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Constructs/Process

Market and positioning → product or service design → hiring → policies and culture (+2)

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 8 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

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Organizations running it
14
Of their industry
0%
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 93% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Lead generation
    in 93% of instances
    information
  6. People
    Sales
    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
Product or service design
93%
13
Hiring
100%
14
Lead generation
93%
13
Variant · where they differ
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

  • Sales5 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product29%
  • marketplace14%
  • subscription14%
  • asset7%
Size
  • 1000+ people21%
  • 201-500 people21%
  • 11-50 people7%
Region
  • United States43%
  • Canada7%
  • France7%
  • Germany / United States7%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States7%
  • Northern California, United States7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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