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Constructs/Process

Market and positioning → lead generation → customer service and support

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

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
73
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 99% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Customer service and support
    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
People4
Sales
75%
55
Org structure
73%
53
Suppliers and partners
52%
38
Account management
29%
21
Process8
Production or delivery
78%
57
Hiring
70%
51
Customer onboarding
59%
43
Billing and invoicing
30%
22
Quality control
29%
21
Learning and improvement
27%
20
Logistics and fulfilment
25%
18
Proposals and quoting
23%
17
Software3
Integrations
30%
22
Usage metering and billing
22%
16
Systems: tools and data
21%
15
Data2
Inventory and assets
30%
22
Data management
25%
18
Decisions12
Strategy and goals
79%
58
Pricing
73%
53
Policies and culture
68%
50
Regulatory compliance
60%
44
Security and access
59%
43
Contracts
55%
40
Governance and decision rights
38%
28
Data protection and security assurance
25%
18
Performance and pay
21%
15
Usage pricing and metering
21%
15
Health, safety and environment
21%
15
Security certifications and audits
21%
15
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Sales28 findings
    Manual hand-off 13 · Dependency 8 · Bottleneck 4 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 26 companies
  • Production or delivery17 findings
    Dependency 10 · Bottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Workaround 1 · at 15 companies
  • Suppliers and partners17 findings
    Dependency 15 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 16 companies
  • Customer service and support16 findings
    Informal channel 5 · Tacit rule 4 · Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 3 · Workaround 1 · at 15 companies
  • Pricing10 findings
    Tacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 4 · Dependency 1 · at 10 companies
  • Customer onboarding6 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 6 companies
  • Hiring5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Quality control5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription8%
  • product5%
  • marketplace1%
  • service1%
Size
  • 1000+ people8%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 11-50 people4%
  • 501-1000 people4%
  • 201-500 people3%
Region
  • United States32%
  • United Kingdom8%
  • France5%
  • Germany4%
  • San Francisco, United States4%
  • Japan3%
Instances
The 73 companies it was seen at
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Variants, couplings and instances

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