System Atlas

Regulatory compliance → strategy and goals → market and positioning → product or service design

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
57
Of their industry
4%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    information
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 96% 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%
57
Strategy and goals
100%
57
Market and positioning
91%
52
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 partners18 findings
    Dependency 15 · Dependency (public record) 2 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 18 companies
  • Sales12 findings
    Manual hand-off 7 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · at 11 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Customer onboarding4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
  • Governance and decision rights4 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer service and support4 findings
    Informal channel 2 · Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Regulatory compliance3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product26%
  • marketplace11%
  • subscription9%
Size
  • 1000+ people26%
  • 501-1000 people11%
  • 11-50 people5%
  • 51-200 people5%
  • 201-500 people4%
Region
  • United States49%
  • Japan4%
  • Philippines4%
  • San Francisco, United States4%
  • Singapore4%
  • United Kingdom4%
Instances
The 57 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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