And therein lies the organizations biggest problem. Organizations fail to recognize the asset that people are. People unlike computers, raw materials, or the like, have the ability to reason and to learn. 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.