System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design → suppliers and partners (+4)

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
17
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    money
  4. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    control
  5. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  6. Data
    Customer data
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 94% of instances
    control
  8. People
    Org structure
    in 94% 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
Policies and culture
76%
13
Strategy and goals
76%
13
Pricing
65%
11
Security and access
41%
7
Contracts
35%
6
Budgeting and forecasting
29%
5
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.

  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Reporting and dashboards1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product47%
  • marketplace35%
  • subscription18%
Size
  • 1000+ people53%
  • 501-1000 people12%
  • 11-50 people6%
Region
  • United States65%
  • China6%
  • France6%
  • India6%
  • Singapore6%
  • Singapore / United States6%
Instances
The 17 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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