KD-032 · Framework
Decision Register
Make blocked or consequential decisions visible with the evidence, owner, deadline, and escalation path required to move them.
- Evidence level
- Experience based
- Executive audience
- Executive sponsor, COO, program leader
- Publication status
- Published after human review
Inspect the operating model
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Text alternative and Mermaid source
Decision Register. Make blocked or consequential decisions visible with the evidence, owner, deadline, and escalation path required to move them. Business problem: Important decisions are often implicit in meeting notes, status updates, or private conversations rather than managed as operating work. Claim boundary: Experience-based operating model. It does not establish a client outcome, budget result, recovery result, or universal delivery prescription.
flowchart LR
Q[Decision required] --> O[Options and tradeoffs]
O --> E[Evidence and boundary]
E --> N[Named decision owner]
N --> D[Decision by date]
D --> A[Action or escalation]Why this matters
Important decisions are often implicit in meeting notes, status updates, or private conversations rather than managed as operating work.
Executive decision
- Record the decision statement, options, evidence, owner, decision-by date, consequence of delay, and escalation condition.
Claim boundary
Experience-based operating model. It does not establish a client outcome, budget result, recovery result, or universal delivery prescription.
Evidence summary
tko:ev-operational-intelligence-vs-reporting
Across healthcare, RachelOS, and CRE engagements, dashboards and reports describe what happened, but the decision about what to do next still depends on a person — reporting is not the same capability as operational intelligence.
Boundary: Generalized finding from cited code- and pattern-backed records. No metric.