Refinement of an Instrument to Assess Readiness for Knowledge Management

Abstract

Academics and practitioners have described knowledge as a primary source for competitive advantage for organizations; however, many attempts at instituting knowledge management programs to increase organizational competitiveness do not succeed. Instituting knowledge management programs generally requires organizations to make significant changes and the concept of readiness has long been believed to be an important precondition for successful organizational change. By linking previous research in enablers for knowledge management and organizational change, it is possible to adapt an established organizational change readiness instrument to measure readiness for knowledge management. This study culminates in the development and field-testing of the resultant knowledge management readiness instrument, filling in an important gap in contemporary literature.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA467548

Entities

People

  • Landon C. Bailey

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Databases
  • Human Resources
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lessons Learned
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Personnel
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Surveys

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).