A Survey on Success Factors of Knowledge Management within Organizations
Subject Areas : Knowledge Management
Tahmoress
Hasangholi pour
1
(Tehran University)
Hasan
Aubedi jafari
2
Neda
Khatibian
3
Keywords: Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Critical Success Factors (CSFs),
Abstract :
Nowadays, knowledge introduced as a valuable and strategic resource and also is an asset and is the most important variable for growing organizations and enterprises in this era. Knowledge management introduced as an important action for organizations move into international competition and face with new business challenges. Therefore, aiming usage of knowledge as a strategic and competitive advantage, and so organizing knowledge management development steps in organizations requires specification of effective factors on organizations decisions in usage and optimizing knowledge management. Thus studying effective factors on knowledge management success is necessary. Identifying these factors can help organizations to requirements assessment, designing, programming, executing and implementing knowledge management projects and evaluating organization maturity level in knowledge management. This paper reviews and identifies factors and variables that affect on knowledge management successfulness in organizations, and at last identify and represent key factors and variables that affect on success of knowledge management projects. This factors that categorized with an attention to literature, showing essential and important scopes that require for successful implementation of knowledge management. Organizations can access to a stable competitive and successful advantage with specifying and emphasizing this factors and right using from their knowledge resources.