I can very well understand the gravity of the situation. Though there is a specific domain which I am pursuing but the key contribution I derived from the organization where I am working at present. I am pursuing my Ph.D. in Human resources and hence I narrowed down a topic pertaining to the issue which is causing great trouble in my organization i.e. “Ascertaining the parameters which determines the success of implementing the knowledge management system in an organization”. Focusing on this topic I tried to search for other organization who implemented K.M. in their organization so that I can increase my sample size as well.

Topic selection also became a pain for me because my supervisor was not readily available to guide me. So I took help of a consultant who made my job easy on this part. You can find some of them on google.

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