Market Timing · The window · Component

The duration

How long it is expected to last, and what closes it — because an opening with no estimated duration is treated as permanent.

The deliverable

What it is

Every window closes. Estimating when converts urgency from a feeling into a number that can be compared with the organisation’s own lead time.

Windows close faster than they open, because the response to a visible opening is a competitive one and competitors move together.

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What it is made of

Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.

  1. The estimate

    How long the window lasts.

    3 attributes: Expected duration · Reason · Confidence

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  2. The closers

    What would close it.

    3 attributes: Closer · Likelihood · How fast

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  3. The remaining

    How much of it is left.

    3 attributes: Remaining · Consumed by deciding · Assessed

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Deliberation time is window time. Say so explicitly to whoever is deliberating.