BENEFITS ARISING FROM THE APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT IN ORGANISATIONS

Knowledge management now interweaves all managerial activities within an organisation and its introduction, as well as the introduction of knowledge continuity management, is always associated with certain benefits. The purpose of the contribution is to identify the benefits that the application of knowledge continuity management brings to organisations. The research has been concentrated on two types of benefits, i.e. on benefits having a relationship to knowledge management and knowledge continuity management as such and benefits directly linked to basic business goals of organisations. The contribution is processed on the basis of the analysis of secondary resources and the evaluation of outcomes of the quantitative survey. One of the conclusions of the contribution is that organisations deliberately applying knowledge continuity management are likely to see benefits not only in the area of knowledge utilization, but consequently also in the increase of the overall performance of the entire organisation