This is a perspective that transcends departments, roles, and org charts. It’s an enduring way of looking at a subscriber-focused company. Things change all the time around here. That’s natural. Priorities shift. People arrive, people leave, working groups form, projects finish. As we grow larger, we start specializing, and things by definition get more complicated. The organization may start to grow and branch out in all sorts of unexpected and unusual ways, but these eight subsystems stay the same.

