System Atlas

Product or service design → production or delivery → logistics and fulfilment

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

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

Organizations running it
26
Of their industry
2%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    work
  2. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    material
  3. Process
    Logistics and fulfilment
    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
Invariant 3
At least 90% have it
Process3
Product or service design
100%
26
Production or delivery
100%
26
Logistics and fulfilment
100%
26
Variant 27
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Suppliers and partners
65%
17
Sales
62%
16
Org structure
62%
16
Customer service and support
38%
10
Process7
Lead generation
69%
18
Hiring
50%
13
Customer onboarding
38%
10
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
27%
7
Evaluation and red-teaming
23%
6
Billing and invoicing
23%
6
Onboarding and training
23%
6
Software2
Inference serving
35%
9
Integrations
27%
7
Data1
Inventory and assets
31%
8
Decisions13
Regulatory compliance
69%
18
Strategy and goals
62%
16
Pricing
58%
15
Policies and culture
50%
13
Security and access
46%
12
Model release and versioning
35%
9
Usage pricing and metering
35%
9
Governance and decision rights
35%
9
Data protection and security assurance
35%
9
Contracts
31%
8
Performance and pay
27%
7
Licences and registrations
27%
7
Health, safety and environment
27%
7
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.

  • Sales9 findings
    Manual hand-off 5 · Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 8 companies
  • Suppliers and partners8 findings
    Dependency 8 · at 8 companies
  • Logistics and fulfilment7 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 7 companies
  • Production or delivery5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
  • Licences and registrations4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Regulatory compliance2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product23%
  • subscription8%
  • asset4%
Size
  • 1000+ people15%
  • 201-500 people12%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 11-50 people4%
  • 51-200 people4%
Region
  • United States35%
  • France8%
  • North America8%
  • Canada4%
  • China4%
  • Germany / United States4%
Instances
The 26 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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