System Atlas

Market and positioning → production or delivery → customer service and support

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 31 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
80
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Customer service and support
    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
Inventory and assets
31%
25
Data management
26%
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

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Sales24 findings
    Manual hand-off 12 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 3 · Informal channel 2 · at 23 companies
  • Production or delivery19 findings
    Dependency 10 · Bottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Workaround 2 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 17 companies
  • Suppliers and partners19 findings
    Dependency 18 · Workaround 1 · at 18 companies
  • Customer service and support17 findings
    Informal channel 5 · Dependency 4 · Tacit rule 4 · Manual hand-off 3 · Workaround 1 · at 16 companies
  • Hiring8 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 8 companies
  • Pricing8 findings
    Tacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · at 8 companies
  • Customer onboarding7 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 6 companies
  • Org structure5 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product5%
  • service5%
  • subscription5%
  • marketplace1%
Size
  • 1000+ people15%
  • 11-50 people6%
  • 51-200 people6%
  • 201-500 people4%
  • 501-1000 people3%
Region
  • United States33%
  • France8%
  • United Kingdom6%
  • Switzerland5%
  • San Francisco, United States4%
  • Germany3%
Instances
The 80 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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