DOCA.1:4.2 - Identify a receiving use or an exploratory question

For a proposed contribution, state who or what could use it, in which situation, and what practical difference would matter. The receiving use may be the subject’s later Work, a service used by another System, an organization’s market or operating contribution, a research use, or a decision that consumes a qualified opportunity.

Keep the receiver’s useful difference separate from the subject’s desired learning, prestige, procurement, technology adoption, or internal activity. If no receiver or receiving situation can yet be named, keep that question open rather than inventing demand.

An inquiry can still start from material that someone can use or change: permitted records, a working procedure, a model or another construction. Name an available operation and a difference worth examining within the inquiry’s resources and permissions. C.40 supplies that development Method. Its result can suggest a receiving use for DOCA.2 or DOCA.3 to investigate. A useful local result can also finish the inquiry; it need not become a development opportunity.