Hiring → policies and culture → market and positioning → product or service design (+1)
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 14 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 39
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- ProcessHiringin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsPolicies and culturein 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 97% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 97% of instanceswork
- ProcessQuality controlin 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
67%
26
Customer onboarding
44%
17
Learning and improvement
33%
13
Billing and invoicing
28%
11
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.
- Hiring10 findingsTacit rule 4 · Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 9 companies
- Suppliers and partners10 findingsDependency 7 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
- Sales8 findingsManual hand-off 4 · Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 7 companies
- Customer onboarding6 findingsDependency 5 · Bottleneck 1 · at 5 companies
- Quality control6 findingsDependency 6 · at 6 companies
- Pricing5 findingsManual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
- Production or delivery3 findingsBottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
- Product or service design3 findingsDependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product18%
- marketplace15%
- subscription3%
Size
- 1000+ people28%
- 201-500 people8%
- 501-1000 people8%
- 11-50 people3%
- 51-200 people3%
Region
- United States59%
- Switzerland8%
- France5%
- San Francisco, United States5%
- Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3%
- Global, remote-first3%
Instances
The 39 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.