Route to market · The trade · Element

The learning

What the organisation knows about customers from this route.

The part

What it is

Who they are, why they bought, what nearly stopped them, and whether they are satisfied. Indirect routes return little of this.

The cost compounds: an organisation whose growth comes through indirect routes learns progressively less about its own market.

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.