System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners

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

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
82
Of their industry
4%
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 94% of instances
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    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%
82
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 partners30 findings
    Dependency 25 · Dependency (public record) 4 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 30 companies
  • Sales14 findings
    Manual hand-off 8 · Dependency 5 · Tacit rule 1 · at 13 companies
  • Production or delivery10 findings
    Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 2 · Workaround 1 · at 10 companies
  • Governance and decision rights6 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 6 companies
  • Pricing6 findings
    Tacit rule 4 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround (public record) 1 · at 6 companies
  • Customer service and support6 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 6 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Hiring4 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product18%
  • subscription17%
  • marketplace10%
  • service2%
  • asset1%
Size
  • 1000+ people20%
  • 201-500 people11%
  • 51-200 people6%
  • 11-50 people5%
  • 501-1000 people5%
  • 1-10 people1%
Region
  • United States49%
  • France5%
  • San Francisco, United States4%
  • China2%
  • Japan2%
  • North America2%
Instances
The 82 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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