Reading their strategy · The inferred intent · Element

The assumptions

What they must believe for their behaviour to make sense.

The part

What it is

Reasoned backwards from what they do. If they are investing heavily in a segment, they believe something about it.

Where their belief conflicts with your evidence, one of you is wrong, and establishing which is worth doing carefully.

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.