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Product or service design → org structure → governance and decision rights → legal and contracts administration

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

Within one industryHolds in Information & media. 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
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    money
  3. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 94% of instances
    control
  4. Data
    Legal and contracts administration
    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
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
People1
Org structure
100%
16
Process1
Product or service design
100%
16
Data1
Legal and contracts administration
100%
16
Decisions1
Governance and decision rights
94%
15
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Account management
31%
5
Sales
25%
4
Process6
Lead generation
56%
9
Production or delivery
50%
8
Hiring
38%
6
Quality control
31%
5
Billing and invoicing
31%
5
Scheduling and capacity
25%
4
Software3
Core system of record
50%
8
Integrations
38%
6
Communication tools
25%
4
Data2
Cash and treasury
31%
5
Data management
25%
4
Decisions8
Market and positioning
75%
12
Pricing
75%
12
Strategy and goals
69%
11
Policies and culture
50%
8
Budgeting and forecasting
44%
7
Security and access
44%
7
Contracts
25%
4
Licences and registrations
25%
4
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

See Member
Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

See Member
Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Account management1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Legal and contracts administration1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product50%
  • marketplace19%
  • subscription19%
  • service13%
Size
  • 1000+ people38%
  • 11-50 people13%
  • 51-200 people13%
  • 201-500 people6%
Region
  • United States56%
  • South Korea13%
  • China6%
  • France6%
  • Germany6%
  • India6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

See Member