{"slug":"enable-decisions-and-escalation","name":"Enable Decisions and Escalation","family":"Manager System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Move consequential operating questions to timely, evidence-based decisions through explicit authority, participation, escalation, fallback, communication, and review.","purpose":"Prevent ambiguity, repeated discussion, authority bottlenecks, silent workarounds, and late surprises from becoming the company’s decision system.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Frame the decision question","purpose":"Turn a concern or stalled conversation into a bounded decision."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Resolve authority and participation","purpose":"Place the decision with the lowest capable authorized owner and the right contributors."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Assemble sufficient decision evidence","purpose":"Reduce consequential uncertainty without turning analysis into indefinite delay."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Form options and consequences","purpose":"Make real alternatives and their system effects comparable."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Decide and record","purpose":"Convert evidence and authority into an explicit state."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Communicate and hand off implementation","purpose":"Make the decision real across affected work and connected processes."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Review outcome and improve decision flow","purpose":"Test the decision and the mechanism rather than merely closing the record."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Run the Team Operating Cadence","processSlug":"run-team-operating-cadence","trigger":"A material decision requires focused work or authority beyond ordinary cadence."},{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Manage Team Capacity and Priorities","processSlug":"manage-team-capacity-and-priorities","trigger":"A required tradeoff exceeds authority or crosses an escalation threshold."},{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Establish the Manager Operating Role","processSlug":"establish-manager-operating-role","trigger":"The decision is framed and authority is resolved."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Run the Team Operating Cadence","processSlug":"run-team-operating-cadence","trigger":"The decision affects team work or cadence."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Review Manager-System Health","processSlug":"review-manager-system-health","trigger":"The manager-system review point or material pattern occurs."}],"plannedConnections":[],"measures":[{"name":"Decision operating effect","definition":"Structured comparison of intended outcome, implementation, assumptions, side effects, context, and guardrails; not outcome alone as proof of decision quality.","cadence":"At the assigned review trigger"},{"name":"Decision control completeness","definition":"Material decisions satisfying required fields divided by all completed material decisions.","cadence":"At decision closure"},{"name":"Decision response and flow time","definition":"Elapsed time from accepted brief to authorized state, separated by authority, evidence, participation, and owner waits.","cadence":"Weekly or monthly"},{"name":"Controlled decision-method use","definition":"Applicable material decisions linked to the active method divided by all applicable material decisions.","cadence":"Monthly or quarterly"},{"name":"Decision-system exception pattern","definition":"Exceptions by decision type, level, interface, severity, cause, age, and disposition.","cadence":"Quarterly"},{"name":"Voice, expertise, safety, quality, ethics, privacy, and retaliation guardrail","definition":"Context-specific qualified review of participation, dissent, escalation, overrides, access, outcomes, and participant feedback; not a causal or legal conclusion.","cadence":"At every formal review and material signal"}]}