System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → product or service design → reporting and dashboards → governance and decision rights

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
29
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Data
    Reporting and dashboards
    in 100% of instances
    money
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 97% 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
Process1
Product or service design
100%
29
Data1
Reporting and dashboards
100%
29
Decisions2
Regulatory compliance
100%
29
Governance and decision rights
97%
28
Variant 21
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Suppliers and partners
72%
21
Sales
24%
7
Process6
Lead generation
66%
19
Quality control
45%
13
Production or delivery
41%
12
Hiring
41%
12
Billing and invoicing
34%
10
Scheduling and capacity
34%
10
Software3
Core system of record
48%
14
Integrations
31%
9
Communication tools
24%
7
Data3
Legal and contracts administration
45%
13
Data management
31%
9
Cash and treasury
28%
8
Decisions7
Market and positioning
72%
21
Strategy and goals
66%
19
Pricing
59%
17
Security and access
45%
13
Policies and culture
41%
12
Budgeting and forecasting
38%
11
Contracts
21%
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.

  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Legal and contracts administration1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product52%
  • marketplace24%
  • subscription17%
  • service7%
Size
  • 1000+ people59%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 201-500 people3%
  • 501-1000 people3%
  • 51-200 people3%
Region
  • United States59%
  • China10%
  • France3%
  • Germany3%
  • India3%
  • Japan3%
Instances
The 29 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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