System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → market and positioning → product or service design

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
58
Of their industry
49%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    money
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    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 3
At least 90% have it
Process1
Product or service design
100%
58
Decisions2
Regulatory compliance
100%
58
Market and positioning
91%
53
Variant 30
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Org structure
76%
44
Suppliers and partners
62%
36
Sales
55%
32
Customer service and support
34%
20
Process9
Lead generation
79%
46
Production or delivery
67%
39
Hiring
60%
35
Billing and invoicing
40%
23
Quality control
38%
22
Customer onboarding
34%
20
Logistics and fulfilment
26%
15
Onboarding and training
24%
14
Learning and improvement
21%
12
Software4
Integrations
40%
23
Core system of record
28%
16
Inference serving
22%
13
Communication tools
21%
12
Data4
Customer data
43%
25
Reporting and dashboards
43%
25
Data management
31%
18
Legal and contracts administration
26%
15
Decisions9
Strategy and goals
69%
40
Pricing
67%
39
Governance and decision rights
62%
36
Policies and culture
59%
34
Security and access
59%
34
Contracts
33%
19
Data protection and security assurance
31%
18
Usage pricing and metering
28%
16
Performance and pay
21%
12
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 partners15 findings
    Dependency 13 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 15 companies
  • Sales12 findings
    Manual hand-off 6 · Bottleneck 3 · Dependency 3 · at 11 companies
  • Customer onboarding4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
  • Pricing4 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer service and support4 findings
    Informal channel 2 · Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Policies and culture3 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · at 3 companies
  • Quality control3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product26%
  • subscription14%
  • marketplace12%
  • service3%
Size
  • 1000+ people33%
  • 501-1000 people9%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 51-200 people5%
  • 11-50 people3%
Region
  • United States48%
  • China7%
  • Japan3%
  • San Francisco, United States3%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL2%
  • Canada2%
Instances
The 58 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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