System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → customer data → org structure (+1)

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
28
Of their industry
13%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. Data
    Customer data
    in 93% of instances
    work
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    money
  5. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    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
Market and positioning
100%
28
Governance and decision rights
100%
28
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 partners4 findings
    Dependency (public record) 3 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 4 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Account management1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Product or service design1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product46%
  • marketplace29%
  • subscription18%
  • service4%
Size
  • 1000+ people50%
  • 11-50 people11%
  • 501-1000 people11%
  • 201-500 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
Region
  • United States75%
  • China7%
  • France4%
  • India4%
  • Norway4%
  • Singapore / United States4%
Instances
The 28 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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