Executives spend almost 40% of their time making decisions, and believe most of it is poorly used (McKinsey). This short diagnostic checks six dimensions of authority, risk, and decision governance against how your organization actually operates today, not what the policy document says it should be.
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Your governance mirror score updates live as you answer. Below the gauge you'll see how each of the five dimensions is contributing, structural currency, risk catalogue depth, tooling alignment, cross-functional visibility, and change readiness.
Greer, L., Jordan, J., and Sytch, M., What Companies Get Wrong About Decision Rights, Harvard Business Review, 2026.
McKinsey & Company, The Limits of RACI, and a Better Way to Make Decisions, and Make Faster, Better Decisions (source of the 40% statistic above), mckinsey.com.
EY and the Society for Corporate Governance, Delegation of Authority Policies Can Be Essential, ey.com, 2025.
Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise, 2026 (cited for the gap between AI adoption and AI governance maturity).
Aghion, P. and Tirole, J., The Management of Innovation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994 (the original formal-versus-real-authority distinction this framework builds on).
These sources inform the structure of the questions. Scoring, category design, and recommendations are original to this tool.
Email me at contact@buchholz-bridge-consulting.com with your score band and I'll send you a short follow-up guide tailored to your weakest dimension.