Market and positioning → customer service and support → contracts
How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 16 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 47
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- PeopleCustomer service and supportin 100% of instancesinformation
- DecisionsContractsin 100% of instances
Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.
Structure
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.
- Sales13 findingsDependency 5 · Manual hand-off 5 · Bottleneck 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 12 companies
- Suppliers and partners12 findingsDependency 10 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 11 companies
- Customer service and support12 findingsInformal channel 4 · Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 3 · Tacit rule 2 · at 11 companies
- Pricing6 findingsManual hand-off 3 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 6 companies
- Hiring5 findingsDependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
- Billing and invoicing3 findingsManual hand-off 3 · at 3 companies
- Contracts3 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
- Customer onboarding3 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- subscription13%
- product6%
Size
- 11-50 people6%
- 51-200 people6%
- 1000+ people4%
- 201-500 people4%
- 501-1000 people2%
Region
- United States34%
- France9%
- United Kingdom9%
- San Francisco, United States6%
- Europe2%
- Germany2%
Instances
The 47 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.