The profile · The decision · Element
The process
How the decision is actually made.
The part
What it is
Sequential approvals, a committee, or one person consulting others. Each requires different timing and different material.
The elapsed time of the process is what makes a sales forecast realistic or fictional.
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.