A business model for the Portuguese Air Force

Abstract

Organizations not only play an increasingly active role in today's society but also begin to address the everyday necessities and concerns of individuals. To achieve competitive advantage, it is becoming more and more necessary that organizations perform efficiently in order to survive. As organizations can be defined as a group of people who work together to obtain one or more common results, it is imperative that all its constituents represent themselves as part of the whole. Important issues such as: who is the organization, what it does, for whom it operates and what its core values are can be answered using the business model. It is also important to characterize, in this context, the business model and artifacts like the Business Motivation Model which help to specify the enterprise business architecture and can be complementary. This paper, using business model concepts as a basis, proposes a business model for the Portuguese Air Force that answers to the previous questions and can be instantied to any particular area, like one of the Air Force Air Units. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.