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Market and positioning → pricing → suppliers and partners → governance and decision rights (+2)

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

Within one industryHolds in Information & media. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
6
Of their industry
75%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    money
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  5. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  6. Data
    Customer data
    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
Invariant 6
At least 90% have it
People1
Suppliers and partners
100%
6
Process1
Product or service design
100%
6
Data1
Customer data
100%
6
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
6
Pricing
100%
6
Governance and decision rights
100%
6
Variant 13
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Sales
33%
2
Customer service and support
33%
2
Account management
33%
2
Process4
Lead generation
50%
3
Quality control
50%
3
Billing and invoicing
33%
2
Hiring
33%
2
Software2
Core system of record
33%
2
Integrations
33%
2
Data1
Legal and contracts administration
67%
4
Decisions3
Contracts
67%
4
Budgeting and forecasting
33%
2
Licences and registrations
33%
2
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member
Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member
Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Account management1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Licences and registrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Core system of record1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product83%
  • marketplace17%
Size
  • 11-50 people33%
  • 51-200 people17%
Region
  • United States50%
  • France17%
  • India17%
  • Singapore17%
Instances
The 6 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member