When a significant change in the nature of demand occurs, one can scrap them and get new machines. Learning, influencing and growing enhance survival in ways that simple response cannot. Current principles of accounting may sweep that waste under the rug, but society still pays the price. In the long run, it is much cheaper to design organizational processes allowing them to evolve while producing wealth in a continuous, agile cycle. The key to this is managing interfaces.
Organizations are interfaces to bring knowledge and resources to achieve goals.
Managing interfaces radically alters the context in which organizations engineer business processes, as well as how they institutionalize them. Business process engineering can be focused on processes which are immediately important to the organization's future success. Managing agile interfaces means repeating this cycle to lead and respond to markets. Interface management provides a way for organizations to reengineer themselves for agility while at the same time using agile methods. It also provides control structures, methods and tools for starting and maintaining growth cycles.