There is considered the potential of the use of the information about the initial knowledge level of older year students and the audience of further training courses with the aim to improve the interactive character of education. There are suggested the testing methods to find out the initial level of knowledge in the disciplines that should be studied. There are revealed such effects of the suggested approach as the objective assessment of the initial knowledge level, problematic character of the learning material, discussion character of lessons, the possibility of assessment of knowledge increase at the final examination.

There is analyzed such an important component of reformation of state service and development of commercial enterprises as the change of their organizational culture. On the basis of the world experience there is proved the appropriateness of this approach, suggested the organizational and methodological mechanisms of cultural modernization, that are recommended to use adapted to the Russian conditions.