This ad will close in  Charting Your Business Future  Years 10
to Retirement: Managing Maturity  Years 10 to Retirement:
Managing Maturity With the maturity of becoming a decade-old
company comes stability. That's the good news. The bad news is
that while your company stabilizes, markets continue to change,
competitors arise, technologies disrupt and the world otherwise
evolves. So the primary growth challenge in this era is to keep
innovating.  You've spent years building systems to formalize
the way your company is run. Now take a look at what you've made
with an eye to tearing at least some of it down. Channels of
communication that worked well for years will be found to leave
important constituencies out of the loop. Department leaders
will be seen as more concerned with turf wars than growing the
company. Policies that once promoted growth will be recognized
as growth-retardants. Markets that once seemed they would expand
forever suddenly mature themselves and become slow- or no-growth
ventures.  This is