System Atlas

Product or service design → strategy and goals

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
95
Of their industry
50%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    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
Process1
Product or service design
100%
95
Decisions1
Strategy and goals
100%
95
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.

  • Governance and decision rights3 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer data1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Org structure1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product12%
  • subscription7%
  • marketplace5%
  • service1%
Size
  • 1000+ people15%
  • 11-50 people3%
  • 501-1000 people3%
  • 201-500 people2%
  • 51-200 people2%
  • 1-10 people1%
Region
  • United States89%
  • France1%
  • Japan1%
  • New Zealand1%
  • Russia1%
  • Singapore / United States1%
Instances
The 95 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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