System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → product or service design (+2)

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
44
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 98% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 93% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 98% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    control
  6. 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
Process3
Lead generation
93%
41
Product or service design
98%
43
Hiring
100%
44
Decisions3
Market and positioning
98%
43
Pricing
100%
44
Regulatory compliance
100%
44
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.

  • Sales14 findings
    Manual hand-off 8 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 13 companies
  • Suppliers and partners14 findings
    Dependency 13 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 14 companies
  • Pricing8 findings
    Tacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · at 8 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Lead generation3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product20%
  • subscription9%
  • marketplace2%
Size
  • 1000+ people18%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 501-1000 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 201-500 people2%
Region
  • United States48%
  • Japan5%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • Switzerland5%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL2%
  • Canada2%
Instances
The 44 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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