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Market and positioning → sales → contracts → 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 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
11
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Decisions
    Contracts
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 91% 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
Pricing
73%
8
Policies and culture
73%
8
Regulatory compliance
55%
6
Security and access
45%
5
Licences and registrations
36%
4
Governance and decision rights
36%
4
Performance and pay
27%
3
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Pricing3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Sales3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Licences and registrations1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Planning and scheduling1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product18%
  • subscription18%
  • asset9%
  • marketplace9%
Size
  • 201-500 people18%
  • 1000+ people9%
  • 11-50 people9%
  • 51-200 people9%
Region
  • United States27%
  • China9%
  • France9%
  • Germany / United States9%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States9%
  • Northern California, United States9%
Instances
The 11 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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