Differentiation · The difference statement · Element

The durability

How long the difference is likely to hold, and what protects it.

The part

What it is

A difference anyone could copy in a quarter is a head start rather than a position, and it should be spent accordingly.

What protects it — accumulated data, relationships, scale, regulation, a hard-won capability — determines how it should be invested behind.

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.