System Atlas

Product or service design → suppliers and partners → regulatory compliance → quality control

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 5 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
18
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  4. Process
    Quality control
    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
Regulatory compliance
100%
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.

  • 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
  • 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
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Strategy and goals1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product50%
  • marketplace28%
  • subscription11%
Size
  • 1000+ people39%
  • 11-50 people11%
  • 501-1000 people11%
Region
  • United States67%
  • China6%
  • France6%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States6%
  • San Francisco, CA6%
  • Singapore / United States6%
Instances
The 18 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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