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Constructs/Knowledge

Market and positioning → pricing → product or service design → suppliers and partners (+2)

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
17
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    money
  5. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 94% of instances
    control
  6. People
    Org structure
    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 6
At least 90% have it
People2
Suppliers and partners
100%
17
Org structure
100%
17
Process1
Product or service design
100%
17
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
17
Pricing
100%
17
Governance and decision rights
94%
16
Variant 19
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Sales
29%
5
Customer service and support
24%
4
Process5
Quality control
59%
10
Production or delivery
53%
9
Hiring
53%
9
Billing and invoicing
47%
8
Scheduling and capacity
35%
6
Software2
Core system of record
41%
7
Integrations
41%
7
Data3
Cash and treasury
53%
9
Reporting and dashboards
53%
9
Legal and contracts administration
53%
9
Decisions7
Regulatory compliance
71%
12
Policies and culture
65%
11
Contracts
41%
7
Security and access
41%
7
Budgeting and forecasting
24%
4
Performance and pay
24%
4
Licences and registrations
24%
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.

  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Licences and registrations2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product53%
  • subscription24%
  • marketplace18%
  • asset6%
Size
  • 1000+ people18%
  • 11-50 people18%
  • 201-500 people18%
  • 501-1000 people12%
  • 51-200 people12%
Region
  • United States71%
  • France12%
  • India6%
  • Northern California, United States6%
Instances
The 17 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member