System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → customer service and support → policies and culture (+1)

Gates that decide who and what passes, with work flowing in and out. Security and access is a gate: 1 flow in and 2 out.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 16 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
36
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    money
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 92% of instances
    then
  3. People
    Customer service and support
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Security and access
    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
Lead generation
92%
33
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.

  • Sales12 findings
    Manual hand-off 8 · Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 1 · at 11 companies
  • Suppliers and partners12 findings
    Dependency 10 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 11 companies
  • Customer service and support9 findings
    Dependency 3 · Tacit rule 3 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · Workaround 1 · at 9 companies
  • Billing and invoicing2 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · at 2 companies
  • Regulatory compliance2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Customer onboarding2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Lead generation2 findings
    Informal channel 2 · at 2 companies
  • Security and access2 findings
    Workaround 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription14%
Size
  • 1000+ people17%
  • 51-200 people8%
  • 11-50 people3%
  • 201-500 people3%
  • 501-1000 people3%
Region
  • United States47%
  • San Francisco, United States8%
  • North America6%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL3%
  • Canada3%
  • Czech Republic3%
Instances
The 36 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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