System Atlas

Market and positioning → pricing → org structure → regulatory compliance (+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
30
Of their industry
2%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 93% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Org structure
    in 90% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  5. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% 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
Governance and decision rights
67%
20
Policies and culture
60%
18
Security and access
53%
16
Contracts
40%
12
Usage pricing and metering
33%
10
Data protection and security assurance
33%
10
Model release and versioning
27%
8
Performance and pay
23%
7
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.

  • Sales8 findings
    Manual hand-off 5 · Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 7 companies
  • Suppliers and partners8 findings
    Dependency 6 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 8 companies
  • Pricing4 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • 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
  • Logistics and fulfilment2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product27%
  • marketplace13%
  • subscription13%
Size
  • 1000+ people20%
  • 501-1000 people13%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 201-500 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
Region
  • United States57%
  • Canada3%
  • China3%
  • India3%
  • Japan3%
  • New York (US); also offices in London and San Francisco3%
Instances
The 30 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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