The organizational life-cycle Framework for customization

Ventures progress through different stages, where they prosper until they reach a crisis or pivot point. How an organization addresses these chasms determines if they move on to the next stage, decline, fail, or acquire. Making transitions requires fundamental changes, and business capability must evolve to create and manage systems, controls, and infrastructure. This applies to management practice and a leader's assumptions about the business and the external environment. Life cycles are not always linear, and the transitions to stages can come haphazardly after significant disruptions. 

The stages range from initial development to late maturity. Some stay in a particular stage depending on the entrepreneur's goals, skills & resources. Each stage requires different tools, control systems, teams, and leadership techniques to ensure sustainability. Depending on the lifecycle stage, we provide formal needs assessments and tailor unique plans to tackle existing problems and decrease the probability of future issues. 

Correspondingly, we determine if a company sale, equity offering, SBA-backed business loan, evolutionary change, merger, spinoff, leadership transition, or re-organization is a viable solution. We tackle the design and implementation of operating systems, departmentalization plans, leadership transitions, succession planning, and transaction advisory for companies in the survival, rapid growth, and maturity stages. For development and start-up ventures, we serve as mentors, coaches, and resource specialists for business model refinement, execution of start-up methodologies, and funding strategies for movement along the venture's life-cycle. 

We believe this manageable life-cycle process provides critical insight to unlocking potential in whatever disruption lies ahead. We go into the cave, brave and unafraid, to find and take ownership of the treasures we seek.