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Constructs/Process

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → product or service design (+4)

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

Within one industryHolds in Cloud, data centre and data platform providers. 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
    Lead generation
    in 93% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 93% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 93% of instances
    then
  6. Data
    Regions and availability zones
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Software
    Usage metering and billing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  8. Decisions
    Security and access
    in 93% 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 8
At least 90% have it
Process3
Lead generation
93%
13
Product or service design
93%
13
Production or delivery
93%
13
Software1
Usage metering and billing
100%
14
Data1
Regions and availability zones
100%
14
Decisions3
Market and positioning
100%
14
Pricing
100%
14
Security and access
93%
13
Variant 23
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People5
Org structure
71%
10
Sales
64%
9
Suppliers and partners
50%
7
Site and operations engineers
50%
7
Account management
21%
3
Process10
Customer onboarding
71%
10
Hiring
64%
9
Billing and invoicing
57%
8
Proposals and quoting
50%
7
Uptime and incident response
43%
6
Procurement
29%
4
Learning and improvement
29%
4
Quality control
21%
3
Capacity planning
21%
3
Hardware lifecycle
21%
3
Software2
Network and interconnection
57%
8
Integrations
29%
4
Decisions6
Contracts
71%
10
Strategy and goals
71%
10
Policies and culture
57%
8
Regulatory compliance
57%
8
Data residency and sovereignty
57%
8
Governance and decision rights
21%
3
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.

  • Sales4 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Uptime and incident response2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Contracts1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription14%
  • service7%
Size
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 501-1000 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
Region
  • United States36%
  • France14%
  • London, England7%
  • New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, London7%
  • San Francisco, United States7%
  • Singapore7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

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