System Atlas

Product or service design → market and positioning → pricing → billing and invoicing

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 14 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
41
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    information
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 93% of instances
    money
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    money
  4. Process
    Billing and invoicing
    in 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
Suppliers and partners
73%
30
Org structure
71%
29
Customer service and support
66%
27
Sales
56%
23
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.

  • Sales10 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 4 · Bottleneck 2 · at 9 companies
  • Suppliers and partners9 findings
    Dependency 8 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 9 companies
  • Customer service and support6 findings
    Informal channel 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 6 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Billing and invoicing4 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 3 companies
  • Security and access4 findings
    Workaround 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product20%
  • subscription17%
  • agency_franchise2%
  • marketplace2%
Size
  • 1000+ people15%
  • 11-50 people10%
  • 201-500 people7%
  • 501-1000 people5%
  • 51-200 people2%
Region
  • United States51%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • Argentina2%
  • Canada2%
  • France2%
  • Germany / United States2%
Instances
The 41 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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