Decision authority

Names the one person or body who makes the final call and owns the consequences. Not who suggested the idea, not who has to agree to it, not who carries it out. Say the name and the scope of what they may decide.

Names the one person or body who makes the final call and owns the consequences. Not who suggested the idea, not who has to agree to it, not who carries it out. Say the name and the scope of what they may decide.

Example

On the laptop monitoring plan, you write: the COO decides whether monitoring ships and which three data fields it collects. Not IT, who proposed it; not the 400 employees, who get voice. If it goes wrong, the COO answers for it.