International Journal of Information Technology Convergence and Services (IJITCS) Vol.5, No.6, December 2015 DOI:10.5121/ijitcs.2015.5602 11           Sepideh Shahidi, Neda Abdolvand and Saeedeh Rajaee Harandi Department of Management, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran ABSTRACT The growing importance of business analytics and its increasing influence on the competitive advantage of organizations leads to the necessity of knowledge management systems, which complex and needs organizational readiness that has been the subject of earlier research. This study aims to examine whether the affective factors on the assessment of the readiness for implementation of the knowledge management system in all organizations are identical. Hence, first by a comprehensive study of literature, readiness factors of the knowledge management system implementation including six factors of organizational culture, individuals, information technology infrastructure, knowledge process, senior management commitment, and strategy were extracted and have been tested in three different organizations of IT services, educational and commerce. Based on the founding, different factors affect various organizations and using a general model should not be advised. KEYWORDS Organizational readiness, knowledge management implementation, IT infrastructure, knowledge process 1. INTRODUCTION Knowledge management (KM) is a structured process of targeting, identifying, acquiring, developing, distributing, applying, measuring, and evaluating the organization’s knowledge [2][33][40]. The subjective, portable, latency, self-reinforcement, degradation, and self-motive features of knowledge distinct it from other assets [7]; further, designing and organizing the knowledge make it possible to provide a platform for competition, sustainable development [4] and economic competitive advantages [26]. KM emphasizes on three main areas of individual, structure, and technology and tries to balance threefold working area with production, appropriate use of knowledge resources, and organizational goals [2][33]. The KM implementation includes the extensive domain and different aspects. Hence, without a suitable infrastructure and organizational readiness, the successful implementation of KM is impossible. Moreover, organizational readiness for KM implementation includes the organizational capability to adopt and use of its advantages. The vast majority of studies on organizational readiness has examined different effective factors; furthermore, research that focused on information technology (IT) and culture showed different results in different organizations. For example, the study of El-Mekawy & Rusu on the strategic alignment between two branches of the multinational organization in Sweden and Egypt showed different results [10].