System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → product or service design → suppliers and partners → customer data (+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
21
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
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    material
  4. Data
    Customer data
    in 90% of instances
    information
  5. Data
    Reporting and dashboards
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 95% 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
People1
Sales
24%
5
Process6
Lead generation
67%
14
Quality control
52%
11
Production or delivery
43%
9
Billing and invoicing
43%
9
Hiring
43%
9
Scheduling and capacity
33%
7
Software2
Core system of record
38%
8
Integrations
33%
7
Data3
Legal and contracts administration
52%
11
Cash and treasury
38%
8
Data management
29%
6
Decisions6
Pricing
62%
13
Strategy and goals
62%
13
Policies and culture
48%
10
Security and access
43%
9
Budgeting and forecasting
38%
8
Contracts
24%
5
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
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (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
  • product43%
  • marketplace33%
  • subscription14%
  • service10%
Size
  • 1000+ people48%
  • 11-50 people10%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States62%
  • China10%
  • France5%
  • Germany5%
  • India5%
  • Singapore5%
Instances
The 21 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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