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Market and positioning → member states → governance and decision rights → founding treaty and mandate

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
14
Of their industry
6%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Member states
    in 93% of instances
    control
  3. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Founding treaty and mandate
    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
Member states
93%
13
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
14
Governance and decision rights
100%
14
Founding treaty and mandate
100%
14
Variant 27
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Partnerships
79%
11
Secretariat and executive head
79%
11
Org structure
36%
5
Customer service and support
29%
4
Process14
Production or delivery
79%
11
Norms and standards
79%
11
Management cadence
64%
9
Country offices and field presence
43%
6
Hiring
43%
6
Evaluation and oversight offices
36%
5
Lead generation
29%
4
Planning and scheduling
29%
4
Customer onboarding
29%
4
Assessed contributions
29%
4
Product or service design
21%
3
Quality control
21%
3
Retention and renewal
21%
3
Voluntary and earmarked contributions
21%
3
Software1
Communication tools
79%
11
Data3
Data management
71%
10
Inventory and assets
36%
5
Reporting and dashboards
29%
4
Decisions5
Resolutions and decisions
64%
9
Budgeting and forecasting
43%
6
Policies and culture
43%
6
Pricing
36%
5
Strategy and goals
36%
5
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member
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.

  • Governance and decision rights5 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 4 companies
  • Management cadence3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Resolutions and decisions2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Secretariat and executive head2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Voluntary and earmarked contributions2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 1000+ people21%
  • 51-200 people7%
Region
  • Switzerland29%
  • France14%
  • Americas and Caribbean7%
  • Brazil7%
  • Canada7%
  • Central Europe7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member