Preliminary Study of Knowledge Management Implementation Strategy for the Automotive Industry in Malaysia

This paper covers a research in the area of knowledge management implementation strategy for the automotive industry. A preliminary study on the knowledge management implementation strategy was conducted in the local organizations in order to obtain an initial overview of the practice of knowledge management in the automotive industry in Malaysia. The data was analyzed by using Microsoft Excel 2010 on a Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium platform. This study reveals that although the organizations had agreed that the five aspects: (i) knowledge assets, (ii) learning people, (iii) fostering and rewarding the learning, (iv) information technology, and (v) commitment of both the top management and the employees - are important to make the knowledge management become successful, but the performance of these organizations regarding these aspects were not really good.