Author(s): Abdulsattar Ibrahim Daham
The objective of this work is to examine the compatibility between knowledge management strategies and the nature of knowledge required by the business strategy. By using questionnaire oriented to sample of managers and experts in three organizations, we chose two types of the nature of knowledge required (existing knowledge and new knowledge) and two types of knowledge management strategy (codification and personalization). To analyze the data of this research and examine its hypothesis, we utilized t-test to test the differences between means of paired variables: (existing knowledge–codification strategy), (new knowledge–personalization strategy), mixed knowledge–mixed strategy). The findings of this research indicate that almost in all organizations studied, when the required knowledge is the existing knowledge, the strategy chosen is the codification strategy and when the required knowledge is the new knowledge, the strategy chosen is the personalization strategy and finally when the required knowledge is a mixed knowledge, the strategy chosen is a mixed strategy.