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Presentation of Knowledge Management Framework for Project-Based Organizations

Ghamsari Esfahani, Narges | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 45349 (01)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Industrial Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Shadrokh, Shahram
  7. Abstract:
  8. Knowledge is an organization asset that if used in the direction of organization’s strategic mission, can provide values for the organization. Therefore, many organizations such as NASA, Siemens; and Microsoft have invested in order to improve their knowledge management practices. Many organizations have not been successful in implementing appropriate knowledge management and incurred by huge expenses, while others can use and improve their locations among their competitors in the business. The reason behind many of these organizations were ignoring factor(s) that have direct undeniable effect on result from organization’s knowledge management.
    The framework of knowledge management is a plan that describes different elements of knowledge management system and relations between them. If an organization develop knowledge management methodologies based on a detailed framework, it can have a better understanding of the processes and increase possibility of success for the system.
    Until today, many different frameworks of knowledge management have been designed for organization. Each of these frameworks focuses on specific characteristic of specific types of organizations. However, not such a framework has been proposed for organizations that are project-based ones. In this thesis, a framework of knowledge management has been designed for project-based organizations and it was evaluated by surveying from 20 experts in the field of project management and knowledge management. The results show that the framework satisfies four out of five factors important for developing a framework
  9. Keywords:
  10. Knowledge Management ; Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) ; Project Based Organization ; Knowledge Management Framework

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