System Atlas

Market and positioning → production or delivery → health, safety and environment → learning and improvement

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

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
13
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 92% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Health, safety and environment
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Learning and improvement
    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
Invariant 4
At least 90% have it
Process2
Production or delivery
92%
12
Learning and improvement
100%
13
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
13
Health, safety and environment
100%
13
Variant 38
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People5
Org structure
77%
10
Customer service and support
69%
9
Sales
62%
8
Suppliers and partners
38%
5
Account management
23%
3
Process11
Lead generation
69%
9
Hiring
69%
9
Quality control
62%
8
Onboarding and training
54%
7
Customer onboarding
46%
6
Logistics and fulfilment
38%
5
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
31%
4
Billing and invoicing
31%
4
Uptime and incidents
23%
3
Evaluation and red-teaming
23%
3
Management cadence
23%
3
Software5
Inference serving
54%
7
Integrations
38%
5
Communication tools
31%
4
Subscription billing
23%
3
Core system of record
23%
3
Data4
Data management
38%
5
Training data acquisition and licensing
31%
4
Reporting and dashboards
31%
4
Cash and treasury
23%
3
Decisions13
Policies and culture
77%
10
Strategy and goals
77%
10
Regulatory compliance
69%
9
Pricing
62%
8
Usage pricing and metering
46%
6
Governance and decision rights
46%
6
Data protection and security assurance
38%
5
Contracts
31%
4
Model release and versioning
31%
4
Performance and pay
31%
4
Usage policies and model documentation
31%
4
Budgeting and forecasting
23%
3
Security and access
23%
3
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.

  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 4 companies
  • Sales4 findings
    Bottleneck 2 · Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
  • Usage policies and model documentation3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Budgeting and forecasting2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product8%
  • service8%
  • subscription8%
Size
  • 1000+ people8%
  • 11-50 people8%
  • 201-500 people8%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 51-200 people8%
Region
  • United States38%
  • Canada8%
  • France8%
  • Germany / United States8%
  • Japan8%
  • North America8%
Instances
The 13 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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