System Atlas

Pricing → product or service design

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

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
38
Of their industry
54%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    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
Customer data
53%
20
Reporting and dashboards
37%
14
Regions and availability zones
34%
13
Legal and contracts administration
29%
11
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 partners8 findings
    Dependency 7 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 8 companies
  • Sales4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 2 · at 4 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Informal channel 2 · Dependency 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Uptime and incident response2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription26%
  • product16%
  • marketplace8%
  • service3%
Size
  • 1000+ people18%
  • 11-50 people8%
  • 501-1000 people8%
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 201-500 people5%
Region
  • United States63%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL3%
  • France3%
  • London, England3%
  • New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, London3%
Instances
The 38 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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