Market and positioning → inventory and assets → customer service and support
How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 25 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 44
- Of their industry
- 0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 95% of instancesthen
- DataInventory and assetsin 100% of instancesthen
- PeopleCustomer service and supportin 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
Customer service and support
100%
44
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.
- Customer service and support15 findingsDependency 4 · Tacit rule 4 · Bottleneck 3 · Informal channel 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 13 companies
- Hiring9 findingsTacit rule 3 · Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
- Sales9 findingsManual hand-off 7 · Dependency 2 · at 9 companies
- Suppliers and partners8 findingsDependency 8 · at 8 companies
- Inventory and assets6 findingsDependency 4 · Bottleneck 2 · at 5 companies
- Pricing5 findingsTacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 5 companies
- Core system of record5 findingsDependency 4 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
- Customer onboarding4 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- service7%
- product5%
- subscription5%
Size
- 1000+ people27%
- 11-50 people5%
- 201-500 people5%
- 51-200 people5%
- 501-1000 people2%
Region
- France14%
- United States14%
- Germany11%
- Sweden11%
- United Kingdom7%
- Australia2%
Instances
The 44 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.