System Atlas

Hiring → strategy and goals → product or service design → market and positioning (+1)

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

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
60
Of their industry
3%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 92% of instances
    control
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 92% of instances
    information
  4. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    information
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 90% 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
20%
12
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 partners23 findings
    Dependency 22 · Workaround 1 · at 21 companies
  • Sales21 findings
    Manual hand-off 12 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 20 companies
  • Production or delivery12 findings
    Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 1 · at 12 companies
  • Customer onboarding10 findings
    Dependency 8 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 9 companies
  • Hiring8 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 7 companies
  • Quality control6 findings
    Dependency 6 · at 6 companies
  • Customer service and support6 findings
    Dependency 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Informal channel 1 · Workaround 1 · at 6 companies
  • Health, safety and environment5 findings
    Workaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product3%
  • subscription3%
Size
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 11-50 people5%
  • 201-500 people5%
  • 501-1000 people5%
  • 1000+ people3%
Region
  • United States40%
  • San Francisco, United States8%
  • France3%
  • North America3%
  • San Francisco3%
  • United Kingdom3%
Instances
The 60 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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