System Atlas

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

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
20
Of their industry
5%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    control
  2. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 90% of instances
    material
  4. Data
    Customer data
    in 100% of instances
    then
  5. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances
    then
  6. Decisions
    Governance and decision rights
    in 100% of instances
    control
  7. People
    Org structure
    in 95% 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
People2
Suppliers and partners
90%
18
Org structure
95%
19
Process1
Product or service design
100%
20
Data1
Customer data
100%
20
Decisions3
Pricing
100%
20
Strategy and goals
100%
20
Governance and decision rights
100%
20
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.

  • Suppliers and partners3 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 3 companies
  • Scheduling and capacity2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 2 · at 2 companies
  • Governance and decision rights2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Tacit rule (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Org structure2 findings
    Bottleneck (public record) 1 · Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Account management1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer data1 finding
    Informal channel (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Integrations1 finding
    Dependency (public record) 1 · at 1 company
  • Pricing1 finding
    Workaround (public record) 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product45%
  • subscription35%
  • marketplace20%
Size
  • 1000+ people25%
  • 11-50 people20%
  • 51-200 people15%
  • 501-1000 people10%
  • 201-500 people5%
Region
  • United States80%
  • India5%
  • New Zealand5%
  • Singapore5%
Instances
The 20 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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