Our Visionary constantly generates strategic pilot projects and insists on tracking them on our leadership Scorecard, but refuses to own the weekly numbers. Which seat on the Accountability Chart must own exploratory initiatives and strategic tests?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Every single number on an EOS Scorecard must have exactly one owner. If a number does not have a single seat on the Accountability Chart that owns the result, it does not belong on the Scorecard.

Visionaries love testing new concepts, launching pilot offers, and opening new channels. However, the Visionary seat is designed for ideas, big relationships, and culture, not for the week-in, week-out accountability of operational execution. If a Visionary will not own the weekly measurable, the number must either be assigned to an operational seat or removed entirely.

To assign ownership, determine where the pilot lives functionally:
- If the pilot is an experimental sales channel, the sales seat owns the weekly outreach and meeting volume.
- If it is a new operational service test, the operations seat owns delivery milestones and quality scores.
- If it is an enterprise-wide exploratory project that spans multiple seats, the Integrator must decide whether the company has the capacity to run it.

If the Integrator and leadership team agree the pilot supports the V/TO and deserves capacity, the Integrator assigns it to the appropriate department head or takes direct ownership of the weekly measurable.

If no department head has capacity and the Integrator refuses to take it on, the pilot must not go on the leadership Scorecard. Park it on the V/TO Parking Lot or the long-term Issues List. Tracking a metric that nobody owns breeds cynicism across the entire leadership team.