#181 | Capability Ownership: The Hard Conversation Leaders Avoid - Capability Unboxed Mini Series (powered by CIAB+) Part 5

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Fatimah Abbouchi discusses the complexities of capability ownership in organizations and the challenges leaders face in defining accountability.

Capability Unboxed Mini Series (powered by CIAB+) #5 Capabilities don’t sit neatly inside org charts. But accountability still needs to. In this episode of Capability Unboxed, Fatimah Abbouchi tackles one of the most avoided leadership questions: who actually owns a capability? Because capabilities cut across teams, functions, and governance layers, ownership rarely sits in one place. And when it isn’t clearly defined, coordination becomes informal, accountability blurs, and delivery starts r...

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Host: Fatimah Abbouchi

Topics covered

• capability ownership
• leadership
• organizational accountability
• team coordination
• business capabilities

Keywords

• capability ownership
• leadership
• accountability
• organizational structure
• business capabilities

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Organizations: CIAB+

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