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Executive Governance Readiness Checklist

12 Questions to Test Whether Your Digital Systems Are Governance-Legible

A structured executive self-review. No scoring. No maturity grade. No certification.

What This Checklist Is For

Governance exposure in digital systems can accumulate before it becomes visible in reporting, incidents, or regulatory inquiry. This checklist helps leadership identify where accountability, evidence, ownership, or visibility may be assumed rather than confirmed.

Use it individually or as a structured leadership discussion. Responses are intentionally limited to Yes, Partly, No, or Unknown.

The 12 Governance Areas

  • Accountability ownership

  • Cross-system responsibility

  • Identity continuity

  • Consent-state visibility

  • Signal and evidence traceability

  • Third-party dependencies

  • Signal meaning consistency

  • Decision traceability

  • Governance visibility

  • Reviewability

  • Executive confidence

  • Reconstructing past conditions

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This resource is intended for general governance discussion and does not constitute legal advice, compliance certification, audit assurance, or a formal Michvi assessment.

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