Points of difference · The accepted trade-off · Element

The cost

What the trade-off actually costs in demand.

The part

What it is

Customers lost, deals not entered, segments not served. Knowing the number makes the trade defensible rather than merely stated.

A trade-off with no measurable cost is probably not a real one.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.