System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners → production or delivery

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
19
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    work
  4. 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
Core system of record
37%
7
Integrations
26%
5
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.

  • Suppliers and partners7 findings
    Dependency 5 · Dependency (public record) 2 · at 7 companies
  • Licences and registrations5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product47%
  • marketplace11%
  • subscription11%
  • asset5%
  • service5%
Size
  • 1000+ people26%
  • 201-500 people16%
  • 11-50 people11%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States47%
  • France16%
  • Philippines11%
  • China5%
  • India5%
  • Italy5%
Instances
The 19 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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