System Atlas

Market and positioning → customer service and support → regulatory compliance

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 29 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
60
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 92% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Customer service and support
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Regulatory compliance
    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
Production or delivery
80%
48
Lead generation
73%
44
Hiring
65%
39
Customer onboarding
55%
33
Billing and invoicing
37%
22
Learning and improvement
30%
18
Quality control
28%
17
Logistics and fulfilment
27%
16
Proposals and quoting
23%
14
Onboarding and training
23%
14
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.

  • Sales18 findings
    Manual hand-off 8 · Dependency 5 · Bottleneck 4 · Tacit rule 1 · at 16 companies
  • Suppliers and partners13 findings
    Dependency 12 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 13 companies
  • Customer service and support12 findings
    Dependency 4 · Informal channel 3 · Manual hand-off 3 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 12 companies
  • Pricing10 findings
    Tacit rule 6 · Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 10 companies
  • Production or delivery7 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 7 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
  • Regulatory compliance4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
  • Hiring4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 2 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product8%
  • subscription8%
  • marketplace3%
  • service3%
Size
  • 1000+ people17%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 501-1000 people3%
  • 51-200 people3%
Region
  • United States33%
  • France8%
  • Germany8%
  • United Kingdom7%
  • Japan3%
  • San Francisco, United States3%
Instances
The 60 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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