System Atlas

Market and positioning → customer service and support → suppliers and partners → 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 18 industries. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
46
Of their industry
0%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 93% of instances
    then
  2. People
    Customer service and support
    in 100% of instances
    information
  3. People
    Suppliers and partners
    in 100% of instances
    material
  4. Process
    Product or service design
    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
Integrations
43%
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 partners19 findings
    Dependency 17 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · Workaround 1 · at 18 companies
  • Sales14 findings
    Manual hand-off 8 · Dependency 4 · Bottleneck 1 · Tacit rule 1 · at 13 companies
  • Customer service and support10 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Dependency 2 · Informal channel 2 · Tacit rule 2 · Workaround 1 · at 9 companies
  • Pricing6 findings
    Manual hand-off 3 · Tacit rule 3 · at 6 companies
  • Hiring4 findings
    Dependency 2 · Informal channel 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer onboarding3 findings
    Dependency 2 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 3 companies
  • Billing and invoicing2 findings
    Manual hand-off 2 · at 2 companies
  • Regulatory compliance2 findings
    Dependency 2 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription13%
  • product7%
  • service2%
Size
  • 1000+ people9%
  • 11-50 people7%
  • 51-200 people7%
  • 201-500 people2%
  • 501-1000 people2%
Region
  • United States39%
  • France7%
  • San Francisco, United States7%
  • North America4%
  • Australia2%
  • Bay Area, CA and Amsterdam, NL2%
Instances
The 46 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

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