Partner selection · The partnership case · Element

The alternatives

Building, buying, hiring or doing without, each costed against the partnership.

The part

What it is

Partnering is frequently chosen because it requires no capital and no headcount approval, which are procedural advantages rather than strategic ones.

The alternative that is almost never costed is doing without, and it is sometimes the right answer.

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.