Assessing The Organizational Readiness For Implementing Knowledge Management In Organizations

Abstract

The growing importance of business analytics and its increasing influence on the competitive advantage of organizations leads to the necessity of knowledge management systems, which complex and needs organizational readiness that has been the subject of earlier research. This study aims to examine whether the affective factors on the assessment of the readiness for implementation of the knowledge management system in all organizations are identical. Hence, first by a comprehensive study of literature, readiness factors of the knowledge management system implementation including six factors of organizational culture, individuals, information technology infrastructure, knowledge process, senior management commitment, and strategy were extracted and have been tested in three different organizations of IT services, educational and commerce. Based on the founding, different factors affect various organizations and using a general model should not be advised.