System Atlas

Market and positioning → pricing → product or service design → suppliers and partners (+2)

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
16
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    money
  5. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 94% 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 6
At least 90% have it
People1
Suppliers and partners
100%
16
Process1
Product or service design
100%
16
Decisions4
Market and positioning
100%
16
Pricing
100%
16
Strategy and goals
100%
16
Governance and decision rights
94%
15
Variant 19
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People2
Sales
31%
5
Customer service and support
25%
4
Process6
Lead generation
75%
12
Production or delivery
56%
9
Quality control
50%
8
Billing and invoicing
44%
7
Hiring
44%
7
Scheduling and capacity
38%
6
Software2
Integrations
50%
8
Core system of record
44%
7
Data4
Reporting and dashboards
56%
9
Legal and contracts administration
56%
9
Cash and treasury
50%
8
Data management
25%
4
Decisions5
Regulatory compliance
75%
12
Policies and culture
56%
9
Contracts
44%
7
Security and access
38%
6
Licences and registrations
25%
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 partners5 findings
    Dependency 2 · Dependency (public record) 2 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 5 companies
  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Licences and registrations2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Tacit rule 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product44%
  • subscription25%
  • marketplace19%
  • asset6%
Size
  • 1000+ people25%
  • 11-50 people19%
  • 501-1000 people13%
  • 51-200 people13%
  • 201-500 people6%
Region
  • United States69%
  • India6%
  • Italy6%
  • Northern California, United States6%
  • Singapore6%
Instances
The 16 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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