Of all the goods available to them, the most precious in today's developed business world is knowledge, ie intellectual capital. Organizational knowledge and potentials form the basis of intellectual capital. It can be generally stated that the knowledge that people possess the derivation of education and that the rise of the same is correlated with the poverty of the country.These knowledge can be measured and counted as part of the overall value of the organization. Especially in Croatian conditions, this knowledge often stagnates or is lost due to inadequate treatment in the sense of further learning and enhancement of competence.As a rule, they lose when leaving an individual out of the organizational system due to insufficient collaboration and documentation. The transition between developed countries and parts of developing countries into the "knowledge economy" has resulted in increased awareness of knowledge as a key factor in the growth of the national economy and the fight against poverty. Education is an indispensable part of the strategy of successful countries, just like the global business systems, as well as state institutions of developed countries. Thus, the strategic needs of organizations for creating and re-creating new knowledge reach synergies through information processing with the help of education which is one of the cornerstones of a country's competitiveness and the eliminator of poverty. Intellectual capital is the knowledge of employees, which they transform into market value. The Croatian educational system still needs to be improved to make it more competitive, in line with, for example, the Finnisheducation system, thus raising the overall competitiveness of Croatia and reducing poverty.