Choosing what to measure · The balance · Element
The perspectives
How measures distribute across the four areas.
The part
What it is
Financial, customer, process and capability. Most sets are heavily financial, because those measures already exist and are already trusted.
A visible imbalance is a finding rather than a rule violation, and correcting it is a judgement.
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.