An Appraisal of the Success Rate of Implementing Knowledge Management as an Innovation Case Study: a Decision Making Institute in the Field of Defense Research

Taking into account four factors influencing the practice of innovations including individual factors, social factors, innovation features and organizational factors, this research is aimed at assessing the success rate of implementation of knowledge management as an innovation in a defense research decision making institution. This research mainly involves the question of whether there is a significant relationship between the effective factors of implementing innovation and the success of this institution in implementing knowledge management as an innovation. The statistical population of this study includes 15 managers of the institution who mostly apply knowledge management .The results were analyzed through Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The significant hypotheses were then analyzed by regression test. The results indicated that individual factors, innovation features, and social factors with correlation coefficients equal to 0.817, 0.66, and 0.588 respectively, were significantly related to successful implementation of knowledge management. Despite the weak correlation coefficient of 0.404 and lack of a meaningful relationship between the organizational factor and the success of the implementation of knowledge management, overall correlation coefficient of 0.819 generally showed that knowledge management has been successfully implemented in terms of all the related factors.