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Building a Culture of Accountability

The Center For Leadership Studies

Consider this (simplified) example: Executive Assistant Ryan is responsible for compiling results for his organization’s monthly sales reports for VP of Sales Emily. Many organizations use a “RACI” for this. While Ryan must complete the task, he is certainly not accountable for the results. Set clear expectations.

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Four Do’s and Don’ts for Leading Remote Teams

The Center For Leadership Studies

Suggest that team meetings, for example, will happen on Mondays every week, but rotate through the time zones so that everyone both gets up early and stays up late occasionally. For each item, use a RACI chart to identify who will be responsible, accountable, consulted and informed.

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Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 27 – Performance Measures and Thresholds Aligned with Regulatory Standards

Strategy Driven

Examples of regulatory requirements governing ongoing, dynamic operations include: The text above is only a small portion of this article. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 23 – RACI Matrix. Ongoing compliance with these regulations is better assessed through the performance of periodic self-assessments.

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How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

At one Fortune 1000 company, for example, “flame wars” broke out between customer support units, desperate to respond faster to customer complaints, and the technical design group, equally desperate to avoid ad hoc fixes. That transformed the RACI decision rights template. This tension drives my clients mad. Accountable.

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Manage The Challenges of Working In a Matrix

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Set an example and act in ways that encourage collaboration across boundaries. Create a RACI chart. Create a decision-making model that identifies who will make which kinds of decisions (similar to the RACI chart – in fact this will be easier to do if you have created a RACI chart). Make sure your meetings are purposeful.

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To Hold Someone Accountable, First Define What Accountable Means

Harvard Business Review

As prescribed in the commonly used responsibility models — RACI, RAPID, and the others — accountability should fall to one (and only one) person per item, even if the work involved requires input and contributions from others. Consider this example. ” But what did Paul mean?

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Three Innovation Lessons From India's Titan Watches

Harvard Business Review

For example, Titan's research suggested that as few as 20% of Indian females owned watches. When targeting the youth markets, Titan ran different types of advertisements and created very different looking watches, under the racy brand name, Fastrack. Growth exploded.