System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → market and positioning → product or service design → production or delivery

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
16
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 94% of instances
    information
  4. Process
    Production or delivery
    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
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
Process2
Product or service design
94%
15
Production or delivery
100%
16
Decisions2
Regulatory compliance
100%
16
Market and positioning
100%
16
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Suppliers and partners
75%
12
Org structure
75%
12
Sales
25%
4
Customer service and support
25%
4
Process3
Lead generation
56%
9
Logistics and fulfilment
31%
5
Billing and invoicing
31%
5
Software2
Core system of record
38%
6
Integrations
31%
5
Data5
Customer data
56%
9
Legal and contracts administration
44%
7
Reporting and dashboards
38%
6
Cash and treasury
31%
5
Data management
25%
4
Decisions7
Governance and decision rights
75%
12
Strategy and goals
69%
11
Pricing
44%
7
Licences and registrations
31%
5
Contracts
25%
4
Budgeting and forecasting
25%
4
Security and access
25%
4
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.

  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Regulatory compliance2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Licences and registrations2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product44%
  • marketplace13%
  • subscription13%
  • service6%
Size
  • 1000+ people25%
  • 11-50 people6%
  • 501-1000 people6%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States63%
  • Philippines13%
  • China6%
  • India6%
  • Singapore6%
  • Switzerland6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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