PG016
Establish a formally documented delegated authority threshold enabling between-meeting decisions, with mandatory full-committee ratification at the next scheduled session.
CyberTRIZ analysis · Process contradiction PG016 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI
Regulations
Higher Governance Committee Oversight vs. Faster Operational Decisions
Business Context. Routing significant process decisions through a governance committee ensures broad accountability, but waiting for scheduled committee meetings can delay decisions that operational urgency requires to be made sooner.
Process TRIZ Resolution. Rather than requiring every decision to wait for the next scheduled meeting, organizations should establish a delegated authority threshold below which the committee chair can approve decisions between meetings, with full committee ratification following at the next session.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 10 (Prior Action) delegates authority for time-sensitive decisions ahead of the next scheduled meeting.
Principle 19 (Periodic Action) ratifies delegated decisions formally at the next scheduled committee session.
Principle 3 (Local Quality) reserves full committee deliberation for decisions above the delegated threshold.
Expected Outcome
Preserved committee oversight
Faster operational decisions
Reduced decision backlog
Clear delegation boundaries
Decision Indicators
Operational decisions wait weeks for the next scheduled committee meeting.
No delegated authority exists for time-sensitive decisions.
Business urgency is repeatedly overridden by committee scheduling.
Decisions are made outside governance to avoid delay.
Committee meetings are dominated by decisions that could have been delegated.
If several of these indicators are present, the contradiction is likely active and the Process TRIZ resolution above should be evaluated.