System Atlas

Market and positioning → policies and culture → regulatory compliance

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 24 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
68
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 96% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. 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
Strategy and goals
76%
52
Pricing
62%
42
Governance and decision rights
57%
39
Security and access
50%
34
Contracts
46%
31
Performance and pay
26%
18
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 partners19 findings
    Dependency 17 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 18 companies
  • Sales15 findings
    Manual hand-off 9 · Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 13 companies
  • Pricing9 findings
    Tacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 9 companies
  • Production or delivery8 findings
    Dependency 5 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 8 companies
  • Customer service and support8 findings
    Dependency 3 · Informal channel 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Policies and culture5 findings
    Tacit rule 4 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
  • Quality control3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product15%
  • marketplace10%
  • subscription7%
  • project1%
  • service1%
Size
  • 1000+ people28%
  • 201-500 people6%
  • 11-50 people4%
  • 501-1000 people4%
  • 51-200 people4%
Region
  • United States43%
  • Germany6%
  • France4%
  • Japan4%
  • Switzerland4%
  • San Francisco, United States3%
Instances
The 68 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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