL

A marketing plan for Companhia das Quintas to strengthen its position in the Chinese wine market

Companhia das Quintas, Limited Company wishes to conquer the Chinese market with its wines. For that, it decided to enter in a partnership with a local importer and distributor. This project analyses the macroeconomic factors of the country, the local market and the consumer behavior, using on-site research that included interviews with professionals of the industry, unstructured observation of the consumer and existing statistical data analysis. Finally, the project presents a marketing plan to make this partnership a success.

Starburst accelerator and incubator construction & energy: How to monitor the activities of an incubator and give strategic advice to startups

This work project takes the format of a problem-solving approach suggested by “Impulse Partners”, a French consulting firm. It recommends a way to measure the success of ten startups in the incubators “Starburst” and “Incubator Construction & Energy” and give them strategic guidance. A Balanced Scorecard is elaborated to help incubated startups building up and implementing their strategy. The Scorecard suggests possible initiatives for the startups that are ideally realized with the help of the consulting firm that is steering the incubator. Special attention is drawn to what the startups need to succeed, which typically concerns financing, networking and managing skills.

Zara: Marketing in Fast Fashion: A case-study

Zara was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega Gaona, soon becoming the largest and most successful chain of the Galician group Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil) and a pioneer of the rising fashion category of Fast Fashion. Its innovative vertically-integrated strategies, combined with its emphasis on quality and demand-based offer have shaped the world of fashion and brought forth many questions on its future sustainability and growth. Zara has always relied on its store network for advertising its product offer; allowing its garments to “speak for themselves”. With the continued pressure felt in the industry, management has pressed some concerns about future company growth and creative, innovating solutions must be implemented to guarantee Zara’s future growth. The case-study narrative focuses on these issues and leaves readers with an open question regarding what decision to implement.

How to increase and attract more tourists into Kenya throught experiental marketing

This marketing plan project is a culmination of extensive strategies with the use of experiential marketing to address issues confronting the Kenyan tourism industry in order to have a sustainable tourism sector. Following the terrorist attack carried out by Islamist militants’ belonging to al-Shabaab terrorist organization on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall in September 2013, tourist forecast has gone down sharply with an average of 20% fall in tourists’ arrivals which is likely to have an impact on the tourism sector in Kenya. Even before the deadly attack on Westgate, the most lethal attack by Islamist terrorists in 15 years in Kenya, the government through the Kenya tourist board had announced that in 2013 tourist arrivals were down by 12%, at 495,978, according to an October 2013 report by Bloomberg. Tourism revenues were also down by 7.4%, over FY12/13 (July-June) to reach KES96.24bn, according to a September 2013 report on the local Capital FM website. Beyond 2013, much will depend on how quickly the Kenya tourist board can regain control of the situation. The Kenyan government believes that the Westgate mall attack was a 'one-off' incident, with a low probability of a similar event happening again over the short term period. Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, France and Canada continue to be the key source market however; the Kenya tourist board can make continued growth stronger from new emerging markets in order to increase new arrivals into the country. The marketing plan outlines the objectives to be implemented and provides the implementation strategy, activity plans, monitoring and evaluation plans, financial requirements projections and proposes a new structure of experiential marketing. A number of regional forces are identified that will impact tourism into the country including global, social and economic forces, emerging trends in visitor motivations and behavior, emerging forces in experiential marketing. A major component of the strategy identifies target markets for Kenya to commensurate with the level of resources that will be available for marketing and promotion, in keeping with the forces and trends identified and the nature of the Kenya tourism environment. The agreed upon target market segments are: generic/mass travel, experiential travel, creative travel, adventure seeking travel, senior/extended/long stay travel, and business related travel. The strategy phases the development of the target markets over the years of the marketing strategies in order to yield the best opportunity for results. A core activity in developing a marketing strategy is determining the nature of experiences Kenya offers in tourism. The strategy’s experience development process will continue to develop within the context of the products identified which will be promoted regionally: culture/heritage, nature, community-based. Each county in the country has a significant number of attractions and experiences and the challenge of the country is to bring these together in a creative and innovative way in order to encourage tourists to visit more than one county in Kenya.

A Afiliação enquanto Vetor Estratégico para os Espaços Culturais. O caso dos Grupos dos Amigos dos Museus

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar em que medida os grupos dos amigos dos museus podem ser um vetor estratégico para os museus. O espaço museológico encontra-se em profunda transformação e tem hoje novos desafios. Em muitos casos, os museus descobrem nas associações de afiliação cultural a possibilidade de revitalização. O presente trabalho dirige a sua atenção para os grupos dos amigos dos museus (GAM), pois torna-se essencial potenciar uma estrutura que deve ser considerada um vetor estratégico para o museu – um pivô indispensável para os museus conseguirem dar resposta às expectativas e necessidades do público e dos stakeholders. Os grupos de amigos têm hoje novos desafios: às tarefas tradicionais de angariação de novas peças para os acervos, do restauro de obras ou da angariação de fundos e mecenas, junta-se a difícil tarefa de atrair público, que é cada vez mais diversificado. A afiliação cultural pode assim ter um papel fundamental na democratização do acesso à cultura por vários grupos do tecido social. Para tal, desenvolvemos um enquadramento teórico sobre o papel do associativismo, a fim de perceber qual o seu impacto na vida cultural das pessoas, e a importância da comunicação estratégica podem ter no contexto museológico. Apesar de os museus utilizarem cada vez mais as ferramentas das relações públicas e do marketing, esta adoção revela-se complexa e morosa para a generalidade dos museus. No desenvolvimento da nossa dissertação, compreendemos que há uma nova área de atuação por parte dos grupos de amigos, quer ao nível do networking, quer ao nível da responsabilidade social uma vez que estes podem tornar o museu mais inclusivo, mais integrador e mais influente. Para tal, é fundamental que estes grupos sejam ativados de modo a que possam adaptar-se às mudanças já sentidas pelos museus. Fizemos uma correlação entre a necessidade de atualização e as oportunidades que delas podem surgir. Na última parte da dissertação elaborámos um estudo sobre o Grupo de Amigos do Museu de Arte Antiga, cuja história acompanha a evolução da museologia em Portugal. Este estudo pretende demonstrar a importância que o grupo tem na vida do museu e de que modo a adoção destas novas medidas podem permitir a sustentabilidade do museu e do grupo.