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.
Number of holders
How many people hold it, which is the crudest and best resilience measure.
Number shared type