Market and positioning → customer service and support → hiring
Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 22 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 59
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 98% of instancesthen
- PeopleCustomer service and supportin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 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
80%
47
Customer onboarding
58%
34
Quality control
37%
22
Billing and invoicing
31%
18
Learning and improvement
31%
18
Onboarding and training
24%
14
Proposals and quoting
22%
13
Logistics and fulfilment
22%
13
Integrations
32%
19
Inference serving
20%
12
Systems: tools and data
20%
12
Communication tools
20%
12
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.
- Sales23 findingsManual hand-off 11 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 21 companies
- Suppliers and partners15 findingsDependency 13 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 14 companies
- Production or delivery9 findingsDependency 7 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 9 companies
- Hiring8 findingsDependency 3 · Tacit rule 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 8 companies
- Customer service and support8 findingsDependency 3 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
- Pricing7 findingsTacit rule 4 · Manual hand-off 3 · at 7 companies
- Customer onboarding4 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 4 companies
- Org structure4 findingsBottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- product7%
- subscription7%
- marketplace2%
Size
- 1000+ people10%
- 501-1000 people7%
- 11-50 people5%
- 201-500 people5%
- 51-200 people5%
Region
- United States34%
- Germany8%
- France7%
- San Francisco, United States5%
- Switzerland5%
- United Kingdom5%
Instances
The 59 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.