Capacity planning · The capacity decision · Element

The strategy

Whether capacity is added ahead of demand or in response to it.

The part

What it is

Leading suits markets where a lost sale is lost permanently and capacity is cheap relative to margin. Lagging suits the reverse.

A stated strategy is what allows the idle capacity of a leading strategy to be defended rather than cut.

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.