System Atlas

Product or service design → suppliers and partners → regulatory compliance → 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
26
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
    information
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    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
Legal and contracts administration
46%
12
Cash and treasury
38%
10
Data management
31%
8
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 partners4 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 3 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
  • 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
  • product46%
  • marketplace31%
  • subscription15%
  • service8%
Size
  • 1000+ people42%
  • 11-50 people12%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 201-500 people4%
  • 51-200 people4%
Region
  • United States69%
  • China8%
  • France4%
  • Germany4%
  • India4%
  • Singapore4%
Instances
The 26 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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