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Market and positioning → sales → product or service design → regulatory compliance

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 7 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
16
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    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
Customer data
50%
8
Reporting and dashboards
50%
8
Data management
38%
6
Legal and contracts administration
31%
5
Inventory and assets
25%
4
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.

  • Sales4 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product44%
  • marketplace13%
  • subscription13%
  • service6%
Size
  • 1000+ people44%
  • 11-50 people6%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States63%
  • Canada6%
  • China6%
  • Germany / United States6%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States6%
  • San Francisco, CA6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

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