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Constructs/Process

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners

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

Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
69
Of their industry
5%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 96% of instances
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    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 3
At least 90% have it
People1
Suppliers and partners
100%
69
Process1
Product or service design
96%
66
Decisions1
Market and positioning
100%
69
Variant 26
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Sales
51%
35
Customer service and support
43%
30
Account management
20%
14
Process7
Lead generation
78%
54
Production or delivery
77%
53
Hiring
70%
48
Billing and invoicing
42%
29
Quality control
36%
25
Customer onboarding
36%
25
Logistics and fulfilment
23%
16
Software1
Integrations
38%
26
Data5
Customer data
42%
29
Reporting and dashboards
36%
25
Cash and treasury
28%
19
Legal and contracts administration
25%
17
Data management
22%
15
Decisions10
Strategy and goals
80%
55
Pricing
68%
47
Regulatory compliance
65%
45
Policies and culture
62%
43
Security and access
55%
38
Governance and decision rights
52%
36
Contracts
46%
32
Performance and pay
26%
18
Data protection and security assurance
25%
17
Usage pricing and metering
22%
15
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Suppliers and partners26 findings
    Dependency 22 · Dependency (public record) 3 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 26 companies
  • Sales11 findings
    Manual hand-off 7 · Dependency 4 · at 10 companies
  • Production or delivery7 findings
    Dependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · at 7 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Governance and decision rights5 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Hiring4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Quality control4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product17%
  • marketplace12%
  • subscription12%
  • service3%
  • asset1%
Size
  • 1000+ people16%
  • 201-500 people10%
  • 11-50 people6%
  • 501-1000 people6%
  • 51-200 people6%
  • 1-10 people1%
Region
  • United States52%
  • France4%
  • San Francisco, United States4%
  • China3%
  • North America3%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL1%
Instances
The 69 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

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