Measurement of knowledge management maturity level within organizations

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for measuring knowledge management maturity level in organizations.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper defines and extracts effective factors and indicators on knowledge management and proposes a schema for prioritizing and specifying the weight of each factor and variable. The paper further surveys and evaluates existing knowledge management models and presents a knowledge management maturity model with defined factors and variables.

Findings

Defining and extracting 8 factors and 42 variables that affect knowledge management and subsequently developing a knowledge management maturity model. The model of this study is practical and helps to determine the maturity position of an organization in knowledge management by defining existing status of in factors and variables, and from the prioritization of factors and variables enabling the organization to optimize its profile.

Research limitations/implications

For increasing generalization of model, future should utilize other organizations in diverse industries.

Originality/value

The base model of this research is CMMI instead of CMM and instead of KPAs we use CSFs and for measuring maturity position of organization using a questionnaire. This research model can be utilized as an alternative model in comparison to existing models.

Citation

Khatibian, N., Hasan gholoi pour, T. and Abedi Jafari, H. (2010), "Measurement of knowledge management maturity level within organizations", Business Strategy Series, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/17515631011013113