System Atlas

Market and positioning → pricing → quality control → governance and decision rights (+2)

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

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
15
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 93% of instances
    money
  2. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Quality control
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  5. People
    Org structure
    in 100% of instances
    control
  6. Process
    Product or service design
    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
Org structure
100%
15
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
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Communication tools1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Governance and decision rights1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Product or service design1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Quality control1 finding
    Bottleneck 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product60%
  • subscription20%
  • marketplace13%
Size
  • 1000+ people33%
  • 11-50 people20%
  • 501-1000 people13%
  • 201-500 people7%
Region
  • United States87%
  • France7%
Instances
The 15 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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