Market and positioning → customer onboarding → production or delivery → customer service and support (+1)
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 18 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 38
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessCustomer onboardingin 100% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 92% of instancesthen
- PeopleCustomer service and supportin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 100% of instances
Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.
Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Customer onboarding
100%
38
Production or delivery
92%
35
Hiring
100%
38
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.
- Sales18 findingsManual hand-off 9 · Dependency 5 · Bottleneck 2 · Informal channel 2 · at 16 companies
- Production or delivery8 findingsDependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 8 companies
- Suppliers and partners7 findingsDependency 7 · at 7 companies
- Customer onboarding4 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 4 companies
- Pricing4 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · at 4 companies
- Customer service and support4 findingsDependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
- Hiring3 findingsDependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
- Quality control3 findingsDependency 3 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- subscription8%
- product5%
Size
- 1000+ people13%
- 51-200 people11%
- 501-1000 people5%
Region
- United States34%
- France8%
- United Kingdom8%
- San Francisco, United States5%
- Europe3%
- Germany3%
Instances
The 38 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.