C.11.CRC:1 - Problem Frame

Candidates are often described by an isolated score, average benefit, frequency, local gradient, shadow price, or expected information gain. The receiving decision concerns something else: whether a finite change is worthwhile from this current configuration, over this horizon, for these affected Systems, under these resource and authority constraints.

The same candidate can contribute differently when prerequisites, complements, substitutes, bottlenecks, thresholds, congestion, implementation capability, uncertainty, reversibility, and future options differ. A good isolated characteristic can therefore coexist with a dominated configuration change, and a weak-looking local result can preserve valuable options or reveal a critical blocker.