Organization evolution © ℠ involves:

1. the organization moving through the "stages" of development and in time.
   
   Consider the entire life stories of H-P, Apple, IBM, GE or any major healthy organization that has made the successful transition from a start-up through several identity crises and are able to participate in a world society on an equal footing plus they are organized for coping with whatever the future may hold:

   See organization histories or
   
   Examples from the news to explore these ideas in greater depth.

   
   Time spans

2. the activities and work performed to produce an organization's contribution now and in the futureS. A part of this work involves the process of getting to appropriate concepts and then to daily work—genuine executive learning and development;

3. society and the economy developing and moving in time—moving toward unimaginable futures.

Try superimposing:

1. From Capitalism to Knowledge Society*

2. Knowledge: Its Economics and Productivity*

3. The Educated Person*

4. From Analysis to Perception, The New World View**

* from Peter Drucker's: Post-Capitalist Society
** and his The New Realities

on my

1. knowledge system view

2. changing social and economic picture diagram

3. economic structure diagram
   

Organization evolution is not spontaneous or natural—just the opposite. See "Managing Growth" in Peter Drucker's Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Also see story titles in my TLN Weblog, current system status (Is this OK?), life lines and mental patterns. What are the consequences?

Why great companies fail

The following appeared in a November 2003 Internet posting:

Motorola spinning off semiconductor business
"Baffling. Does anyone but me find Motorola's announcement that it will spin off its semiconductor business a bit peculiar? How does a company manage to create and pioneer early markets, dominate, and then give up on the market? I'm talking about radios, TVs, and microprocessors, including RISC chips. When will the company bail on the cell-phone market it largely created? This is a weird business model. My advice to Motorola is to change the name to Motorola Market Development Company. It would make more sense."

Related

1. Startup planning

2. Entrepreneurship and Innovation (article and book outline)

3. The Management Revolution and What is management? and Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (FIND "Top Management: Tasks, Organization, Strategies")

4. Leadership (what needs doing?)

5. The Winning Performance (midsize growth companies)

6. Managing the small business (contrast the key radar elements with those on Chief TLN Officer page)

7. People decisions (determine the performance capacity of the organization)

8. Toward new organizations
   Increasingly, companies, even quite small ones, have to be run as “transnational” businesses. Their market may still be local or regional, but their competition is global. Their strategy also has to be global, in respect to technology and finance, products and markets, information and people. This is also true for organizations other than businesses.

9. PIMS outline and PIMS pdf

10. Warren Buffett's views

Small business isn't exempt from organization evolution. They are connected through the economy and the competitive offerings of others. They are vulnerable to being squeezed out.

Organization evolution introduction (only after foundation building)