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Service governance
accountability across vendor boundaries.
Single-point accountability for integration seams; documented escalation; vendor coordination owned by the integrator.
- Accountability model
- Single-point ownership of integration seams
- Vendor coordination
- Integrator-led, not FM-led
- Escalation discipline
- Published path, named responders, target SLAs
Service governance is the contractual layer that makes multi-vendor integration sustainable. Every seam in a multi-vendor building can be a place where vendors disclaim responsibility — the camera vendor says the network is the problem, the network vendor says the camera is the problem, the integrator says it's both. Without a documented accountability layer, the FM team becomes the vendor coordinator by default.
We accept single-point accountability for the integrations we deliver. The AMC contract documents the seams and assigns ownership. The incident process routes seam-related issues to us. We coordinate with the vendors. The FM team manages the building; we manage the seams. The pattern works because it is contractual, documented and tested. Where the FM team needs to escalate, the escalation path is published with named responders and target response times.
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Methodology
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governance
Single-point accountability across system seams
Multi-vendor systems integrate at the seams; someone has to own the seams.
governance
Operational continuity through documented runbooks
Runbooks turn senior knowledge into operational repeatability. Without them, the FM team improvises every incident.
Glossary
Related glossary terms
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· Last reviewed 2026-05-17 · operations
