System Atlas

Product or service design → suppliers and partners → governance and decision rights → 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
21
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 95% of instances
    money
  2. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 95% of instances
    money
  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
Suppliers and partners
100%
21
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 partners4 findings
    Dependency (public record) 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Bottleneck (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
  • Licences and registrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Product or service design1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product48%
  • subscription19%
  • service14%
  • marketplace10%
Size
  • 1000+ people24%
  • 11-50 people19%
  • 201-500 people10%
  • 51-200 people10%
  • 1-10 people5%
Region
  • United States62%
  • China10%
  • France5%
  • Germany5%
  • India5%
  • New Zealand5%
Instances
The 21 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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