System Atlas

Market and positioning → customer onboarding → hiring

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 21 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
52
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Customer onboarding
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Hiring
    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
Sales
73%
38
Customer service and support
73%
38
Suppliers and partners
56%
29
Account management
29%
15
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.

  • Sales20 findings
    Manual hand-off 10 · Dependency 6 · Bottleneck 2 · Informal channel 2 · at 18 companies
  • Customer onboarding11 findings
    Dependency 8 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 10 companies
  • Suppliers and partners10 findings
    Dependency 10 · at 10 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer service and support4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · 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
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription8%
  • product6%
  • marketplace4%
Size
  • 1000+ people12%
  • 51-200 people10%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 201-500 people6%
Region
  • United States38%
  • France8%
  • San Francisco, United States6%
  • United Kingdom6%
  • Switzerland4%
  • Canada2%
Instances
The 52 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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