System Atlas

Market and positioning → contracts → customer onboarding

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 16 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
37
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Contracts
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Process
    Customer onboarding
    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
Integrations
38%
14
Usage metering and billing
24%
9
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.

  • Sales11 findings
    Manual hand-off 5 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 2 · at 10 companies
  • Suppliers and partners8 findings
    Dependency 8 · at 8 companies
  • Customer onboarding6 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 6 companies
  • Customer service and support6 findings
    Informal channel 3 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 6 companies
  • Pricing4 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · at 4 companies
  • Contracts3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription8%
  • product5%
  • marketplace3%
Size
  • 201-500 people11%
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 1000+ people5%
  • 501-1000 people3%
Region
  • United States41%
  • France11%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • United Kingdom5%
  • Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom3%
  • Europe3%
Instances
The 37 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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