Corporate Life Cycle
Companies age, just as individuals do, and they don’t often do so gracefully, again like individuals. In this presentation, the speaker plans to start with a description of what he see as the corporate life cycle, starting with inception (as a start-up), leading through young growth, mature growth, stability and eventual decline, with transitions at each stage. He will use this life cycle to examine three themes that he has returned to over and over again over the last few years: