Production · The cost per format · Element
The cost per useful month
Cost divided by how long the piece stays useful.
The part
What it is
This reverses the ranking more often than not. The format that looks expensive per piece is frequently the cheapest thing the organisation makes.
It also makes the case for refreshing rather than replacing, because a refresh extends the denominator at a fraction of the numerator.
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.
The other elements in the cost per format
The stages
The steps a piece passes through on the way out.
LearnThe loaded cost
What the format costs when everything is counted.
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