System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → governance and decision rights (+2)

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

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
18
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  5. People
    Org structure
    in 94% of instances
    control
  6. Process
    Product or service design
    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 6
At least 90% have it
People1
Org structure
94%
17
Process2
Lead generation
100%
18
Product or service design
100%
18
Decisions3
Market and positioning
94%
17
Pricing
100%
18
Governance and decision rights
100%
18
Variant 18
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Sales
22%
4
Account management
22%
4
Process5
Quality control
56%
10
Hiring
56%
10
Billing and invoicing
44%
8
Scheduling and capacity
44%
8
Production or delivery
39%
7
Software2
Integrations
50%
9
Core system of record
39%
7
Data3
Reporting and dashboards
67%
12
Legal and contracts administration
50%
9
Cash and treasury
33%
6
Decisions6
Strategy and goals
78%
14
Regulatory compliance
72%
13
Policies and culture
67%
12
Security and access
44%
8
Contracts
39%
7
Budgeting and forecasting
28%
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.

  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Bottleneck 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 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
  • Org structure1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product56%
  • subscription28%
  • marketplace11%
  • asset6%
Size
  • 1000+ people33%
  • 201-500 people17%
  • 11-50 people11%
  • 501-1000 people11%
  • 51-200 people6%
Region
  • United States61%
  • France11%
  • India6%
  • New Zealand6%
  • Northern California, United States6%
  • Singapore6%
Instances
The 18 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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