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RACI Matrix

Fifteen program deliverables against eight functions. ⚠ Exactly one Accountable per row — the generator refuses to write this page otherwise, because two Accountables means nobody is. Prose for every function, and what each explicitly does not own, is in Artifact 32; the two are generated from one source so they cannot disagree.

R Responsible — does the work   A Accountable — answers for the outcome, exactly one per row   C Consulted — asked before the decision   I Informed — told after it

RefDeliverableIntegration Management OfficeClaims & Core AdministrationData & EMPIApplication IntegrationCloud & InfrastructureBusiness OperationsCorporate & ControlVendor & Contract Management
D-01Integration Charter and program planAII···C·
D-02Application disposition decisionsCARRC···
D-03Vendor and contract dispositionI···C·CA
D-04Vendor SOWs and BAAsC·····AR
D-05Member identity resolutionIRAC····
D-06Clerical review queue worked to closureI·A··C··
D-07Integration layer and interfaces·RRAC···
D-08Cloud landing zone and migration wavesI··RA···
D-09TSA exit, service by serviceAR··R·CC
D-10Legal entity consolidationIC····A·
D-11Member communications and ID cards·CC··A··
D-12Synergy realization and reportingC····RAR
D-13Program budget and change controlRI··I·A·
D-14Day 1 readiness and go/no-goARR·R·C·
D-15Closeout and benefits handoverA····CR·

The row that does not behave like a normal RACI

⚠⚠ The Program Manager is Accountable for six deliverables and employs nobody who delivers any of them. He is a consultant; the workstream leads are accountable to the program and employed by ACME or by the target. On an ordinary program A and R sit in the same reporting line, so the distinction is administrative. Here it is the whole governance model: accountability runs to the IMO, and the authority to task anyone runs to an employer the IMO does not control.

What makes that workable is not authority but agreed cadence and a single reported status — an escalation path to someone who can direct, rather than a pretence that the IMO can.

Paired counterparts — one deliverable, two employers

Four workstreams pair an ACME lead with a Cumberland Valley counterpart, jointly accountable for the same deliverable across two employers. This is the distinctly M&A row and it has no equivalent in the other suites.

WorkstreamACME leadCumberland Valley counterpart
Claims & Core AdministrationW. FerridayR. Lattimore
Data & EMPIDr. A. RavindranC. Bhattacharya
Application IntegrationK. Stallworth
Cloud & InfrastructureB. Trammell

⚠ The pairing exists because only one of the two knows how the target actually works, and only one of them will certainly still be employed at the end. Recording it as joint accountability is honest about that; recording a single owner would be tidier and false.

Bodies outside the matrix

These appear in no cell above because the program cannot assign them work. They are described in Artifact 32 §5.

BodyRelationship
Clean TeamHarpeth Clean Team Services, engaged by ACME Legal
Integration Steering CommitteeD. Ashmore (CFO, Sponsor) and five executives
Cheatham Mutual Holdingsthe divesting parent, under the TSA
Human ResourcesACME HR, outside the program budget
Regulatorsstate insurance department and the FTC/DOJ

Related: 53 — Roles & Responsibilities · 4 — IMO Governance · 15 — Organization Chart