Channel conflict · The boundaries · Element

The transitions

What happens when a customer crosses a boundary.

The part

What it is

A customer growing out of the partner segment into direct coverage is a common and badly handled situation.

Without a rule, the partner loses a customer they developed, which damages the relationship more than the revenue justifies.

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.