System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → customer onboarding → security and access

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 14 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
39
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 92% of instances
    work
  3. Process
    Customer onboarding
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Security and access
    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
77%
30
Customer service and support
69%
27
Org structure
69%
27
Suppliers and partners
62%
24
Account management
31%
12
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.

  • Sales16 findings
    Manual hand-off 9 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 15 companies
  • Suppliers and partners9 findings
    Dependency 9 · at 9 companies
  • Customer onboarding7 findings
    Dependency 5 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 7 companies
  • Pricing5 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Security and access4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Workaround 2 · at 4 companies
  • Customer service and support4 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription13%
  • marketplace3%
  • service3%
Size
  • 1000+ people8%
  • 201-500 people8%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 51-200 people8%
Region
  • United States33%
  • United Kingdom10%
  • France8%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • Brazil3%
  • Canada3%
Instances
The 39 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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