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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) government aims to reduce fiscal deficit by improving efficiency, reducing costs, as well as its subsidies. This often calls for the creation, use and exploitation of new knowledge. Therefore, knowledge assets must be properly managed to provide an environment for well-informed decisions. The aim of this chapter is to investigate the critical success factors (CSFs) for effective implementation of Knowledge Management (KM) strategies in the KSA public sector organisations. Semi-structured interviews with 42 public sector directors and managers were conducted. Nine key CSFs were revealed. The association between the identified factors is established by employing an interpretive structural modelling methodology. The Matrix of Cross-Impact Multiplications Applied to Classification analysis is carried out for identifying the factors having high influential power. The results indicated that 'leadership' and 'organisational culture' are the most significant critical success factors having highest driving power. The chapter concludes that leadership plays a key role in implementing KM strategies in the KSA. Leadership is about preparing organisation with a KM vision and values. The findings of this research provide valuable insight and guidance which will help the public sector decision makers to accomplish KM strategies effectively.

A great importance had been given to sustainable development in the past decades, especially within the oil and gas industry, companies around the world are expanding their strategies in order to follow the current trend and information and Communication Technology are considered as a key factor for achieving sustainable development. That along with the constant technological development the oil and gas sector is experiencing had forced the industry to adapt smart solutions in order to meet the market's changing demand and improve the efficiency of its operations. With the goal of studying examples of smart solutions within the oil and gas industry from a general perspective, a literature review was conducted and the main characteristics and attributes of each solution had been exploited. Smart solutions gained a great appreciation in the industry, but their application is still modest, and the industry did not benefit from it in a meaningful way and has little impact on companies' business model.

With the increasing importance given currently to sustainable development, countries around the world are shifting their focus and efforts to changing the previous unsustainable growth framework. Accordingly, Qatar has decided to introduce a sustainability plan to ensure prosperity through its national vision and strategy plans. In this chapter, a case example has been presented on the application of a systematic literature review according to the PICO model in built environment research based on a study of the efficiency of policies and tactics implemented by the Qatari Government, in its energy sector, pertaining to sustainability strategies. An initial literature search resulted in the identification of 1990 resources within five different databases, of which 82 met the pre-set inclusion and exclusion criteria, including date, geographic location, language, type of publications, participants, and design of studies. The findings showed that six key sustainability initiatives were noteworthy in the Qatar energy sector, which were: health and safety, environment, climate change and energy, economic performance, society, and workforce. The lack of knowledge of the scope of sustainability is a huge challenge for the organisations in the energy sector. The conclusion from this chapter was that the Qatari sustainable development policies still need great efforts to confront their shortcomings, as more holistic policies and more integrated and comprehensive strategies are required.AAM: A systematic literature review evaluating sustainable energy growth in Qatar using the PICO model