System Atlas

Market and positioning → customer service and support

How information is recorded, decided on and fed back. Mostly data and decisions, with information fed back.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 9 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
51
Of their industry
1%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Customer service and support
    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
Invariant 2
At least 90% have it
People1
Customer service and support
100%
51
Decisions1
Market and positioning
100%
51
Variant 27
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People4
Org structure
78%
40
Sales
69%
35
Suppliers and partners
45%
23
Account management
31%
16
Process8
Hiring
76%
39
Customer onboarding
61%
31
Billing and invoicing
31%
16
Quality control
25%
13
Learning and improvement
25%
13
Proposals and quoting
24%
12
Research enterprise and sponsored programs
22%
11
Onboarding and training
22%
11
Software2
Integrations
31%
16
Inference serving
27%
14
Data2
Inventory and assets
31%
16
Data management
24%
12
Decisions11
Strategy and goals
73%
37
Pricing
65%
33
Policies and culture
65%
33
Regulatory compliance
61%
31
Security and access
55%
28
Contracts
47%
24
Governance and decision rights
45%
23
Usage pricing and metering
33%
17
Health, safety and environment
33%
17
Data protection and security assurance
31%
16
Performance and pay
24%
12
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.

  • Sales21 findings
    Manual hand-off 10 · Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 3 · Informal channel 1 · at 19 companies
  • Suppliers and partners10 findings
    Dependency 10 · at 10 companies
  • Customer service and support9 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Workaround 1 · at 8 companies
  • Health, safety and environment4 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Workaround 2 · at 4 companies
  • Quality control4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Regulatory compliance3 findings
    Dependency 3 · at 3 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Hiring3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription6%
  • service4%
  • product2%
Size
  • 1000+ people20%
  • 11-50 people4%
  • 201-500 people4%
  • 501-1000 people4%
  • 51-200 people4%
Region
  • United States31%
  • United Kingdom12%
  • Germany10%
  • North America4%
  • Russia4%
  • Sweden4%
Instances
The 51 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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