CGOV.1:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when a request such as “get the owners’ approval”, “the group will guarantee it”, or “improve governance” leaves unclear whose act is needed and which rules make it effective. It helps a director, company secretary, owner, executive or adviser turn that request into a corporate matter that the relevant participants can decide or investigate.

Begin with the proposed action and the corporation whose rights, obligations or arrangements it would change. An existing, adequate account can be used directly. The first result is a question such as “Who may authorize this subsidiary’s guarantee, under its constitution and the applicable law, before the proposed signing?” A familiar routine purchase within an established delegation can go straight to its ordinary operating method.