Decision ownership
Every consequential decision has a named accountable owner.
BIM Playbook
The BIM Leadership Decision & Governance Playbook is the organization's documented operating model for consequential executive decisions.
It translates governance requirements into clear decision ownership, authority, escalation, documentation, and evidence expectations.
The operational output
The output of the governance process — not the entire product
The Playbook is the operational output of the Cybantage governance process. It is produced by evaluating the organization's own documentation, resolving conflicts and gaps, and turning what is approved into one governed decision model.
The BIM methodology defines the discipline. The Cybantage platform maintains and validates the model. The Playbook is what leadership holds, reviews, and uses.
BIM™ Playbook
Leadership Decision & Governance Playbook
Significant Business Event edition · Governed organizational document
Authority
Who can decide
Ownership
Who is responsible
Obligations
What the organization must do
Evidence
What supports the decision
Timing
When it has to happen
Escalation
Who gets pulled in
Communication
Who can say what
Documentation
What gets recorded
Accountability
Who owns the outcome
What the Playbook contains
Eight expectations, established before the decision
Organization-specific, built from approved sources, and kept current by the governance process.
Alternates
Decision rights remain clear when the primary executive is unavailable.
Authority
What each decision-maker may decide, commit, and approve.
Escalation
Defined paths into executive and board governance when scope or stakes change.
Applicable requirements
Insurance, legal, regulatory, contractual, and internal requirements stay connected to the decisions they constrain.
Required evidence
What must be known, recorded, and preserved before and during the decision.
Documentation requirements
How the decision and its rationale are recorded for later defense.
Communication responsibilities
Approval and sequencing for customers, employees, directors, regulators, markets, and the public.
How it fits together
Methodology, platform, and the product your organization actually uses
Three layers, in order. Each one exists because of the layer above it.
BIM
The methodology
How consequential business decisions are governed: authority, obligations, evidence, accountability.
Cybantage
The Executive Decision Governance Platform
Where governed organization knowledge is built, reviewed, and maintained over time.
BIM Playbook
The organization-specific operating product
Your authority, owners, obligations, communications, and evidence requirements—usable under pressure.
A sample section
What a Playbook section looks like
Operational Continuity & Shutdown Authority, shown as an illustrative example of the structure a Playbook section uses.
Illustrative Playbook section
Operational Continuity & Shutdown Authority
Example content only. In practice every line is generated from your organization’s approved information—and shown as a gap where nothing has been approved.
- Primary decision owner
- Chief Operating Officer
- Alternate
- Chief Executive Officer
- Activation trigger
- Confirmed compromise affecting production systems, or a containment action that would halt order fulfilment.
- Authority
- COO may suspend affected operations without prior approval. Enterprise-wide shutdown requires CEO authorization.
- Required consultation
- General Counsel, CISO, CFO, and the operations lead for the affected site.
- Insurance dependency
- Carrier notice required before engaging non-panel vendors. Carrier consent required for extraordinary recovery spend.
- Contract implications
- Two customer agreements carry service-availability commitments and defined notice windows.
- Evidence
- What was known, what remained unknown, and what was contested at the time of the decision.
- Communication approval
- No customer or public statement about the shutdown without General Counsel and Communications approval.
- Decision record requirement
- Owner, authority basis, consultation, rationale, and timestamp recorded in the event record.
What the Playbook answers
Questions leadership should not meet for the first time during the incident
Who can stop operations?
Who can authorize emergency spending?
What requires insurer notice or consent?
Who determines whether notification obligations exist?
Who approves external communications?
When does the board become involved?
What evidence and rationale must be retained?
Who owns corrective action after technical recovery?
What changes
Before and after implementation
The same question, answered two very different ways.
Before
“Who can make this decision?”
The question is raised during the incident, answered by whoever is in the room, and reconstructed afterwards from memory.
After implementation
- Primary: Chief Operating Officer.
- Alternate: Chief Executive Officer.
- General Counsel consultation required.
- CFO approval required above the defined spend threshold.
- Decision documented in the event record.
Illustrative. The actual owners, thresholds, and obligations come from your approved organization knowledge.
The boundary
A connective framework, not another response plan
What BIM is
- A governance and decision framework for leadership
- A map of authority, ownership, and escalation
- A method for separating facts from assumptions
- A record of decisions, evidence, and rationale
- A connector across legal, insurance, finance, operations, and communications
- A governed decision posture for the business layer
What BIM is not
- A replacement for incident response or disaster recovery
- A substitute for legal counsel or insurer direction
- A crisis communications or public relations program
- A cybersecurity control framework or audit standard
- A tool that makes decisions on behalf of executives
- A binder that is written once and never exercised
Documents
See a Playbook section and the platform that maintains it
What the Playbook contains, an illustrative Playbook section—Operational Continuity & Shutdown Authority—and the Cybantage walkthrough it lives inside.
Next step
Build the Playbook before leadership needs it.
Establish the organization-specific ownership, authority, escalation, documentation, and evidence expectations leadership will use under pressure.