Knowledge management; critical success factor in organizational agility

Changing is one of the most important features of organization in new competitive age. There is almost no organization without changing during 3-6 months or one year. In the other hand business situation requires successful organization to be agile. So organization agility replies variable needs in competition and get some advantages of new opportunities fully and comprehensively. Knowledge, information and individuals will lead to organizational success in future; also different agility models confirm it. Many experts believe agility to include using the information technology and perfect communication and exchange dates toward knowledge management so that organizations which are going to be agile, they should train and gain useful skills with experience and improve to invest for human sources and their education. Therefore it is necessary to manage the knowledge to be agile in organization. The aim of this research is to study and analyze the place of knowledge management in organizational agility based on current empirical studies and findings. Hence, firstly, some definitions of organizational agility, knowledge and its management in the organization; then some of the most important models of organizational agility and the place of knowledge management have been explained. The authors hope that this study could provide the context of organizational agility based on knowledge management in organization more than ever and much more studies and research would come out of it.