System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → 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 10 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
16
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    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
Hiring
63%
10
Customer onboarding
50%
8
Logistics and fulfilment
44%
7
Billing and invoicing
38%
6
Proposals and quoting
31%
5
Quality control
31%
5
Learning and improvement
25%
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.

  • Pricing5 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Sales5 findings
    Manual hand-off 4 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product38%
  • subscription31%
  • asset6%
  • service6%
Size
  • 11-50 people13%
  • 201-500 people13%
Region
  • United States31%
  • Canada6%
  • Germany / United States6%
  • India6%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States6%
  • New Zealand6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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