System Atlas

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
43
Of their industry
41%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. 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
Suppliers and partners
100%
43
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 partners15 findings
    Dependency 13 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 15 companies
  • Sales5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 5 companies
  • Production or delivery3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Bottleneck 1 · at 3 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Product or service design2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Security and access2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Workaround 1 · at 2 companies
  • Customer service and support2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • marketplace19%
  • product19%
  • subscription19%
  • service2%
Size
  • 1000+ people23%
  • 201-500 people12%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 501-1000 people7%
  • 51-200 people5%
Region
  • United States60%
  • China7%
  • San Francisco, United States5%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL2%
  • London, England2%
  • New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, London2%
Instances
The 43 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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