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 10 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
67
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
Inventory and assets
39%
26
Data management
21%
14
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.

  • Sales24 findings
    Manual hand-off 10 · Dependency 9 · Bottleneck 4 · Informal channel 1 · at 22 companies
  • Suppliers and partners11 findings
    Dependency 11 · at 11 companies
  • Customer service and support10 findings
    Dependency 4 · Tacit rule 3 · Bottleneck 1 · Informal channel 1 · Workaround 1 · at 9 companies
  • Hiring9 findings
    Informal channel 3 · Manual hand-off 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 5 companies
  • Health, safety and environment7 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Workaround 2 · Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 6 companies
  • Core system of record5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Workaround 1 · at 5 companies
  • Billing and invoicing4 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Regulatory compliance4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product4%
  • subscription4%
  • service3%
  • distribution1%
Size
  • 1000+ people27%
  • 11-50 people3%
  • 201-500 people3%
  • 501-1000 people3%
  • 51-200 people3%
Region
  • United States25%
  • Germany9%
  • United Kingdom9%
  • Sweden7%
  • France6%
  • North America3%
Instances
The 67 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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