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Market and positioning → lead generation → contracts → production or delivery (+1)

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 21 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
31
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 90% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Contracts
    in 100% of instances
    control
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 94% of instances
    information
  5. Process
    Logistics and fulfilment
    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
Process3
Lead generation
90%
28
Production or delivery
94%
29
Logistics and fulfilment
100%
31
Decisions2
Market and positioning
94%
29
Contracts
100%
31
Variant · where they differ
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Couplings · what comes together
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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Production or delivery9 findings
    Dependency 8 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
  • Sales9 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 8 companies
  • Suppliers and partners8 findings
    Dependency 8 · at 8 companies
  • Customer service and support7 findings
    Informal channel 4 · Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 7 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment6 findings
    Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 5 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Billing and invoicing3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Health, safety and environment3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription10%
  • product6%
  • asset3%
  • service3%
Size
  • 201-500 people16%
  • 1000+ people10%
  • 11-50 people10%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States29%
  • United Kingdom16%
  • Germany6%
  • Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3%
  • Czech Republic3%
  • Denver, Colorado, United States3%
Instances
The 31 companies it was seen at
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Variants, couplings and instances

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