Policies and culture → market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design (+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
- 65
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsPolicies and culturein 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 98% of instancesmoney
- ProcessLead generationin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 94% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 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
Policies and culture
100%
65
Market and positioning
98%
64
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.
- Sales20 findingsManual hand-off 11 · Dependency 6 · Informal channel 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 19 companies
- Suppliers and partners19 findingsDependency 18 · Workaround 1 · at 17 companies
- Production or delivery18 findingsDependency 13 · Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 16 companies
- Customer onboarding11 findingsDependency 8 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 10 companies
- Pricing9 findingsTacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 9 companies
- Customer service and support7 findingsDependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Workaround 1 · at 7 companies
- Quality control6 findingsDependency 6 · at 6 companies
- Product or service design5 findingsBottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product8%
- subscription5%
- asset2%
- project2%
- service2%
Size
- 1000+ people11%
- 201-500 people9%
- 11-50 people6%
- 51-200 people6%
Region
- United States42%
- San Francisco, United States6%
- Switzerland5%
- Canada3%
- North America3%
- United Kingdom3%
Instances
The 65 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.