Alexander Vityaz (ORCID 0009-0006-0489-7881) · Corezoid Inc., Dnipro, Ukraine Published: March 2026 · Version: v1 · License: CC BY 4.0
This paper presents a four-phase model of enterprise evolution grounded in two results from regulation theory: the Conant–Ashby good regulator theorem and the factorisation necessity theorem for minimal good regulators. The model describes the progression from a fragmented polycentric architecture (Phase 1) through a centralised digital core (Phase 2), a digital twin of the organisation (Phase 3), to the autonomous enterprise (Phase 4). Each phase is characterised by a structural limit beyond which further improvement in the quality of regulation requires an architectural transition. Management debt is interpreted as the accounting shadow of unsuppressed organisational noise. A worked example, a retrospective case study, diagnostic metrics, and a proof sketch of the factorisation theorem are provided.
Keywords: cybernetics, regulation theory, noise suppression, Conant–Ashby theorem, enterprise architecture, digital twin, management debt, actor graphs.
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Vityaz, A. (2026). A Phase Model of Enterprise Evolution: From Fragmentation to the Autonomous Enterprise. Preprint, ResearchGate. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24883.39207
@misc{vityaz2026phasemodel,
author = {Vityaz, Alexander},
title = {A Phase Model of Enterprise Evolution: From Fragmentation to the Autonomous Enterprise},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
howpublished = {Preprint, ResearchGate},
doi = {10.13140/RG.2.2.24883.39207},
url = {https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24883.39207}
}The PDF prints the author's name in the transliterated variant "Oleksandr Vityaz"; this is the same author as elsewhere in the collection (ORCID 0009-0006-0489-7881).
- Builds on On the Necessity of Noise Suppression for Minimal Good Regulators — supplies the factorisation necessity theorem from which the phase transitions are derived
- Builds on Management Debt—Part I — the accounting mechanics for management debt as the shadow of unsuppressed noise
- Cited by Company Brain — adopts this four-phase path as its evolutionary backbone
- Cited by The Compact Company — which builds on the phase transition toward a digital twin and specifies the theoretical object that twin should embody
- Version of record: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24883.39207
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403387171
See CHANGELOG.md.