System Atlas

Market and positioning → hiring → health, safety and environment

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 7 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
25
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Health, safety and environment
    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 3
At least 90% have it
Process1
Hiring
100%
25
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
25
Health, safety and environment
100%
25
Variant 38
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People6
Org structure
76%
19
Sales
64%
16
Customer service and support
60%
15
Suppliers and partners
40%
10
Account management
32%
8
Student services
24%
6
Process14
Production or delivery
72%
18
Customer onboarding
52%
13
Learning and improvement
40%
10
Research enterprise and sponsored programs
36%
9
Onboarding and training
36%
9
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
32%
8
Financial aid and funding
32%
8
Quality control
28%
7
Evaluation and red-teaming
28%
7
Uptime and incidents
24%
6
Billing and invoicing
24%
6
Advancement and alumni relations
24%
6
Procurement
20%
5
Logistics and fulfilment
20%
5
Software3
Inference serving
44%
11
Core system of record
28%
7
Integrations
28%
7
Data3
Inventory and assets
44%
11
Compute capacity
24%
6
Data management
20%
5
Decisions12
Policies and culture
76%
19
Regulatory compliance
60%
15
Governance and decision rights
52%
13
Pricing
48%
12
Security and access
48%
12
Performance and pay
44%
11
Usage pricing and metering
40%
10
Data protection and security assurance
40%
10
Contracts
28%
7
Curriculum
28%
7
Usage policies and model documentation
24%
6
Model release and versioning
20%
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.

  • Hiring10 findings
    Tacit rule 4 · Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Sales9 findings
    Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 8 companies
  • Health, safety and environment7 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 2 · Workaround 2 · at 7 companies
  • Customer onboarding6 findings
    Dependency 5 · Informal channel 1 · at 5 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Regulatory compliance2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • service8%
  • product4%
Size
  • 1000+ people32%
  • 201-500 people8%
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 11-50 people4%
  • 501-1000 people4%
Region
  • United States24%
  • Sweden12%
  • United Kingdom12%
  • North America8%
  • San Francisco, United States8%
  • Canada4%
Instances
The 25 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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