System Atlas

Market and positioning → pricing → org structure → product or service design

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

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 24 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
88
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    control
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 93% 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
Integrations
33%
29
Core system of record
30%
26
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
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Variants, couplings and instances

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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 · Tacit rule 1 · at 20 companies
  • Suppliers and partners19 findings
    Dependency 15 · Dependency (public record) 3 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 19 companies
  • Production or delivery11 findings
    Dependency 7 · Bottleneck 1 · Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 11 companies
  • Pricing8 findings
    Tacit rule 5 · Manual hand-off 3 · at 8 companies
  • Customer service and support8 findings
    Dependency 3 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 8 companies
  • Product or service design7 findings
    Tacit rule 4 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel 1 · at 7 companies
  • Customer onboarding5 findings
    Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · at 5 companies
  • Org structure5 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 5 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription22%
  • product15%
  • marketplace5%
  • agency_franchise1%
  • asset1%
  • service1%
Size
  • 1000+ people16%
  • 51-200 people9%
  • 11-50 people8%
  • 201-500 people8%
  • 501-1000 people7%
Region
  • United States50%
  • France3%
  • Germany3%
  • Japan2%
  • New Zealand2%
  • North America2%
Instances
The 88 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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