Analysis of the business life cycle is a tool for sustainable development, which is increasingly adopted in the public and private organizations. The critical question for the manager is: Where has our company been now? So the management of the business life cycle is to practice this approach in different departments and business of the company. On the other hand, a new approach was developed to support the development and ensure the viability of the company. This is the concept of strategic scanning pulled behind the concept of intelligence from military theories. This notion has spread to be adapted to the context of the company in its logic of environmental monitoring.
In this article, we will try to present in a first part the business life cycles and some cycles judged most outstanding. Among these lifecycles, we will mention materials lifecycles, lifecycles of technologies and social life cycles. In a second step, we will discuss the concept of strategic scanning. Finally, a presentation of the approach to strategic scanning is required followed by the presentation of the relationship between business lifecycle and strategic scanning throughout all stages of the life cycle of the company.