Market and positioning → pricing → regulatory compliance → product or service design (+1)
How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 6 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 15
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 93% of instancesmoney
- DecisionsPricingin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsRegulatory compliancein 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 100% of instancesinformation
- SoftwareIntegrationsin 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
Lead generation
80%
12
Quality control
67%
10
Hiring
67%
10
Production or delivery
60%
9
Billing and invoicing
60%
9
Customer onboarding
33%
5
Scheduling and capacity
33%
5
Logistics and fulfilment
27%
4
Planning and scheduling
20%
3
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.
- Pricing4 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
- Sales3 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
- Scheduling and capacity2 findingsDependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
- Production or delivery2 findingsBottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
- Core system of record2 findingsDependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
- Billing and invoicing1 findingManual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
- Communication tools1 findingWorkaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
- Governance and decision rights1 findingDependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers47%
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers20%
- Machine learning and AI developer tooling13%
- Companies7%
- Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing7%
- Information & media7%
Business model
- product47%
- subscription27%
- marketplace7%
- service7%
Size
- 1000+ people20%
- 11-50 people20%
- 501-1000 people13%
Region
- United States67%
- Germany7%
- Los Angeles, California, United States7%
- San Francisco, CA7%
- Singapore7%
Instances
The 15 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.