Product or service design → market and positioning → data protection and security assurance → sales (+1)
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 24
- Of their industry
- 35%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- ProcessProduct or service designin 96% of instancesinformation
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsData protection and security assurancein 100% of instancesinformation
- PeopleSalesin 100% of instancesinformation
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 96% 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
Hiring
79%
19
Customer onboarding
67%
16
Onboarding and training
46%
11
Uptime and incidents
38%
9
Evaluation and red-teaming
38%
9
Learning and improvement
38%
9
Quality control
33%
8
Logistics and fulfilment
33%
8
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
25%
6
Billing and invoicing
21%
5
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.
- Sales11 findingsManual hand-off 6 · Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 11 companies
- Suppliers and partners7 findingsDependency 7 · at 7 companies
- Customer onboarding6 findingsDependency 6 · at 5 companies
- Production or delivery4 findingsDependency 4 · at 4 companies
- Health, safety and environment3 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
- Customer service and support3 findingsDependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
- Hiring2 findingsDependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
- Inference serving2 findingsBottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- service4%
- subscription4%
Size
- 201-500 people8%
- 51-200 people8%
- 1000+ people4%
- 501-1000 people4%
Region
- United States25%
- North America8%
- San Francisco, United States8%
- Canada4%
- France4%
- New York, NY4%
Instances
The 24 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.