{
  "objectName": "Decision Rights Matrix",
  "objectType": "LPM Knowledge Object",
  "version": "1.0",
  "lastReviewedDate": "2026-06-23",
  "ownerOfArtifact": "LPM / Lapemo",
  "lpmLayer": "Decision Architecture",
  "purpose": "Define accountable authority, consultation, approval, evidence, escalation, and AI boundaries for recurring enterprise decisions.",
  "intendedAudience": [
    "Executives",
    "Transformation leaders",
    "Product leaders",
    "Operations leaders",
    "Technology leaders",
    "Risk and governance teams",
    "AI program owners"
  ],
  "requiredFields": [
    {
      "name": "decisionDomain",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "decisionType",
      "type": "enum",
      "values": [
        "strategic",
        "operating",
        "product",
        "technology",
        "data",
        "risk",
        "ai",
        "people",
        "exception"
      ],
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "companyProfile",
      "type": "enum",
      "values": [
        "500_plus",
        "5000_plus",
        "10000_plus"
      ],
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "decisionOwner",
      "type": "role",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "decisionMaker",
      "type": "role",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "approver",
      "type": "role",
      "required": "conditional"
    },
    {
      "name": "consultedRoles",
      "type": "role[]",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "informedRoles",
      "type": "role[]",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "evidenceRequired",
      "type": "string[]",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "decisionSla",
      "type": "duration",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "escalationTrigger",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "aiInvolvement",
      "type": "enum",
      "values": [
        "none",
        "ai_assisted",
        "ai_recommended",
        "ai_executed_with_approval",
        "ai_executed_with_monitoring"
      ],
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "systemOfRecord",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "reviewCadence",
      "type": "enum",
      "values": [
        "monthly",
        "quarterly",
        "semiannual",
        "annual",
        "event_driven"
      ],
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "version",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true
    }
  ],
  "optionalFields": [
    "financialThreshold",
    "riskTier",
    "customerImpact",
    "regulatoryImpact",
    "dataClassification",
    "decisionRationale",
    "relatedPolicy",
    "relatedSystem",
    "relatedWorkflow",
    "changeLog"
  ],
  "scoringLogic": {
    "dimensions": [
      "clarity",
      "authority",
      "evidence",
      "latency",
      "escalation",
      "aiBoundary"
    ],
    "scale": {
      "0": "missing",
      "1": "informal",
      "2": "partially defined",
      "3": "documented and operational",
      "4": "governed and AI-ready"
    },
    "readinessScore": "average(clarity, authority, evidence, latency, escalation, aiBoundary)",
    "riskFlagRules": [
      "flag high_ai_risk when readinessScore < 3 and aiInvolvement in [ai_recommended, ai_executed_with_approval, ai_executed_with_monitoring]",
      "flag missing_owner when decisionOwner is empty",
      "flag approval_conflict when decisionMaker equals consultedRole without explicit approval rule",
      "flag stale_review when lastReviewedDate exceeds reviewCadence"
    ]
  },
  "profiles": {
    "500_plus": {
      "designPrinciple": "Remove founder and executive bottlenecks without creating bureaucracy.",
      "primaryRisk": "Informal authority and personality-driven decisions.",
      "recommendedPattern": "Lightweight decision thresholds, named owners, clear escalation triggers, monthly review until stable."
    },
    "5000_plus": {
      "designPrinciple": "Create minimum viable governance across functions, portfolios, systems, and risk paths.",
      "primaryRisk": "Functional maturity with cross-functional authority gaps.",
      "recommendedPattern": "Decision tiers, shared evidence standards, system-of-record linkage, AI boundary review during intake."
    },
    "10000_plus": {
      "designPrinciple": "Centralize standards and decentralize execution within thresholds.",
      "primaryRisk": "Central bottlenecks or local fragmentation at enterprise scale.",
      "recommendedPattern": "Federated decision rights, machine-readable decision records, global standards, local execution authority, risk-based escalation."
    }
  },
  "aiPrompts": [
    "Classify the following decision inventory into LPM decision domains, decision types, company profile, and AI involvement level.",
    "Draft a Decision Rights Matrix using the provided org notes, policy excerpts, system inventory, and operating model goals.",
    "Identify missing decision owners, unclear approvers, weak evidence requirements, and unresolved escalation paths.",
    "Score each decision area from 0 to 4 across clarity, authority, evidence, latency, escalation, and AI boundary readiness.",
    "Recommend what must change before this decision path is safe for AI-assisted or agentic execution."
  ],
  "validationRules": [
    {
      "rule": "Every decision area must have one accountable decision owner.",
      "severity": "critical"
    },
    {
      "rule": "Decision maker and approver must be distinct unless the threshold explicitly allows the same role.",
      "severity": "warning"
    },
    {
      "rule": "Evidence required must not be empty.",
      "severity": "critical"
    },
    {
      "rule": "AI involvement above ai_assisted requires an AI boundary and human accountability rule.",
      "severity": "critical"
    },
    {
      "rule": "System of record must be identified for decision rationale and approval trail.",
      "severity": "critical"
    },
    {
      "rule": "Review cadence or event-driven trigger must be present.",
      "severity": "warning"
    }
  ],
  "mappingRules": [
    {
      "sourceField": "decisionDomain",
      "targetModule": "Decision Architecture"
    },
    {
      "sourceField": "decisionOwner",
      "targetModule": "Ownership Map"
    },
    {
      "sourceField": "evidenceRequired",
      "targetModule": "Information Ecology"
    },
    {
      "sourceField": "systemOfRecord",
      "targetModule": "Platform Structure"
    },
    {
      "sourceField": "escalationTrigger",
      "targetModule": "Governance Architecture"
    },
    {
      "sourceField": "aiInvolvement",
      "targetModule": "AI Amplification"
    },
    {
      "sourceField": "decisionSla",
      "targetModule": "Communication Architecture"
    }
  ],
  "renderTargets": [
    "docx",
    "pdf",
    "markdown",
    "json",
    "csv",
    "website_page",
    "lapemo_in_app_workflow"
  ],
  "changeLog": [
    {
      "version": "1.0",
      "date": "2026-06-23",
      "owner": "LPM / Lapemo",
      "change": "Initial reusable Decision Rights Matrix knowledge object."
    }
  ]
}