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Strategy and goals → governance and decision rights → product or service design → market and positioning (+1)

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
23
Of their industry
10%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 96% of instances
    information
  4. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. People
    Org structure
    in 91% 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 5
At least 90% have it
People1
Org structure
91%
21
Process1
Product or service design
96%
22
Decisions3
Strategy and goals
100%
23
Governance and decision rights
100%
23
Market and positioning
100%
23
Variant 19
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People1
Sales
35%
8
Process6
Lead generation
74%
17
Quality control
57%
13
Hiring
52%
12
Billing and invoicing
43%
10
Production or delivery
39%
9
Scheduling and capacity
35%
8
Software2
Integrations
43%
10
Core system of record
39%
9
Data4
Reporting and dashboards
65%
15
Legal and contracts administration
39%
9
Cash and treasury
35%
8
Data management
22%
5
Decisions6
Regulatory compliance
78%
18
Pricing
74%
17
Policies and culture
52%
12
Security and access
35%
8
Contracts
30%
7
Budgeting and forecasting
26%
6
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.

  • Governance and decision rights4 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Quality control1 finding
    Bottleneck 1 · at 1 company
  • Reporting and dashboards1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product48%
  • marketplace22%
  • subscription17%
  • service4%
Size
  • 1000+ people43%
  • 11-50 people13%
  • 501-1000 people9%
  • 51-200 people9%
  • 1-10 people4%
  • 201-500 people4%
Region
  • United States74%
  • France4%
  • India4%
  • Singapore4%
  • Singapore / United States4%
Instances
The 23 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member