System Atlas

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

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

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
45
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 93% of instances
    work
  3. Process
    Customer onboarding
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Hiring
    in 93% 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
Market and positioning
100%
45
Policies and culture
100%
45
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 10 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 2 · Informal channel 2 · at 16 companies
  • Customer onboarding11 findings
    Dependency 8 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 10 companies
  • Suppliers and partners9 findings
    Dependency 9 · at 9 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Customer service and support5 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
  • Quality control3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Contracts2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product7%
  • subscription7%
  • marketplace4%
Size
  • 1000+ people9%
  • 201-500 people9%
  • 51-200 people9%
  • 501-1000 people2%
Region
  • United States42%
  • France9%
  • San Francisco, United States7%
  • United Kingdom4%
  • Canada2%
  • Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom2%
Instances
The 45 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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