System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → sales → product or service design (+1)

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Within one industryHolds in Cloud, data centre and data platform providers. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
29
Of their industry
37%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 97% of instances
    information
  3. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 97% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    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
Regions and availability zones
34%
10
Data management
24%
7
Reporting and dashboards
21%
6
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.

  • Sales12 findings
    Manual hand-off 6 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 2 · at 12 companies
  • Suppliers and partners10 findings
    Dependency 10 · at 10 companies
  • Customer onboarding8 findings
    Dependency 7 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 7 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Health, safety and environment2 findings
    Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product3%
  • service3%
  • subscription3%
Size
  • 201-500 people10%
  • 501-1000 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 11-50 people3%
Region
  • United States38%
  • San Francisco, United States10%
  • North America7%
  • United Kingdom7%
  • Canada3%
  • France3%
Instances
The 29 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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