System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → production or delivery → org structure (+1)

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

Within one industryHolds in Information & media. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
20
Of their industry
2%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    information
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    information
  3. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 90% of instances
    money
  5. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    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
People2
Suppliers and partners
75%
15
Sales
25%
5
Process5
Lead generation
40%
8
Quality control
25%
5
Logistics and fulfilment
25%
5
Billing and invoicing
25%
5
Hiring
25%
5
Software2
Core system of record
25%
5
Integrations
20%
4
Data5
Customer data
55%
11
Cash and treasury
35%
7
Reporting and dashboards
35%
7
Legal and contracts administration
25%
5
Data management
20%
4
Decisions7
Strategy and goals
75%
15
Regulatory compliance
65%
13
Pricing
50%
10
Licences and registrations
35%
7
Budgeting and forecasting
25%
5
Policies and culture
25%
5
Contracts
20%
4
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.

  • Licences and registrations5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Suppliers and partners5 findings
    Dependency 3 · Dependency (public record) 2 · at 5 companies
  • Governance and decision rights4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Regulatory compliance3 findings
    Workaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Org structure3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Market and positioning2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Instances
The 20 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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