Market readiness · The existing spending · Element

The spend

What is being spent today.

The part

What it is

On products, services, staff time or workarounds. All four are budget already allocated to the problem.

Internal effort is the largest and least visible category and is what most new products actually displace.

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.