Fixing decision bottlenecks
Find the decisions with no clear owner or three competing ones.
— Operations & Process
Decision rights
Maps who actually decides what across the org map, scoring the clarity of each decision and naming gaps, overlaps and escalation traps.
- Operations & Process
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
2–3 weeks → ~40 minutes
For a full population, not a sample
No coding required
- Input
- Org map and role documentation
- Output
- A decision-rights map with owners per decision
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~2–3 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Decision rights for
Post-restructure clarity
Re-establish decision rights after a structural change so teams know what they own.
Governance design
Define decision rights explicitly before a new operating model goes live.
What it works from
- Org map and role documentation
- Governance, delegation or authority documents
- The decision set in scope
What you get back
- A decision-rights map with owners per decision
- Scored clarity, with gaps and overlaps named
- An aggregated view of where accountability breaks down
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Decision rights produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Scored against your criteria
Each decision is assessed against criteria you control and weight, so the same standard applies to every decision in the decision set in scope.
Rolled up to the level you report at
Individual decisions aggregate into the view a decision-maker actually looks at across the decision set in scope, without losing the underlying lines.
Decisions banded, not argued
Every decision lands in a defined band, so thresholds you set decide the outcome instead of whoever is interpreting it that day.
Governance and authority documentation pulled into one schema
Every decision is captured in the same field structure, so records drawn from different documents and sources stay comparable.
Grounded in your own context
Your strategy, standards and prior work are loaded first, so conclusions about the decision set in scope are anchored to your situation.
Anchored to your actual structure
Analysis runs against your real reporting lines and decisions rather than an assumed org shape.
Why this is expensive by hand
Slow decisions are usually an accountability problem, not a process problem. In practice it shows up as fixing decision bottlenecks: find the decisions with no clear owner or three competing ones. The value sits in the rigour, not the typing — yet the rigour is exactly what gets traded away when there is only 2–3 weeks of capacity for it.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; a decision-rights map with owners per decision comes out, alongside scored clarity, with gaps and overlaps named. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. In effect, 2–3 weeks of senior time compresses into ~40 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.
Who it's for
- Operations and continuous improvement leads
- Transformation and automation teams
- Service delivery and shared services managers
- Consultants running process diagnostics
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Decision rights exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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