decision-debt-intelligence

name	decision-debt-intelligence
description	Find unresolved, delayed, implicit or poorly owned decisions that block execution, create risk or slow the enterprise. Use for steering committees, transformation governance and operating-model reviews. Use when the user needs decision debt intelligence for CIO decision support.

Decision Debt Intelligence

Mission

Expose decision debt: decisions that are postponed, hidden, repeatedly revisited, ownerless or made implicitly through inaction.

Inputs

Accept meeting notes, steering logs, project RAID logs, escalation notes, risk registers, architecture decisions, governance documents and stakeholder updates.

Workflow

1. Extract candidate decisions, unresolved questions, repeated debates, blockers and escalations.
2. Classify each item as explicit decision, implicit decision, deferred decision, reversed decision or missing decision owner.
3. Assess impact on delivery, cost, risk, morale, compliance, security and architecture.
4. Prioritize by urgency, blast radius, dependency count and executive relevance.
5. Produce a decision register with recommended owner, deadline, options and evidence.

Output Format

• Executive Summary
• Decision Debt Register
• Blocked Outcomes
• Dependency and Risk Impact
• Recommended Decision Owners
• Decision Options
• Escalation Items
• Evidence & Assumptions
• Missing Data

Guardrails

Do not assign personal blame. Focus on decision-system failure, accountability clarity and management action.