Change in the Portuguese Air Force

Abstract

With the increase of organization’s development that have been happening in the latest years, the traditional way in which organizations were seen, have been changed. Factors like markets uncertainty and the offer increase forced the actual companies to react quickly to these disturbing factors. The development of management theories connected with the development of Information Technology (IT) has resulted in news methods and tools that assist the decision making leaders by supplying access to the correct information in the right time. With this purpose, appears in the Portuguese Air Force the need to initiate a process of transformation. This study analyzes if that the process of transformation in Portuguese Air Force has brought improvements to the organization. This transformation process was initiated by two Chief-of-Staff Directives. Having in mind that the main goal of these changes is to align the Organization Information Systems with its strategic objectives, it becomes important to realize what involves this full process by identifying the adjacent actions to it. While monitoring this change, it´s important to consider aspects involving a successful transformation, for example, we intend to know the way transformation was approached by the Portuguese Air Force, that is, if the necessary foundations were created to sustain the desired change; identify the gains that the process brought to the organization and identify aspects that may have held back the implementation of this change.