Market and positioning → production or delivery → customer service and support
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 31 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 80
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 94% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 100% of instancesthen
- PeopleCustomer service and supportin 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
Production or delivery
100%
80
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.
- Sales24 findingsManual hand-off 12 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 3 · Informal channel 2 · at 23 companies
- Production or delivery19 findingsDependency 10 · Bottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Workaround 2 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 17 companies
- Suppliers and partners19 findingsDependency 18 · Workaround 1 · at 18 companies
- Customer service and support17 findingsInformal channel 5 · Dependency 4 · Tacit rule 4 · Manual hand-off 3 · Workaround 1 · at 16 companies
- Hiring8 findingsDependency 3 · Tacit rule 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 8 companies
- Pricing8 findingsTacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · at 8 companies
- Customer onboarding7 findingsDependency 4 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 6 companies
- Org structure5 findingsBottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product5%
- service5%
- subscription5%
- marketplace1%
Size
- 1000+ people15%
- 11-50 people6%
- 51-200 people6%
- 201-500 people4%
- 501-1000 people3%
Region
- United States33%
- France8%
- United Kingdom6%
- Switzerland5%
- San Francisco, United States4%
- Germany3%
Instances
The 80 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.