designing a knowledge management excellence model based on interpretive structural modeling

despite the development of appropriate academic and experiential background knowledge management and its manifestation as a competitive advantage, many organizations have failed in its effective utilization. among the reasons for this failure are some deficiencies in terms of methodology in inappropriate recognition and translation of km dimensions and lack of systematic approach in establishment of causal relationships among km factors. this article attempts to design an organizational knowledge management excellence model. to design an organizational knowledge management excellence model based on library researches, interviews with experts and interpretive-structural modeling (ism) was used in order to identify and determine the relationships between the factors of km excellence. accordingly, 9 key criteria of km excellence as well as 29 sub-criteria were extracted and the relationships and sequence of factors were defined and developed in 5 levels for designing an organizational km excellence model. finally, the concepts were applied in defense organizations to illustrate the proposed methodology.