System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → market and positioning → governance and decision rights → product or service design (+2)

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
22
Of their industry
2%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 91% of instances
    control
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    then
  5. People
    Org structure
    in 91% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    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 6
At least 90% have it
People1
Org structure
91%
20
Process1
Product or service design
95%
21
Decisions4
Regulatory compliance
100%
22
Market and positioning
100%
22
Governance and decision rights
91%
20
Strategy and goals
100%
22
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Suppliers and partners
77%
17
Sales
27%
6
Process7
Lead generation
73%
16
Production or delivery
50%
11
Quality control
50%
11
Hiring
50%
11
Billing and invoicing
45%
10
Scheduling and capacity
36%
8
Management cadence
23%
5
Software2
Integrations
45%
10
Core system of record
36%
8
Data5
Customer data
77%
17
Reporting and dashboards
55%
12
Legal and contracts administration
36%
8
Cash and treasury
32%
7
Data management
23%
5
Decisions5
Pricing
64%
14
Policies and culture
50%
11
Contracts
32%
7
Security and access
32%
7
Budgeting and forecasting
27%
6
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 partners5 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 2 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Regulatory compliance2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 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
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product45%
  • marketplace23%
  • subscription18%
Size
  • 1000+ people45%
  • 501-1000 people14%
  • 11-50 people9%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States68%
  • Philippines9%
  • India5%
  • Singapore5%
  • Singapore / United States5%
  • Switzerland5%
Instances
The 22 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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