Plano estratégico da Dalo-Construções após a privatização: estudo de caso

Abstract

In our business community there is a very significant aspect that I have come across: there is no culture of providing systematised information. The data, in many cases, exist but are not systematised. Systematised data is usually unavailable to potential users. The information that is made available to users, after thousands of steps, is generally incoherent. It is very frustrating to do academic research in an environment where information is between non-existent and unavailable. It is a matter of information culture. Of all the institutions contacted outside Dalo-Constructions, the only one that provided me with totally useful information and without any waiting, was the UTRE (Technical Unit for Restructuring of Companies). I had a terrible experience with bureaucracy at the Ministry of Public Works and Housing: I asked the committee that registers contractors, by letter and questionnaire (12 questions), for a set of information that in principle had to be provided by the respective secretariat. I waited three weeks for the reply to the letter, and then I had to wait another three months for the reply to the questionnaire. Forty per cent of the questionnaire was answered, and even then, the useful answers given served me to form less than one paragraph. I do not want to apologise for the quality of the work in this way, but I believe I had to omit a number of approaches, which would probably have enriched the work, due to lack or inconsistency of the information requested In the selection of information and in the approach methodology, I had the absolute support of my supervisor, Professor of Business Strategies and Policies at the Faculty of Economics, Dr Gil Guiamba. During the whole period of the work he was always available to receive me, even sacrificing periods of rest and leisure. I think I was very happy in the choice of subject and supervisor. Dr. Tomo Psico was very helpful in my decision to start the work. I must also thank all those who gave me their computers to introduce the work, with special mention to Angelo Macie, Clemência Francisco, Fidélis Rosário and the company Focus - 21, Gestão e Desenvolvimento, Ltd, where I could use the equipment at will, at the most crucial moments of the work. I do not want to finish without mentioning that my colleagues at the university, students and teachers, had a crucial role in insistently asking me to finish my degree work. This demand, was for me a crucial motive in moments of great discouragement and prioritization of major issues. I swore I could let them down by the quality of the work, but never by the absence of the work. Thank you very much, friends. In the next incarnation I would like to have as colleagues on the course, at least,- Delminda, Calisto, Anginho, Dr. Macuácua, Moreira, Doho, Deolinda, Isaura, Lucrécia and Belucha. To finish, I leave this work as the best gift I can offer to my parents, Xavier and Laura, for the sacrifices they made, over more than twenty years, to ensure my school education; to my wife Joaquina, for her support; and, most especially, to my son Danilo Faizaí, the only one entitled to all the gifts I have given birth to.