System Atlas

Strategy and goals → market and positioning → lead generation → product or service design (+4)

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
14
Of their industry
6%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 93% of instances
    money
  3. Process
    Lead generation
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 93% of instances
    information
  5. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    material
  6. Data
    Customer data
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  8. People
    Org structure
    in 93% 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 8
At least 90% have it
People2
Suppliers and partners
100%
14
Org structure
93%
13
Process2
Lead generation
100%
14
Product or service design
93%
13
Data1
Customer data
100%
14
Decisions3
Strategy and goals
100%
14
Market and positioning
93%
13
Governance and decision rights
100%
14
Variant 15
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
Process5
Quality control
64%
9
Billing and invoicing
57%
8
Hiring
50%
7
Scheduling and capacity
43%
6
Production or delivery
29%
4
Software2
Integrations
57%
8
Core system of record
43%
6
Data3
Reporting and dashboards
79%
11
Legal and contracts administration
50%
7
Cash and treasury
29%
4
Decisions5
Pricing
79%
11
Policies and culture
71%
10
Security and access
50%
7
Contracts
29%
4
Budgeting and forecasting
29%
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.

  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Reporting and dashboards1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product43%
  • marketplace29%
  • subscription29%
Size
  • 1000+ people43%
  • 11-50 people14%
  • 501-1000 people14%
  • 51-200 people7%
Region
  • United States64%
  • India7%
  • New Zealand7%
  • Singapore7%
  • Singapore / United States7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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