This is an asset. Change alters the way an establishment does business on a daily basis. People are the agents of change. They are the ones that need to be inventoried. Not the dry goods.
Organizations spend millions of dollars training employees.
And with them go all those training dollars. In his book The Fifth Discipline, he describes five disciplines necessary to produce such a learning organization. These are personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning. Systems thinking ties the group together to form a complex model for handling business. Senge describes today's organizations as prototypes of the coming learning organizations.