Cash flow · The runway · Element

The decision points

The dates at which decisions must be taken, working backwards from the runway.

The part

What it is

Raising money, cutting costs and changing plan all have lead times. The decision point is the runway date minus that lead time.

Organisations that know their runway and not their decision points still act too late.

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.