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Market and positioning → inventory and assets → hiring

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 27 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
51
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    then
  2. Data
    Inventory and assets
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Hiring
    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 3
At least 90% have it
Process1
Hiring
100%
51
Data1
Inventory and assets
100%
51
Decisions1
Market and positioning
94%
48
Variant 29
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Customer service and support
65%
33
Suppliers and partners
53%
27
Sales
35%
18
Account management
24%
12
Process12
Production or delivery
78%
40
Product or service design
69%
35
Lead generation
65%
33
Customer onboarding
43%
22
Logistics and fulfilment
31%
16
Quality control
29%
15
Onboarding and training
27%
14
Procurement
24%
12
Research enterprise and sponsored programs
24%
12
Planning and scheduling
22%
11
Financial aid and funding
22%
11
Learning and improvement
22%
11
Software3
Core system of record
33%
17
Communication tools
24%
12
Integrations
22%
11
Data2
Data management
27%
14
Customer data
22%
11
Decisions8
Regulatory compliance
71%
36
Policies and culture
63%
32
Governance and decision rights
53%
27
Pricing
41%
21
Security and access
39%
20
Contracts
35%
18
Health, safety and environment
31%
16
Performance and pay
24%
12
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.

  • Hiring17 findings
    Dependency 5 · Tacit rule 5 · Bottleneck 3 · Informal channel 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 11 companies
  • Customer service and support9 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 8 companies
  • Suppliers and partners8 findings
    Dependency 8 · at 8 companies
  • Production or delivery7 findings
    Dependency 5 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 7 companies
  • Sales7 findings
    Manual hand-off 5 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 7 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 5 companies
  • Core system of record5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • service10%
  • subscription8%
  • product6%
  • distribution2%
Size
  • 1000+ people35%
  • 501-1000 people6%
  • 201-500 people4%
  • 51-200 people4%
  • 11-50 people2%
Region
  • United States20%
  • France12%
  • Germany10%
  • Sweden8%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • Argentina4%
Instances
The 51 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member