Market and positioning → product or service design → customer onboarding → hiring (+1)
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 15 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 45
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 93% of instanceswork
- ProcessCustomer onboardingin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 93% of instancesthen
- DecisionsPolicies and culturein 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
Market and positioning
100%
45
Policies and culture
100%
45
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 10 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 2 · Informal channel 2 · at 16 companies
- Customer onboarding11 findingsDependency 8 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 10 companies
- Suppliers and partners9 findingsDependency 9 · at 9 companies
- Pricing5 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
- Customer service and support5 findingsDependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
- Quality control3 findingsDependency 3 · at 3 companies
- Contracts2 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
- Governance and decision rights2 findingsDependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product7%
- subscription7%
- marketplace4%
Size
- 1000+ people9%
- 201-500 people9%
- 51-200 people9%
- 501-1000 people2%
Region
- United States42%
- France9%
- San Francisco, United States7%
- United Kingdom4%
- Canada2%
- Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom2%
Instances
The 45 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.