The world is changing, you better believe it and get on the bandwagon.

The next big change in the corporate world is going to be KNOWLEDGE related. This is not the kind of knowledge that you only use, rather, it comes in a variety of flavours and textures. There is the "soft" and the "hard".

You will have to deal with: knowledge capture, knowledge capital, knowledge workers, knowledge economy, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, knowledge innovation, knowledge enablement, and me.

Interested? Read on.

If you're in the software industry you would understand that what we do, day in and day out, is deal with knowledge. We develop software using knowledge. We license our software to companies wanting to use it. We charge for our knowledge as a service. Does this sound familiar to you?

To succeed in a competative market, software companies have to build and leverage this knowledge and the way to do it is by being innovative and creative. They will have to convert into knowldge specialists organizations with sharp cuts in middle management.

The problem that most organizations have when faced with change is that most individuals become defensive and mistakes are repeated. We all know the issue but no one wants to take responsibility to resolve it. My opinion is to be honest and take a lead.

Before I leave you to ponder, here are a few links of interest on this topic:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management
• http://www.twiki.org/