System Atlas

Standard architecture: Think tanks and policy institutes

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Mostly process steps.

Standard architectureThe parts at least half of the organizations in Think tanks and policy institutes have, as many as 5 of them run all together. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
5
Of their industry
42%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Product or service design
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    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
Process1
Product or service design
100%
5
Decisions1
Strategy and goals
100%
5
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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Entropy
Where it runs rough

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

No findings recorded yet.

Seen across
Where it holds
Size
  • 51-200 people40%
Region
  • United States100%
Instances
The 5 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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