System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → quality control → product or service design → market and positioning

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
23
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Process
    Quality control
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% 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 4
At least 90% have it
Process2
Quality control
100%
23
Product or service design
100%
23
Decisions2
Regulatory compliance
100%
23
Market and positioning
91%
21
Variant 23
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People3
Suppliers and partners
78%
18
Sales
39%
9
Customer service and support
26%
6
Process6
Lead generation
78%
18
Hiring
65%
15
Billing and invoicing
48%
11
Production or delivery
39%
9
Customer onboarding
26%
6
Scheduling and capacity
26%
6
Software2
Integrations
52%
12
Core system of record
48%
11
Data5
Customer data
74%
17
Reporting and dashboards
61%
14
Cash and treasury
35%
8
Data management
35%
8
Legal and contracts administration
26%
6
Decisions7
Governance and decision rights
78%
18
Policies and culture
74%
17
Pricing
70%
16
Strategy and goals
70%
16
Security and access
35%
8
Contracts
30%
7
Budgeting and forecasting
26%
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.

  • Sales3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · at 2 companies
  • Core system of record2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product48%
  • marketplace22%
  • subscription13%
  • service4%
Size
  • 1000+ people43%
  • 11-50 people9%
  • 501-1000 people9%
Region
  • United States70%
  • China4%
  • France4%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States4%
  • San Francisco, CA4%
  • Singapore / United States4%
Instances
The 23 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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