Market and positioning → lead generation → sales → product or service design (+5)
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.
- Organizations running it
- 25
- Of their industry
- 21%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
- DecisionsMarket and positioningin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessLead generationin 100% of instancesinformation
- PeopleSalesin 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessProduct or service designin 92% of instanceswork
- ProcessProduction or deliveryin 92% of instancesthen
- PeopleOrg structurein 100% of instancesthen
- ProcessHiringin 96% of instancesthen
- DecisionsSecurity and accessin 100% of instancesthen
- DecisionsStrategy and goalsin 92% 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
Customer onboarding
72%
18
Billing and invoicing
40%
10
Learning and improvement
40%
10
Logistics and fulfilment
28%
7
Uptime and incidents
28%
7
Uptime and incident response
28%
7
Onboarding and training
28%
7
Proposals and quoting
24%
6
Quality control
24%
6
Procurement
20%
5
Capacity planning
20%
5
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
20%
5
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.
- Sales14 findingsManual hand-off 9 · Dependency 5 · at 13 companies
- Suppliers and partners9 findingsDependency 9 · at 9 companies
- Customer onboarding5 findingsDependency 5 · at 5 companies
- Production or delivery3 findingsDependency 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
- Procurement3 findingsDependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 2 companies
- Contracts2 findingsDependency 2 · at 2 companies
- Health, safety and environment2 findingsDependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
- Billing and invoicing1 findingManual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Business model
- subscription4%
Size
- 201-500 people12%
- 51-200 people12%
- 501-1000 people8%
Region
- United States44%
- France8%
- North America8%
- San Francisco, United States8%
- United Kingdom8%
- Canada4%
Instances
The 25 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances
Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.