Knowledge Management Barriers in Higher Education: Strategic Issues at Private University

摘要

This study proposes The Knowledge Management Barriers for private universities, data collected in Palembang through an online questionnaire distributed to 131 of ABC University lecturers. The results showed that there were four factors with the same components extracted by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with each factor consisting of 9, 4, 4 and 5 factors with similar components. These factors are further classified based on similarity of components, namely: Organizational, Technology, Infrastructure, and Environment Barriers. These barrier factors can be used as a reference for private universities in determining KM strategy to avoid the failure of KM implementation in private universities.