System Atlas

Org structure → hiring → market and positioning → product or service design

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

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
39
Of their industry
38%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. People
    Org structure
    in 92% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  4. 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
Suppliers and partners
69%
27
Sales
59%
23
Customer service and support
46%
18
Account management
26%
10
Site and operations engineers
21%
8
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 partners12 findings
    Dependency 10 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 12 companies
  • Sales7 findings
    Dependency 3 · Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 7 companies
  • Production or delivery5 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
  • Product or service design4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 3 companies
  • Uptime and incident response2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product21%
  • marketplace13%
  • subscription8%
  • service3%
Size
  • 1000+ people26%
  • 201-500 people10%
  • 11-50 people5%
  • 501-1000 people5%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States56%
  • San Francisco, United States8%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL3%
  • Canada3%
  • China3%
  • Germany / United States3%
Instances
The 39 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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