System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → product or service design → customer data → org structure (+1)

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
31
Of their industry
14%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Data
    Customer data
    in 94% of instances
    work
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 94% of instances
    money
  5. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    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
Market and positioning
77%
24
Strategy and goals
68%
21
Pricing
61%
19
Policies and culture
48%
15
Security and access
42%
13
Budgeting and forecasting
39%
12
Contracts
23%
7
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.

  • Org structure3 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Account management1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product55%
  • marketplace26%
  • subscription13%
  • service6%
Size
  • 1000+ people52%
  • 11-50 people10%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 201-500 people3%
  • 51-200 people3%
Region
  • United States61%
  • China10%
  • France3%
  • Germany3%
  • India3%
  • Japan3%
Instances
The 31 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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