System Atlas

Data management → product or service design → reporting and dashboards

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 10 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
21
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Data
    Data management
    in 100% of instances
    information
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 90% of instances
    information
  3. Data
    Reporting and dashboards
    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
Data management
100%
21
Reporting and dashboards
100%
21
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.

  • Sales4 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 3 companies
  • Billing and invoicing2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Management cadence2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Budgeting and forecasting1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product19%
  • subscription19%
  • marketplace10%
  • service5%
Size
  • 1000+ people33%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 51-200 people10%
  • 201-500 people5%
Region
  • United States52%
  • Switzerland14%
  • Japan10%
  • China5%
  • Europe5%
  • France5%
Instances
The 21 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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