there are lots of papers - I follow Vittal S. Anantatmula's work on the subject.

What motivation leads organizations to undertake a knowledge management effort is of the highest importance. But, many organizations never clarify why, exactly, they want to manage knowledge. And yet, how, what, when, where, and who follow why. The "why" of knowledge management might be to:

• Achieve shorter product (or service) development cycles;
• Boost internal and external network connectivity;
• Harness intellectual capital;
• Increase knowledge content in the development and provision of products and services;
• Leverage the expertise of people across the organization;
• Manage business environments so staff can access insights that are appropriate to their work;
• Promote creativity, innovation, and organizational learning; and/or
• Solve intractable problems.

The distinct motivations behind knowledge management efforts are not mutually exclusive and organizations are likely to launch several simultaneously. But, each initiative rests on or relates to specific capacities and skills, resources, and systems. From requisite ecological, organizational, and/or technocentric perspectives, once the motives impelling knowledge management initiatives have been made clear, the "how"—thence the what, when, where, and who—of knowledge management can be brought to bear on sundry areas of activity. (The Why and How of Knowledge Management: Some Applications in Teaching and Learning, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294886194_The_Why_and_How_of_Knowledge_Management_Some_Applications_in_Teaching_and_Learning, expands on this.)

Conference Paper The Why and How of Knowledge Management: Some Applications i...

Dear Hanan,

Look at my attempt to measure innovation capability of organizations. From my perspective, innovation capability is very close to Knowledge management of an organization.

Article Company Innovative Leadership Model

Article Measuring the Bulgarian IT Sector Innovations Capabilities T...

Knowledge creation through research and transfer of tacit knowledge held by individuals through institutional knowledge transfer mechanism, are important objectives of knowledge management.

What is the most important KM Objective to organizations?

One of the important objectives of Knowledge Management in organizations is to continuously extract, capture, store & improve the knowledge so that it can be used by all the business units / users to improve the organizational performance.

You might be interested in the attached paper.

In my experience, leadership responds most positively to KM initiatives that hold the promise of generating MORE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES leading to INCREASED REVENUE. Without leadership buy-in and political will any KM objectives that are established are unlikely to be sustainable. The cost-benefit analysis must demonstrate that the investment in the KM initiative is substantially outweighed by the return that it expects to achieve. Thus, initially targeting CLIENT-FACING OBJECTIVES is likely to get the most support from your key influencers in the organisation.

Dear Hanan

Several other objective were given in,

Information Management Model for Intellectual Capital of HEIs in Oman: Theoretical Quantitative Approach and Practical Results. J. of Information and Knowledge Management, 2018, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp.1-38. (World Scientific).

Regards,

Zuhair

KM is very crucial for nowadays SD objectives related with performance. Please refer to the following article:

Article The role of employee knowledge and behavior towards sustaina...