📖What it means

Whoever asked for a piece of work. By ruling, the requester IS the owner of the initiative — accountability sits with whoever asked, not with whoever happens to execute it.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Owner", "distinction": "For initiatives these are the same by ruling; elsewhere the owner is whoever is accountable for a standing artifact."}, {"term": "Doer", "distinction": "The requester asked; the doer performs."}]

📖Also called

- asker
- originator

📖Filed under

Category: people.

Service: Governance.