Building · The absorption check · Element

The holding

Where the competence currently lives — in people, process, systems or documentation.

The part

What it is

Competence held only in people is portable and fragile. Held in process and systems it is durable but slower to adapt.

Most durable competences are held in several forms at once, which is what makes them hard for competitors to copy.

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.