System Atlas

Pricing → 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
15
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    money
  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
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
People1
Suppliers and partners
100%
15
Process2
Product or service design
100%
15
Production or delivery
100%
15
Decisions1
Pricing
100%
15
Variant 25
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Org structure
80%
12
Sales
27%
4
Customer service and support
27%
4
Account management
27%
4
Process5
Lead generation
60%
9
Billing and invoicing
33%
5
Quality control
27%
4
Hiring
27%
4
Logistics and fulfilment
20%
3
Software2
Core system of record
47%
7
Integrations
47%
7
Data5
Customer data
73%
11
Legal and contracts administration
47%
7
Reporting and dashboards
40%
6
Cash and treasury
33%
5
Data management
27%
4
Decisions9
Market and positioning
80%
12
Strategy and goals
73%
11
Regulatory compliance
53%
8
Licences and registrations
40%
6
Contracts
33%
5
Budgeting and forecasting
33%
5
Policies and culture
33%
5
Security and access
33%
5
Performance and pay
20%
3
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.

  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 2 · at 4 companies
  • Licences and registrations3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 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
  • Account management1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Legal and contracts administration1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Instances
The 15 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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