Product or service design → market and positioning → pricing → billing and invoicing
How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 14 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 41
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- ProcessProduct or service designin 95% of instancesinformation
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 93% of instancesmoney
- DecisionsPricingin 100% of instancesmoney
- ProcessBilling and invoicingin 100% of instances
Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.
Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Market and positioning
93%
38
Pricing
100%
41
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.
Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.
Entropy
Where it runs rough
Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.
- Sales10 findingsDependency 4 · Manual hand-off 4 · Bottleneck 2 · at 9 companies
- Suppliers and partners9 findingsDependency 8 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 9 companies
- Customer service and support6 findingsInformal channel 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 6 companies
- Pricing5 findingsTacit rule 3 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
- Billing and invoicing4 findingsManual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
- Logistics and fulfilment4 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 3 companies
- Security and access4 findingsWorkaround 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
- Customer onboarding3 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product20%
- subscription17%
- agency_franchise2%
- marketplace2%
Size
- 1000+ people15%
- 11-50 people10%
- 201-500 people7%
- 501-1000 people5%
- 51-200 people2%
Region
- United States51%
- San Francisco, United States5%
- Argentina2%
- Canada2%
- France2%
- Germany / United States2%
Instances
The 41 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.