One accountable owner beats five polite approvers
Apply RACI responsibility assignment matrix to a concrete operational management problem.
The move: turn the operating principle into a visible control. RACI separates participation from ownership. Responsible means doing the work. Accountable means the one person answerable for correct completion. Consulted means two-way input before the decision. Informed means one-way visibility. Operational work stalls when these roles collapse into a vague crowd of approvers. The mechanism is decision clarity: the accountable owner integrates input, resolves trade-offs, and says done. In practice, use a before-after contrast, a small score-chip set, and a common-trap callout: what was invisible before, what signal you will watch now, and what tempting shortcut would make the system…
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