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Strategy and goals → governance and decision rights → org structure

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
37
Of their industry
35%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. People
    Org structure
    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
People2
Suppliers and partners
76%
28
Sales
22%
8
Process6
Lead generation
57%
21
Quality control
43%
16
Production or delivery
38%
14
Billing and invoicing
32%
12
Hiring
32%
12
Scheduling and capacity
27%
10
Software3
Core system of record
59%
22
Integrations
35%
13
Communication tools
22%
8
Data4
Customer data
76%
28
Reporting and dashboards
76%
28
Legal and contracts administration
30%
11
Cash and treasury
22%
8
Decisions6
Market and positioning
65%
24
Pricing
65%
24
Regulatory compliance
65%
24
Policies and culture
41%
15
Security and access
38%
14
Budgeting and forecasting
22%
8
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.

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Suppliers and partners5 findings
    Dependency (public record) 3 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product46%
  • subscription30%
  • marketplace16%
Size
  • 1000+ people46%
  • 11-50 people11%
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 501-1000 people5%
Region
  • United States68%
  • South Korea5%
  • Canada3%
  • China3%
  • France3%
  • India3%
Instances
The 37 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

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