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.
Centralised decision making cannot keep pace in VUCA conditions. Leaders must distribute authority to those closest to the work, with clear decision rights, escalation paths and shared intent.
VUCA-12 · Distributed Authority and Decision Rights →Establish policies, decision rights, and accountabilities for the proper management of data assets across the organization.
DG-1 · Data Governance Strategy →Provide a structured approach to ensure optimal structuring, placement, decision rights, and skills of human resources.
APO07 · Managed Human Resources →A data governance operating model with governance bodies, decision rights and escalation paths is established and operated.
DCAM-4.1 · Data Governance Operating Model →Heifetz DIAGNOSING THE SYSTEM. KEY DIAGNOSTIC PRACTICES: (1) GETTING ON THE BALCONY - the metaphor of stepping back from the dance floor of action to observe the system from a higher vantage point;
Heifetz-Diagnosing-Balcony-Stakeholder-Authority · Heifetz Diagnosing the System - Getting on the Balcony, Stakeholder Mapping, Formal and Informal Authority →Establish governance structures, procedures, and decision rights for sustainable procurement.
ISO20400-6.1 · Governing procurement →Questions people ask about decision rights
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