Decision Rights
What is Decision Rights?
The defined authority and responsibility for making specific types of decisions within an organization's governance framework.
Terms that appear alongside decision rights
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as decision rights. The number is how many controls name both.
- governance 8 shared controls
- data governance 4 shared controls
- operating model 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern decision rights
What the standards actually require on decision rights
Requirements naming decision rights across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The enterprise sets up and maintains a quality management system that provides a standard, formal and ongoing way of managing the quality of information, so that its enabling technology and its business processes stay in line with business requirements and wit...
cobit-2019::APO11.01 · APO11.01 Establish a quality management system (QMS) →Design the operating model (centralized, decentralized, hybrid, federated) and the bodies and roles that make decisions and resolve issues: steering committee, council, office, stewards, with their decision rights and escalation paths.
dama-dmbok2-data-management-body-of-knowledge-2nd-edition::DG.2.6 · DG.2.6 Define the data governance operating framework →A policy sets the principles and decision rights for where cloud data may be stored; for each cloud data asset the catalog defines and records metadata on its storage location, its jurisdiction and its sovereignty requirements;
edm-council-cdmc-cloud-data-management-capability-framework::1.4.1 · 1.4.1 Sovereignty of data is tracked →Members of the compliance function should understand the organization's governance: what the governing body does and what top management does, the reporting lines, committees and decision rights through which compliance matters reach them, the principles of di...
iso-37303-2025::A.2.2.4 · Knowledge of organizational governance →Top management shows it leads and stands behind the SMS by making sure of twelve things: (a) a service management policy and objectives exist and fit the strategic direction;
iso-iec-20000-1-2018::5.1 · 5.1 Leadership and commitment →Three tools are offered to the governing body and to the governance and management practices around it: the principles (clause 5), the model (clause 6) and the framework (clause 7), with a table setting out for each what it is, how it is used and what it bring...
iso-iec-38500-2024::4.2 · Principles, model and framework →Questions people ask about decision rights
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