4. Construct different directions with their supports

Build materially different possibilities for addressing the problem or realizing the contribution. Change the intervention, the work performed, the distribution of contributions, the support, the timing or the proposed result where those differences matter. Distinguish a different result premise from a different way of obtaining one result.

A direction should say more than “train,” “buy,” “automate” or “hire.” State the prospective contribution, the holder change if any, necessary access and support, protected conditions and the transition that would have to become possible. One option may develop a capability; another may make an existing capability usable through better access; a third may obtain a qualified external contribution.

Use PSD.8 for the live alternative-construction question. Use direct HCD, OCE, AI, target-domain and other results for what the proposed changes would require. After one result/use/acceptance premise is stable, OCE.8 can compare whole organizational obtaining arrangements. Before that point, forcing every lead into the same-result comparison would conceal the still-open opportunity question.

Retain the obtaining baseline, a smaller repair, a staged direction or no change when they genuinely answer the inquiry. Do not count a fragment as a complete direction merely to populate a table, and do not discard a potentially useful contribution only because its supporting arrangement is not yet designed.