the decider
The term has long been recognized and adopted in legal, management, educational, medical, computer science and several other technical fields, to signify a person or thing that is assigned the responsibility of taking decisions.
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A study from many years ago underscored an interesting phenomenon: While the majority of car purchases were made by men, the driving influence (forgive the pun) over which car to buy was very heavily premised upon, or completely decided by, his female counterpart.
(Jared Kohn, Who’s the Decider?: Influencer Marketing in a Poor Economy, © 2013 Talent Zoo)
Decider – the person or group that actually says this is the product we want …
(Stanford: Marketing Strategy)
Pianalto directed the audience to a short video about Bernanke, which portrayed the Chairman as a leader and activist – a decider with extraordinary expertise and acumen fit for the task, a man who is bold and creative, and whose raison d’être is to design and implement solutions to fend off the ravages of the current era of deleveraging and thereby better the lives of the American people.
(Tony Crescenzi: 'Ben Bernanke: The Decider,' ©2013, PIMCO)
… and when it came to determining what should be written on their whiteboard, this person usually functioned as the Decider – the person who determined what would be written on the group's white board. Sometimes the Decider controlled this process by writing the whiteboard himself, and other times he directed some other student who was acting as Scribe for the group, what to write.
(Richard A. Lesh et al., Ed., "Modeling Students' Mathematical Modeling Competencies: ICTMA 13," p.348)
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