Fernando Paulo Belfo is a professor at Politecnical Institute of Coimbra, Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Coimbra - Coimbra Business School, Portugal for more than 30 years, where he has lecture and been responsible for several disciplines, especially in the area of Information Systems. He is also professionally experienced in the areas of information and communication technology and in the area of management, with participation in projects at several firms of different sizes, from which underlines his participation in the specification, planning, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of management information systems of the paper mill of Soporcel (Portucel - currently called "The Navigator Company"), headquartered at Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He received the Bachelor degree in electrotechnical engineering, as informatics specialist, from the Technology and Science Faculty, Coimbra University, Portugal. He holds a master degree in economics from the Faculty of Economy of the University of Coimbra, Portugal and he has a Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems and Technology from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. He is also researcher at Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of Polytechnic of Porto (CEOS.PP), accredited by FCT in the area of Digital Services - Social, Cultural, Economic or Public Administration. His main research interests are the alignment between business and information technology, enterprise resource planning (ERP), data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), knowledge management, business process management (BPM), IT project management, people & human factors in IT and technology innovation. On these research themes, he has made several dozen publications, including book chapters, journal articles and papers presented at national and international conferences.