Place of Knowledge Management With Risk Management for Information Technology Projects in the Organization

Abstract

This research focused on the challenges experienced when executing risk management processes in information technology (IT) projects. The lack of knowledge management support for risk management processes has caused many project failures in the past and encountered unanticipated resistance and never met expectation. The purpose of this research is to study how Saudi companies consider knowledge process to support risk analysis and how they use and foster it. The present research will be based on a sample of the data collected from managers and senior managers in selected organizations which represent the manufacturing, information technology (IT), and services. The key contribution is to explore how Saudi companies are integrating knowledge management with risk management for information technology projects which provides the capability to mediate the problem of IT project failures by integrating KM and RM in a single context.