Market and positioning → customer service and support
How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.
Cross-industryRun by organizations in 9 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.
- Organizations running it
- 55
- Of their industry
- 1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- PeopleCustomer service and supportin 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
Org structure
80%
44
Sales
65%
36
Suppliers and partners
44%
24
Account management
29%
16
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.
- Sales22 findingsManual hand-off 10 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 4 · Informal channel 1 · at 20 companies
- Suppliers and partners10 findingsDependency 10 · at 10 companies
- Hiring9 findingsInformal channel 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
- Customer service and support9 findingsDependency 3 · Tacit rule 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
- Health, safety and environment5 findingsManual hand-off 3 · Workaround 2 · at 5 companies
- Quality control4 findingsDependency 4 · at 4 companies
- Regulatory compliance3 findingsDependency 3 · at 3 companies
- Customer onboarding3 findingsDependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- subscription5%
- service4%
- product2%
Size
- 1000+ people22%
- 11-50 people4%
- 201-500 people4%
- 501-1000 people4%
- 51-200 people4%
Region
- United States29%
- United Kingdom11%
- Germany9%
- Sweden7%
- France4%
- North America4%
Instances
The 55 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.