System Atlas

Market and positioning → contracts → product or service design → hiring (+1)

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 15 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
41
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
    Product or service design
    in 90% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    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
Customer onboarding
59%
24
Quality control
39%
16
Billing and invoicing
34%
14
Learning and improvement
34%
14
Logistics and fulfilment
29%
12
Proposals and quoting
27%
11
Onboarding and training
24%
10
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 partners17 findings
    Dependency 15 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 16 companies
  • Sales10 findings
    Manual hand-off 5 · Dependency 4 · Tacit rule 1 · at 9 companies
  • Customer onboarding6 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 6 companies
  • Hiring5 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Tacit rule 2 · at 5 companies
  • Customer service and support5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
  • Policies and culture4 findings
    Tacit rule 4 · at 4 companies
  • Contracts3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product10%
  • subscription10%
  • asset2%
  • marketplace2%
Size
  • 201-500 people10%
  • 1000+ people7%
  • 501-1000 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 11-50 people5%
Region
  • United States44%
  • France7%
  • San Francisco, United States7%
  • United Kingdom5%
  • Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom2%
  • Europe2%
Instances
The 41 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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