System Atlas

Market and positioning → org structure → strategy and goals → product or service design (+1)

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
55
Of their industry
4%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% 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
Reporting and dashboards
27%
15
Cash and treasury
24%
13
Customer data
22%
12
Inventory and assets
20%
11
Legal and contracts administration
20%
11
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.

  • Sales17 findings
    Manual hand-off 9 · Dependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 16 companies
  • Suppliers and partners16 findings
    Dependency 14 · Dependency (public record) 2 · at 16 companies
  • Production or delivery9 findings
    Dependency 6 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 9 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 5 · at 5 companies
  • Customer service and support5 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
  • Product or service design4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 4 companies
  • Org structure4 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Pricing4 findings
    Tacit rule 3 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product16%
  • subscription7%
  • asset2%
  • marketplace2%
  • service2%
Size
  • 1000+ people11%
  • 201-500 people9%
  • 51-200 people9%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 501-1000 people5%
  • 1-10 people2%
Region
  • United States44%
  • France4%
  • North America4%
  • San Francisco, United States4%
  • South Korea4%
  • United Kingdom4%
Instances
The 55 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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