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Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners → production or delivery

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

Within one industryHolds in Information & media. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
18
Of their industry
1%
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 100% of instances
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    work
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    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
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
People1
Suppliers and partners
100%
18
Process2
Product or service design
100%
18
Production or delivery
100%
18
Decisions1
Market and positioning
100%
18
Variant 23
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Org structure
78%
14
Sales
28%
5
Process5
Lead generation
61%
11
Billing and invoicing
33%
6
Hiring
33%
6
Quality control
28%
5
Logistics and fulfilment
28%
5
Software2
Core system of record
39%
7
Integrations
28%
5
Data5
Customer data
61%
11
Reporting and dashboards
39%
7
Legal and contracts administration
39%
7
Cash and treasury
33%
6
Data management
28%
5
Decisions9
Pricing
67%
12
Regulatory compliance
67%
12
Strategy and goals
67%
12
Licences and registrations
44%
8
Contracts
28%
5
Budgeting and forecasting
28%
5
Policies and culture
28%
5
Security and access
28%
5
Performance and pay
22%
4
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

See Member
Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Suppliers and partners6 findings
    Dependency 4 · Dependency (public record) 2 · at 6 companies
  • Licences and registrations5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product50%
  • marketplace11%
  • subscription11%
  • asset6%
  • service6%
Size
  • 1000+ people28%
  • 201-500 people17%
  • 11-50 people11%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States50%
  • France11%
  • Philippines11%
  • China6%
  • India6%
  • Italy6%
Instances
The 18 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

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