System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → production or delivery → org structure (+1)

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
11
Of their industry
16%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 91% of instances
    work
  3. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 91% of instances
    then
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. 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
Product or service design
91%
10
Production or delivery
91%
10
Learning and improvement
100%
11
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.

  • Usage policies and model documentation3 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 2 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer service and support2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription18%
Size
  • 201-500 people18%
  • 1000+ people9%
  • 51-200 people9%
Region
  • United States64%
  • France9%
  • Japan9%
  • North America9%
  • San Francisco, United States9%
Instances
The 11 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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