Can we close the AOP by the December board meeting?
This is your statement to frame — edit it freely.
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2Who goes and figures this out?
Pick the people or functions you want in the room. Each one is asked to surface the dependencies they own — they don’t answer a question, they decompose their slice of it.
Choose one or more
Who specifically?
Initiative leads 0
No one cast yet. Tap a group above, then a name — add as many as you need. They all go out together.
Each lead receivesframed for them
From you (convener)No position askedOpens their dependency builder
Sends to no one at once. Each gets the framed ask above; your origin is marked framed & cast — it takes no position of its own.
2Your response
What happens to this question?
Answer itYou’re the right party to answer. Give your commitment on the question and, optionally, what it depends on.
Belongs to a peerAnother team or function should answer this. Nominate who — they’ll be asked to accept.
Needs a leadership callThe ask conflicts with a wider priority. Send it up for a decision, apart from your answer.
You’re already at the top of this chain — there’s no one above you to escalate to. Answer it, or hand it to a peer.
Ours to answer
Your commitment
Why? optional
Who should answer this instead?Nominate, don’t assert — the party you name is asked to accept, never silently saddled.
Who specifically?
We’ll ask them to accept. If they decline, it routes on.
Sent to them as
Send up to whom?You’re sending this up as a premise or priority call — no position is given. It’s handled apart from your answer and its dependencies.
Who specifically?
Routes up to them as a leadership call — handled apart from your answer.
suggestedHow should it be framed for them?
Sent up as
3What it depends onoptional
Anything important this answer depends on?
Sorting what you said into dependencies…
These arrive as suggested — review each to set importance and fix anything I got wrong.
Dependency #1
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Dependency Importance— how much does it matter?edit
How much does this dependency matter to your answer?
Make-or-break
Helps
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Dependency Ownership— who owns it?edit
Who can take action on this dependency?
A team
Control function
Finance, Legal, Security
A committee
exec staff, the board
A person
Customer
3rd party
Named, not here
rests on them — won't act
No owner
Which one? optional
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Dependency Requirement—edit
What do you need from the owner of this dependency?