Progress by directed effort

• Planned progress
• Progress by intelligent design
• Pacific _____ (one of the Baby Bells)
• One way to obtain goals
• Well-planned progress
• Progress intelligently planned
• Intelligently planned progress

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The intelligent planning of the means to achieve a desired end.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Telesis (from the Greek τέλεσις /telesis/) or "planned progress" was a concept and neologism coined by the American sociologist Lester Frank Ward (often referred to as the "father of American sociology"), in the late 19th century to describe directed social ...