System Atlas

Market and positioning → lead generation → pricing → product or service design (+4)

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

Within one industryHolds in Cloud, data centre and data platform providers. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
14
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Process
    Lead generation
    in 93% of instances
    then
  3. Decisions
    Pricing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    in 93% of instances
    work
  5. Process
    Production or delivery
    in 93% of instances
    then
  6. Data
    Regions and availability zones
    in 100% of instances
    then
  7. Software
    Usage metering and billing
    in 100% of instances
    then
  8. Decisions
    Security and access
    in 93% 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
71%
10
Sales
64%
9
Suppliers and partners
50%
7
Site and operations engineers
50%
7
Account management
21%
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.

  • Sales4 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 1 · at 4 companies
  • Suppliers and partners4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 2 companies
  • Uptime and incident response2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
  • Quality control2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Billing and invoicing1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Contracts1 finding
    Dependency 1 · at 1 company
  • Customer onboarding1 finding
    Manual hand-off 1 · at 1 company
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription14%
  • service7%
Size
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 501-1000 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
Region
  • United States36%
  • France14%
  • London, England7%
  • New York, Stockholm, San Francisco, London7%
  • San Francisco, United States7%
  • Singapore7%
Instances
The 14 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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