Associations · The association set · Element

The intended

The associations the organisation is trying to build.

The part

What it is

Drawn from the positioning work, so the comparison is against a stated intention rather than a retrospective one.

Listed before the research is run, or the intended set adjusts to match the findings.

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.