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Constructs/Knowledge

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners → strategy and goals (+2)

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

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
20
Of their industry
2%
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
    information
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    money
  4. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  6. People
    Org structure
    in 90% 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 6
At least 90% have it
People2
Suppliers and partners
100%
20
Org structure
90%
18
Process1
Product or service design
100%
20
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
20
Strategy and goals
100%
20
Governance and decision rights
100%
20
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People1
Sales
30%
6
Process6
Lead generation
70%
14
Quality control
55%
11
Production or delivery
50%
10
Hiring
50%
10
Billing and invoicing
45%
9
Scheduling and capacity
30%
6
Software2
Integrations
40%
8
Core system of record
35%
7
Data5
Customer data
80%
16
Reporting and dashboards
60%
12
Cash and treasury
40%
8
Legal and contracts administration
40%
8
Data management
20%
4
Decisions7
Pricing
75%
15
Regulatory compliance
75%
15
Policies and culture
55%
11
Contracts
30%
6
Security and access
30%
6
Licences and registrations
30%
6
Budgeting and forecasting
25%
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.

  • Suppliers and partners7 findings
    Dependency 3 · Dependency (public record) 3 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 7 companies
  • Licences and registrations4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Workaround 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product45%
  • marketplace25%
  • subscription15%
  • asset5%
Size
  • 1000+ people45%
  • 11-50 people15%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 51-200 people10%
  • 201-500 people5%
Region
  • United States60%
  • France5%
  • India5%
  • Italy5%
  • Northern California, United States5%
  • Philippines5%
Instances
The 20 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member