System Atlas

Suppliers and partners → product or service design → production or delivery → integrations

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 5 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
10
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 90% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    work
  3. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Software
    Integrations
    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
Org structure
80%
8
Account management
40%
4
Customer service and support
30%
3
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.

  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Legal and contracts administration1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Suppliers and partners1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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