---
id: "entity-raci-d7"
type: "entity"
entityType: "tool"
canonicalName: "RACI"
aliases: ["\\\"Responsible", "Accountable", "Consulted", "Informed\\\""]
source_timestamps: ["§ How Decision-Rights Tools Are Meant to Work"]
tags: ["frameworks", "management-tools"]
related: ["concept-arci-framework", "framework-four-mistakes"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-48-decision-rights"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/07/what-companies-get-wrong-about-decision-rights"
sourceTitle: "What Companies Get Wrong About Decision Rights"
---
# RACI

**RACI** is a responsibility-assignment matrix used to clarify roles in decision-making and project execution. It stands for **Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed**:

- **Responsible** — those who do the work / provide input.
- **Accountable** — the *single* owner who makes the final call.
- **Consulted** — two-way input providers *before* the decision.
- **Informed** — kept up to date *after* the fact.

RACI is the article's central subject: it is frequently misimplemented, and the four failure modes are catalogued in [[framework-four-mistakes]]. Its reordered variant is [[concept-arci-framework]]; sibling tools are [[entity-rapid-d7]] and [[entity-dare-d7]].

*Enrichment context:* widely described in project-management guides (a representative overview lives on Atlassian's work-management site). McKinsey's *The Limits of RACI—and a Better Way to Make Decisions* offers a notable critique, arguing the framework itself is prone to unclear deciders and bureaucratic overhead — a counter-perspective to this article's 'repair, don't abandon' stance ([[contrarian-raci-as-conversation]]).


## Related across articles
- [[framework-ovis]]
- [[framework-reaching-true-agreement]]