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Dan North has introduced the term evolvability:

"As an agile process coach, my job is to increase a team’s – or in the case of an Organisational Transformation programme an entire organisation’s – ability to evolve. Taking a cue from Mother Nature, you can’t expect this to occur overnight. The weight of evidence shows that macro-mutations in the process are almost always going to be detrimental. Instead you need to evolve the organisation towards evolvability, or agility, through a series of small steps that are easy and intuitive to grasp."

An organism only needs to be evolvable if it seeks longevity and its environmental niche is volatile. Many software development organisations fall into this category - for example, look at the pace of change in the communications markets. But others probably don't - maybe the pace of change in their niches isn't so great, or longevity isn't a concern for them. So while I embrace evolvability adaptability as a concept, I will check first to see whether it is needed.