Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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March 2020. Vol.98. No 06
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THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
PROCESSES ON BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
AS MEDIATED BY IT AGILITY
HISHAM O. MBAIDIN
1
, SATTAM ALLAHAWIAH
2
, SAMIAHAL TARAWNEH
3
, NANCY AL-
QATAWNEH
4
, NOUR AL - QATAWNEH
4, 5
Management Information Systems, School of Business, Mutah University, Jordan
Management Information Systems, Al- Balqa' Applied University, Jordan,
1
h_mobaideen@yahoo.com,
2
s.allahawiah@bau.edu.jo oday_tar@mutah.edu.jo ,
3
nancyabdqta@gmail.com,
4
nour.qatawneh@brunel.ac.uk,
ABSTRACT:
This study aims to investigate the impact of knowledge management processes (KMPs) on business
transformation (BT) as mediated by IT agility. The population of the study is the lecturers and employees
of Mutah University with a total of 305 participants. A questionnaire is adopted to conduct the study then
the data is analyzed according toSPSS modeling technique in order to determine what the level of the
existing relationship between KMPs and BT as mediated by IT agility. Finally, the study concludes with
main findings and recommendations are related to confirming the two main hypotheses of the research that
are related to testing if there are relationships between the KMPs (represented by four surrogate measures,
namely, knowledge creation, knowledge storage, knowledge sharing and knowledge application) and BT,
as well as if the KMPs is related to the BT as mediated by IT agility.
KEYWORDS -Knowledge Management, Mutah University, Business Transformation, Technology, IT
Agility, SPSS Analysis.
1. INTRODUCTION:
The Knowledge Management (KM)
phenomenon has a strategic importance in
developing unique capacities of organization and
providing them with sustainable competitive
advantage [1]. KMPsplays a potential role in
contributing to the success of organizations in
general and educational institutes in particular.
KM also assists in achieving organizational goals
by allowing know-how and expertise to be easily
shared and accessed [2] as well as promoting the
use of available sources of information, skills
and experience [3].
Several researchers have pointed to
three main processes of KM, acquisition, sharing
and application [4]–[5]–[6]–[7]. The first process
in most KM models is knowledge acquisition
through which the organization obtains
knowledge from internal and external sources
[8].
The second process is knowledge
sharing, which is related to the transformation or
throughput phase including disseminating,
storing, codifying, and documenting knowledge
[9]. The third process is knowledge application,
which is considered as the output aspect of KM.it
is defined as “the business processes through
which effective storage and retrieval mechanisms
enable a firm to access knowledge
easily”.[10]Since the operations’ function plays a
strategic role in building and sustaining
competitiveness, manufacturing companies need
to formulate operations strategies in a way that
helps to implement their own corporate
competitive strategies. Manufacturing
competitive priorities are the ways in which an
organization has the opportunity not only to
compete in the marketplace, but also to choose
the type of markets [11].As well as, BT is a
changing management strategy, which has the
aim to align People, Process and Technology
initiatives of a company more closely with its
business strategy and vision. In turn, this helps to
support and innovate new business strategies.
For any transformation of a business or business
processes, innovation is one of the key drivers.
BT is achieved by one or more of: realigning the
way staff work, how the organizations structured,
the core product or service portfolio of the