System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → hiring → licences and registrations

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 8 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
10
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Licences and registrations
    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
Product or service design
100%
10
Hiring
100%
10
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.

  • Communication tools2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Licences and registrations1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product30%
  • subscription20%
  • asset10%
  • marketplace10%
  • project10%
  • service10%
Size
  • 1000+ people20%
  • 11-50 people20%
  • 201-500 people10%
Region
  • United States50%
  • China10%
  • Germany / United States10%
  • Japan (headquartered in Tokyo), with offices in the UK, United States, France and Israel10%
  • Northern California, United States10%
  • Singapore / United States10%
Instances
The 10 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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