A strategy map for the Portuguese air force

Abstract

The history of Mankind is a history of evolution, a history of increasing adaptation by man in relation to his environment. Mankind's history is also 'Organization's history'. As "Mankind's instruments" [1], organizations also need to evolve and adapt, finding new solutions to the emerging challenges and new objectives. Organization's first response to its challenges is strategy. Strategy is a "plan that configures certain company's aspects, which involves processes, places, people and time in order to achieve organizational goals" [2]. It is organization's 'flight plan' to 'navigate' towards the future it seeks, its Vision. Under the body of knowledge and principles of Organizational Engineering - and other theoretical-practical knowledge - this paper proposes a Strategy Map for the Portuguese Air Force, a tool that clarifies strategy and provides the organization with a mean of communication capable of generating motivation and creating focus and alignment, key features to 'move' the organization towards its Vision. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.