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 Information & media. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 70
- Of their industry
- 5%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 96% of instancesmoney
- PeopleSuppliers and partnersin 100% of instances
Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.
Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Suppliers and partners
100%
70
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.
Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.
Entropy
Where it runs rough
Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.
- Suppliers and partners27 findingsDependency 23 · Dependency (public record) 3 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 27 companies
- Sales12 findingsManual hand-off 7 · Dependency 5 · at 11 companies
- Production or delivery7 findingsDependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · at 7 companies
- Customer onboarding5 findingsDependency 4 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
- Governance and decision rights5 findingsBottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
- Pricing5 findingsTacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
- Hiring4 findingsBottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
- Quality control4 findingsDependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers27%
- Machine learning and AI developer tooling19%
- Cloud and GPU compute providers14%
- Foundation model developers11%
- AI applications and agents9%
- Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers9%
Business model
- product19%
- marketplace11%
- subscription11%
- service3%
- asset1%
Size
- 1000+ people17%
- 201-500 people10%
- 11-50 people6%
- 501-1000 people6%
- 51-200 people6%
- 1-10 people1%
Region
- United States51%
- France4%
- San Francisco, United States4%
- China3%
- North America3%
- Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL1%
Instances
The 70 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.