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Market and positioning → product or service design → org structure → hiring (+5)

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

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
10
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 90% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Org structure
    in 90% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 90% of instances
    control
  7. Process
    Lead generation
    in 90% of instances
    information
  8. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    work
  9. Process
    Customer onboarding
    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
Inventory and assets
40%
4
Customer data
30%
3
Data management
30%
3
Compute capacity
20%
2
Reporting and dashboards
20%
2
Legal and contracts administration
20%
2
Variant · where they differ
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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.

  • Sales5 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Compute capacity1 finding
    Bottleneck 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Logistics and fulfilment1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product20%
  • subscription20%
  • marketplace10%
Size
  • 201-500 people20%
  • 1000+ people10%
Region
  • United States40%
  • Canada10%
  • France10%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States10%
  • San Francisco, CA10%
  • San Francisco, United States10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
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Variants, couplings and instances

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