Segmentation · The segments · Element

The count

How many segments there are, and whether that is workable.

The part

What it is

Each segment requires distinct treatment somewhere — a message, a price, a channel or a product variant. More segments than the organisation can treat distinctly is a description.

Reducing the count is usually the improvement, not increasing it.

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.