IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Knowledge becomes a new strategic resource that often endangers an individual and his irretrievability. Implementation of knowledge management methods in the organisation meets often with braking influence of corporate culture and firm philosophy. Dissemination of knowledge management leads to the loss of firm competitiveness at the market by long innovation periods, production of uncompetitive products and in the end it leads to the loss of customer base and departure from company of key employees. The implementation of knowledge management is financially challenging and time-consuming matter with participation of specialists from various spheres. Effectiveness of the implementation of knowledge management assures systematic approach which determines sequence and contents of its certain phases. The paper deals with the state of knowledge management of organizations in Slovak republic, what knowledge organizations in these days consider as critical, what contributions in knowledge management are most needed.