System Atlas

Market and positioning → regulatory compliance → strategy and goals → governance and decision rights (+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
13
Of their industry
6%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    control
  6. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  7. Data
    Customer data
    in 100% of instances
    work
  8. People
    Org structure
    in 92% 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 8
At least 90% have it
People1
Org structure
92%
12
Process1
Product or service design
100%
13
Data1
Customer data
100%
13
Decisions5
Market and positioning
100%
13
Regulatory compliance
100%
13
Strategy and goals
100%
13
Governance and decision rights
100%
13
Pricing
100%
13
Variant 17
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Sales
23%
3
Account management
23%
3
Process5
Quality control
62%
8
Billing and invoicing
62%
8
Scheduling and capacity
62%
8
Hiring
54%
7
Production or delivery
38%
5
Software2
Integrations
62%
8
Core system of record
46%
6
Data4
Reporting and dashboards
69%
9
Legal and contracts administration
54%
7
Cash and treasury
46%
6
Data management
23%
3
Decisions4
Policies and culture
54%
7
Contracts
46%
6
Security and access
38%
5
Budgeting and forecasting
31%
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.

  • 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
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Reporting and dashboards1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Core system of record1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product54%
  • marketplace23%
  • subscription23%
Size
  • 1000+ people38%
  • 11-50 people15%
  • 501-1000 people15%
  • 51-200 people8%
Region
  • United States77%
  • India8%
  • Singapore8%
Instances
The 13 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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