The Executive

"The Executive Sign-Off"

Camilla, VP Operations

The efficiency gains look great on paper. She can see what they cost in practice. Signing off is the easy call. Speaking up puts her alone against the numbers.

The Story

What would you do?

Please choose:

Sign off. Above-average flagging, genuine efficiency gains, continuous improvement built in. The business case is sound.

Sign off with a formal note requiring the flagging accuracy to be reviewed at six months before further deployment.

Delay sign-off and ask the development team to present a revised edge-case protocol at the board meeting before any approval.

Put page 247 on every seat at the board meeting. Say: we are being asked whether this system is ready to deploy. My question is whether it is ready to deploy to everyone — and right now, my answer is no.

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