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Suppliers and partners → pricing → regulatory compliance → product or service design

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 8 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
22
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% 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
People2
Customer service and support
45%
10
Sales
27%
6
Process7
Lead generation
68%
15
Quality control
55%
12
Hiring
55%
12
Production or delivery
50%
11
Billing and invoicing
45%
10
Scheduling and capacity
41%
9
Customer onboarding
27%
6
Software2
Integrations
59%
13
Core system of record
41%
9
Data5
Customer data
73%
16
Reporting and dashboards
64%
14
Legal and contracts administration
59%
13
Cash and treasury
36%
8
Data management
32%
7
Decisions5
Governance and decision rights
77%
17
Policies and culture
59%
13
Security and access
55%
12
Contracts
50%
11
Budgeting and forecasting
23%
5
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Pricing4 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Sales3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Core system of record2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product41%
  • subscription23%
  • marketplace18%
  • service5%
Size
  • 1000+ people18%
  • 11-50 people14%
  • 501-1000 people9%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States64%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL5%
  • France5%
  • Germany5%
  • India5%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States5%
Instances
The 22 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

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