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Market and positioning → production or delivery → norms and standards → data management (+3)

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 4 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
10
Of their industry
4%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Norms and standards
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Data
    Data management
    in 90% of instances
    information
  5. Software
    Communication tools
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  7. People
    Secretariat and executive head
    in 90% of instances

Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.

Structure
GroupsLayersEverything
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Production or delivery
100%
10
Norms and standards
100%
10
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Voluntary and earmarked contributions3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Management cadence2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Hiring2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer data1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Data management1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 1000+ people40%
  • 501-1000 people20%
Region
  • Switzerland60%
  • France20%
  • Germany10%
  • United Kingdom10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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