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Constructs/Process

Market and positioning → production or delivery → norms and standards → governance and decision rights (+1)

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 6 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
12
Of their industry
5%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Norms and standards
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 92% of instances
    control
  5. People
    Secretariat and executive head
    in 92% 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
Management cadence
75%
9
Country offices and field presence
67%
8
Hiring
58%
7
Assessed contributions
50%
6
Voluntary and earmarked contributions
42%
5
Lead generation
33%
4
Product or service design
33%
4
Quality control
33%
4
Customer onboarding
25%
3
Evaluation and oversight offices
25%
3
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Voluntary and earmarked contributions3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Management cadence2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Hiring2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Country offices and field presence1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 1000+ people42%
  • 501-1000 people17%
Region
  • Switzerland50%
  • France17%
  • Geneva, Switzerland and New York City, United States8%
  • Germany8%
  • Indonesia8%
  • United Kingdom8%
Instances
The 12 companies it was seen at
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Variants, couplings and instances

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