System Atlas

Product or service design → policies and culture → governance and decision rights → org structure (+1)

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
12
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Policies and culture
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 92% of instances
    control
  4. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Software
    Core system of record
    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
Market and positioning
75%
9
Strategy and goals
75%
9
Regulatory compliance
58%
7
Security and access
33%
4
Budgeting and forecasting
25%
3
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.

  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription50%
  • product33%
  • marketplace17%
Size
  • 1000+ people33%
  • 51-200 people25%
  • 11-50 people8%
  • 201-500 people8%
Region
  • United States83%
  • Remote (founded in the United Kingdom)8%
Instances
The 12 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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