System Atlas

Hiring → market and positioning → product or service design → customer data (+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
20
Of their industry
2%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 95% of instances
    money
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Data
    Customer data
    in 90% of instances
    work
  5. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    money
  6. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 95% 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
Core system of record
40%
8
Integrations
40%
8
Communication tools
20%
4
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.

  • Org structure3 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Production or delivery1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product50%
  • marketplace25%
  • subscription15%
  • asset5%
  • service5%
Size
  • 1000+ people50%
  • 201-500 people15%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 11-50 people5%
Region
  • United States80%
  • China5%
  • France5%
  • Northern California, United States5%
  • Singapore / United States5%
Instances
The 20 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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