System Atlas

Policies and culture → market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design (+1)

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 19 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
66
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 98% of instances
    money
  3. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 94% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    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
People5
Org structure
77%
51
Sales
64%
42
Customer service and support
61%
40
Suppliers and partners
53%
35
Account management
26%
17
Process6
Customer onboarding
53%
35
Quality control
39%
26
Learning and improvement
38%
25
Logistics and fulfilment
30%
20
Billing and invoicing
26%
17
Onboarding and training
26%
17
Software2
Integrations
33%
22
Inference serving
23%
15
Decisions9
Pricing
64%
42
Regulatory compliance
61%
40
Contracts
53%
35
Security and access
52%
34
Governance and decision rights
41%
27
Performance and pay
35%
23
Data protection and security assurance
30%
20
Usage pricing and metering
23%
15
Health, safety and environment
21%
14
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.

  • Sales21 findings
    Manual hand-off 11 · Dependency 7 · Informal channel 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 20 companies
  • Suppliers and partners19 findings
    Dependency 18 · Workaround 1 · at 17 companies
  • Production or delivery18 findings
    Dependency 13 · Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 16 companies
  • Customer onboarding11 findings
    Dependency 8 · Manual hand-off 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 10 companies
  • Pricing9 findings
    Tacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 9 companies
  • Customer service and support8 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
  • Quality control6 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Product or service design5 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product9%
  • subscription5%
  • asset2%
  • project2%
  • service2%
Size
  • 1000+ people11%
  • 201-500 people9%
  • 11-50 people6%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States41%
  • San Francisco, United States6%
  • Switzerland5%
  • Canada3%
  • Japan3%
  • North America3%
Instances
The 66 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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