Corporate Life Cycle

It's helpful to realize where your business stands in its life cycle in order to affect change where needed. So, we've included the following phases:

• Courtship - The initial development of the business model
• Infancy - After launch and the beginning of activity 
• Go-go - Energetic early growth and sometimes chaos 
• Adolescence - Still developing but more established and defined 
• Prime - At its healthiest and most competitive, popular, and profitable 
• Stability - Still effective and profitable, but beginning to lose its leading edge - vulnerable 
• Aristocracy - Strong because of market presence and successes, but slow and losing market share to competitors, new technologies, trends, etc. 
• Recrimination - Doubts, problems, threats, and internal issues overshadow its original purposes 
• Bureaucracy - Inward-focused administration seeking exit or divestment, many operating/marketing challenges 
• Death - Closure, sell-off, or bankruptcy.