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Federated Decision-Rights Matrix

A RACI matrix that sets who decides common IT questions in a federated model: central IT or the business unit.

First page of Federated Decision-Rights Matrix

What's inside

  • Instructions for assigning RACI roles and reading the decision owner column.
  • Five decision areas: identity and access, data and residency, tooling, security, and architecture, with five decisions in each.
  • For each decision: roles for central IT, BU IT, the BU business and legal or risk, the decision owner and a one-line rationale.
  • A subsidiarity test of six questions for deciding where an ambiguous decision belongs.
  • The Excel version puts the matrix and the subsidiarity test on separate sheets.

Format: PDF (3 pages) and Excel workbook.

How to use it

Start from the filled-in defaults, change the rows that do not match your model, and use the subsidiarity test for decisions the matrix does not list.

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