The innovation maturity model based on customer knowledge: A meta-synthesis

Nowadays, one of the reasons for the failure of companies is the low level of their innovation in them. The reason of this is, firstly, lack of maturity in the field of innovation and, secondly, lack of attention to the knowledge of customers. Considering that one of the main sources of innovation in organizations is the exploitation of customer knowledge, however, limited research has been done on the ability to innovate based on customer knowledge. The main objective of this research is identify the components of customer knowledge based on innovation and provide them in the form of levels of capabilities maturity model.All researches on the innovation maturity model and customer knowledge were investigated by meta-synthesis method and 16 articles were selected. Based on the content analysis of the related articles, a set of dimensions and components innovation capability based on customer knowledge was identified and the innovation capability maturity model based on customer knowledge consist of 33 codes, 13 concepts and 5 main categories in five levels of maturity was presented.