Lições aprendidas em projetos como estratégia de sistematização do conhecimento organizacional: um estudo de caso de uma universidade pública federal

Abstract

Managing organizational knowledge is still something challenging to the current public organizations. Manage it in internal consulting projects can be even more laborious. The public organization in question is a Federal University of southeastern Brazil that in recent years has developed internal consulting projects with its planning sector. This business model was born of the need to respond more effectively to organizational shortcomings that originated, above all, by the rapid expansion that this organization has suffered in recent years due to the REUNI program. They are related, especially, about complex administrative demands such as purchasing large-scale, and studies of administrative restructuring that require further analysis to its correct solution which escapes from the daily operating of the internal departments. However, this model has brought with it, beyond the actual benefits of the internal consultation, a significant increase of organizational knowledge which is now routinely created by this team. Thus, it was realized a strategic gap in determining a tool that was able to systematize this organizational knowledge. Thus, based on the knowledge conversion model (SECI model - socialization, externalization, combination, internalization) of Nonaka and Takeuchi (1997) and assuming that the practice of lessons learned is crucial and critical for the systematization of organizational knowledge in internal consulting projects, came to the formulation of the following research question: how the practice of lessons learned could systematize the organizational knowledge in projects developed by an internal consulting team in a federal institution of higher education? To get the answer to that question, it sought to investigate how internal consulting projects and knowledge management can take advantage of the lessons learned practices for effective management of organizational knowledge within these projects. This is an applied research, its nature is descriptive, it has a qualitative approach and uses the single case study method. As a result it was identified that the application of the lessons learned in knowledge management process is intrinsically linked to the dynamics of the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge that this practice can provide, leading to the creation of organizational knowledge and also that it is an important organizational process asset that can avoid mistakes in future projects and promote the perpetuation of best practices in this team. Therefore, the conclusion is that the lessons learned systematize knowledge management in internal consulting teams at the moment this is a tool that create a dynamic of interactions among the team that permeates the whole spiral of knowledge creation in a upward and continuous movement. Finally, it is expected that this work adds value to the field of knowledge management in projects, notably in the public sector and will help to stimulate future studies on these subjects.