Decision Maker

What this is about

The classic delay in corporate work has one shape: three rounds with the project team, then the head of marketing sees the film for the first time and wants a different opening. Finding the mandate early prevents it, and one question does the job — who signs off a change request that costs money? Whoever that is should see the concept and the first cut, not only the final version. When the mandate genuinely sits at board level, ask for a fixed slot in that calendar during pre-production and plan the review dates around it.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

In planning terms, that means:

• One question finds them: who signs a change request that costs money?
• Bring the mandate into the concept review, not only into the final approval
• Approval from someone without the mandate is not approval, it is a well-meant opinion

With TillyGen

TillyGen presents scope, schedule and cost in one view — the level at which a decision maker can approve in a single meeting.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.