Mechanism
Fire-Stimulated Germination
TL;DR
Some organizational capabilities and innovations require crisis to emerge.
Some chaparral seeds require fire to germinate (heat-shock or smoke-chemical triggers). Seeds lie dormant 20-50 years accumulated in soil seed bank. Fire triggers germination synchronously across millions of seeds. Result: dense seedling cohort overwhelming herbivores.
Business Application of Fire-Stimulated Germination
Some organizational capabilities and innovations require crisis to emerge. Dormant ideas and suppressed initiatives can germinate simultaneously when market disruption provides the trigger.