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connection points with the USAF’s weighted guidelines online tool and others, but those applications are beyond the scope of this research and its recommendations.
Caution Against Wide-Sweeping Changes in Policy As a final recommendation, we recommend constraining future policy regarding the CSO solicitation technique to only that necessary to execute legal contracts and agreements. As reflected in this research, innovation requires flexibility and freedom to engage in continuous improvements and limit imitation. To maintain the flexibility of CSOs, future policy should avoid unnecessary restrictions in the CSO process. Rather than policy that constrains or restricts the CSO solicitation process, the government should instead invest in its KM environment and bolster the government workforce’s knowledge and understanding of CSOs to facilitate further innovation in the procurement process. Doing so will equip the DoD workforce with the “best weapons with which to compete … knowledge and service” (p. 132) as discussed by Johannessen et al. (1999) and this research. This will lead to increased learning capacity of the DoD’s knowledge workers and secure a competitive advantage of defense superiority. The CSO process and this recommendation, taken collectively with our other recommendations, will facilitate the DoD securing this competitive advantage through KM.
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