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Market and positioning → pricing → org structure → hiring (+2)

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 9 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
16
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Org structure
    in 94% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Product or service design
    in 94% of instances
    money
  6. People
    Suppliers and partners
    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
Hiring
100%
16
Product or service design
94%
15
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Org structure3 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Sales3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Core system of record2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product44%
  • subscription25%
  • asset6%
  • marketplace6%
Size
  • 1000+ people13%
  • 201-500 people13%
  • 501-1000 people13%
  • 11-50 people6%
Region
  • United States63%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL6%
  • France6%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States6%
  • Northern California, United States6%
  • San Francisco, CA6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
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Variants, couplings and instances

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