System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → customer onboarding → regulatory compliance

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 17 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
44
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 95% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Customer onboarding
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    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
Customer service and support
77%
34
Sales
75%
33
Org structure
70%
31
Suppliers and partners
59%
26
Account management
25%
11
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.

  • Sales21 findings
    Manual hand-off 10 · Dependency 6 · Bottleneck 5 · at 19 companies
  • Suppliers and partners12 findings
    Dependency 12 · at 12 companies
  • Customer onboarding8 findings
    Dependency 5 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 7 companies
  • Customer service and support6 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 6 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 5 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Planning and scheduling4 findings
    Tacit rule 4 · at 4 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product9%
  • subscription9%
  • marketplace5%
  • service2%
Size
  • 1000+ people11%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 501-1000 people5%
Region
  • United States34%
  • France9%
  • United Kingdom7%
  • Argentina2%
  • Canada2%
  • Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom2%
Instances
The 44 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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