f business; sharks and crocodiles fall under this category. Second, the organism is capable of changes in its genetic code to select traits and maximize abilities that give it an advantage for surviving in the environment. Such organisms that show adaptability continue to evolve and flourish. It is only natural to extend this phenomenon to organizations in comparing their origins, evolution, and continual growth in a stretch of organic thinking. Continuing on the same vein, while we could expect networks, superior by design, to survive forever, it is only logical to plan the way for which networks could evolve. This chapter examines in detail some of the ways in which network evolution can be planned. Network resilience is one such tool that could help us understand the aspects of the network that need to be planned for toward evolution. It could also help us to deal with further changes in the industry, which could include both sudden unplanned changes and those that could be anticipated based on industry trends. As discussed in Chapter 4, careful planning and alignment of future goals and services would help businesses and organizations to evolve in the best manner possible. CHAPTER 5 NETWORK ROADMAP EVOLUTION Later in this chapter, we'll also look at organizational factors that could keep the network viable and operational. This would include having response teams in place for any contingency in the network, making detailed and careful service and business continuity plans and executing them, and the ability to infuse radical thinking into the organization to help embrace changing scenarios and anticipate evolutionary requirements. We also discuss ways to measure the mutability and agility of the roadmaps to help planners find better tools to understand and track roadmap evolution. The primary goal of this chapter is to help you get a grasp on the aspects of network roadmap evolution that matter and introduce tools that could be used to assess and analyze these. This will be useful in putting in place a proces