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Organizational Knowledge and Innovation: The Cost per Flight Hour in the Portuguese Air Force

Organizational Knowledge and Innovation: The Cost per Flight Hour in the Portuguese Air Force

Carlos Páscoa, José Tribolet
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466675360|ISBN10: 1466675365|EISBN13: 9781466675377
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7536-0.ch026
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Páscoa, Carlos, and José Tribolet. "Organizational Knowledge and Innovation: The Cost per Flight Hour in the Portuguese Air Force." Handbook of Research on Effective Project Management through the Integration of Knowledge and Innovation, edited by George Leal Jamil, et al., IGI Global, 2015, pp. 510-530. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7536-0.ch026

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Páscoa, C. & Tribolet, J. (2015). Organizational Knowledge and Innovation: The Cost per Flight Hour in the Portuguese Air Force. In G. Jamil, S. Lopes, A. Malheiro da Silva, & F. Ribeiro (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Effective Project Management through the Integration of Knowledge and Innovation (pp. 510-530). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7536-0.ch026

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Páscoa, Carlos, and José Tribolet. "Organizational Knowledge and Innovation: The Cost per Flight Hour in the Portuguese Air Force." In Handbook of Research on Effective Project Management through the Integration of Knowledge and Innovation, edited by George Leal Jamil, et al., 510-530. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7536-0.ch026

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Abstract

Having the necessary instruments to steer the organization, allowing constant knowledge informed changes, is extremely important for an organizations, while adapting, in an agile way, to the external environment. Like an aircraft, the organization must have a flight plan and instruments that provide an update of what is happening in real time. As an organization, the Portuguese Air Force needs to make good planning and possessing instruments for assessing, considering innovative manners, the progress made, allowing for a greater self-awareness. Every organization has key elements, essential for its operational success, and vital to plan controlled transformations. The objective of the research described in this chapter is to create a new instrument that provides complete knowledge about an organizational key element, in this case the Organizational Cost per Flight Hour that allows coping with transformation projects, by allowing innovative, knowledge-based, informed decisions.

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