System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners → regulatory compliance (+4)

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

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
14
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 93% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 93% of instances
    control
  4. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  5. Data
    Customer data
    in 93% of instances
    money
  6. Process
    Billing and invoicing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. People
    Org structure
    in 93% of instances
    money
  8. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 93% 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
Invariant 8
At least 90% have it
People2
Suppliers and partners
93%
13
Org structure
93%
13
Process2
Product or service design
100%
14
Billing and invoicing
100%
14
Data1
Customer data
93%
13
Decisions3
Market and positioning
93%
13
Regulatory compliance
100%
14
Governance and decision rights
93%
13
Variant 19
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People1
Customer service and support
21%
3
Process5
Lead generation
71%
10
Quality control
71%
10
Hiring
71%
10
Scheduling and capacity
50%
7
Production or delivery
36%
5
Software2
Integrations
57%
8
Core system of record
43%
6
Data4
Reporting and dashboards
71%
10
Data management
50%
7
Cash and treasury
43%
6
Legal and contracts administration
43%
6
Decisions7
Strategy and goals
79%
11
Pricing
71%
10
Policies and culture
57%
8
Security and access
57%
8
Budgeting and forecasting
43%
6
Contracts
36%
5
Licences and registrations
21%
3
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.

  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Reporting and dashboards1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Strategy and goals1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product43%
  • marketplace29%
  • subscription21%
  • service7%
Size
  • 1000+ people36%
  • 11-50 people14%
  • 501-1000 people14%
Region
  • United States79%
  • India7%
  • Singapore / United States7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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