Knowledge management, with the emphasis on the key success factors and the cycle of active knowledge management system

Abstract

We live in a world that is under fast and inevitable changes due to globalization. In such a world, the economy is moving toward the knowledge-based economy and it has faced the today's considerations of the countries to challenges which are because of communication and information technology. Some of the organizations believe that with a complete focus on individuals, technology and arts we can manage the knowledge. The most important variable of comprehensive growth of organizations and economical agencies in the present time is the knowledge. The organizations are seeking the perfect and on-time revenue of their knowledge sources and the surrounding environment. Such event has developed a new concept as the knowledge management. Knowledge management is a unified event to identifying, acquiring and extracting, marketing, sharing and creating all sources of the organization knowledge so that it helps the organization to get its organizational purposes. The goal of knowledge management is to create a relationship between experts and experienced people of the organization and the individuals that need a specific knowledge. Making such a relationship is simplified by the help of processes and tools of knowledge management. The success in the field of knowledge management needs a new working environment in which the knowledge and experience can be divided easily. Centralization of knowledge management is on the improvement of organization ability. Nowadays, most of the experts believe that the organizations should follow the effective methods to distribute the organizational knowledge among different levels of human forces throughout the organization so that they could record, register and convey the knowledge of individuals in the organization by the help of knowledge management. The library method was has been used in this method and the topics of knowledge, knowledge management, the basis of knowledge management, the benefits of knowledge management, knowledge management cycle, the effective individuals in success of knowledge management and the factors involving the success of knowledge management have been taken into consideration. The purpose of this study is the significance and considering the knowledge management and a feeling of its vacancy in the organizations. © 2013 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.