System Atlas

Product or service design → market and positioning → pricing → hiring (+2)

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

Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
42
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 90% of instances
    information
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Hiring
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Process
    Lead generation
    in 98% of instances
    information
  6. People
    Sales
    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
Sales
100%
42
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.

  • Sales19 findings
    Manual hand-off 10 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 18 companies
  • Suppliers and partners14 findings
    Dependency 14 · at 14 companies
  • Customer onboarding7 findings
    Dependency 5 · Bottleneck 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 6 companies
  • Pricing6 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 6 companies
  • Customer service and support6 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 2 · Informal channel 1 · at 6 companies
  • Hiring4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Workaround 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Billing and invoicing2 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product10%
  • subscription10%
  • asset2%
Size
  • 1000+ people10%
  • 51-200 people10%
  • 201-500 people7%
  • 501-1000 people5%
  • 11-50 people2%
Region
  • United States43%
  • San Francisco, United States10%
  • Japan5%
  • North America5%
  • Canada2%
  • Colorado, USA (headquarters); Oxfordshire, United Kingdom2%
Instances
The 42 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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