System Atlas

Market and positioning → product or service design → suppliers and partners → customer data (+3)

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
17
Of their industry
8%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 94% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    money
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    information
  4. Data
    Customer data
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  6. Process
    Quality control
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. People
    Org structure
    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
Product or service design
100%
17
Quality control
100%
17
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.

  • Org structure3 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Product or service design1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Strategy and goals1 finding
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Core system of record1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product53%
  • marketplace35%
  • subscription12%
Size
  • 1000+ people41%
  • 11-50 people18%
  • 201-500 people12%
  • 501-1000 people12%
Region
  • United States82%
  • France6%
  • Singapore / United States6%
Instances
The 17 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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