System Atlas
Atlas
Constructs/Process

Market and positioning → sales → quality control → product or service design

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Process steps that hand work to each other.

Cross-industryRun by organizations in 6 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Create a free account to save Create a free account to follow
Organizations running it
11
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 91% of instances
    money
  2. People
    Sales
    in 100% of instances
    then
  3. Process
    Quality control
    in 100% of instances
    control
  4. 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
GroupsLayersEverything
Element
Share of instances
Companies
People1
Sales
100%
11
Process2
Quality control
100%
11
Product or service design
100%
11
Decisions1
Market and positioning
91%
10
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member
Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member
Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Sales3 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Pricing2 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · at 2 companies
  • Suppliers and partners2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
  • Hiring1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Market and positioning1 finding
    Tacit rule 1 · at 1 company
  • Quality control1 finding
    Bottleneck 1 · at 1 company
  • Core system of record1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • product45%
  • marketplace18%
  • service9%
Size
  • 1000+ people36%
  • 11-50 people9%
  • 201-500 people9%
Region
  • United States64%
  • China9%
  • Los Angeles, California, United States9%
  • San Francisco, CA9%
Instances
The 11 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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

See Member