Efficient Enterprise
COE Mentoring
Build an Automation & AI Center that prints ROI—without burning your people or your budget.
6-month private engagement · 10 hours/week
We partner with your teams to mature delivery, governance, and ROI across your Automation & AI practice—so initiatives stop stalling and start paying.
Why a Center of Excellence (COE)?
Most companies don’t fail at AI because of the tech. They fail because the machine around the tech is broken—no operating model, ad-hoc “projects,” zero visibility into value, and governance that shows up after the fire.
COE Mentoring makes the machine run. We install the operating rhythm, the value pipeline, and the accountability stack that turns scattered efforts into compounding returns.
Turn scattered efforts into compounding returns.
What You’ll Have in 180 Days
Operating Model & Governance
Clear roles, decision rights, separation of duties, and risk controls that let you scale safely and fast.
Use-Case Pipeline + Value Tracking
An intake → scoring → prioritization pipeline tied directly to ROI, with dashboards that show value realized, value unlocked, and what’s next.
Capability Uplift Across Teams
Playbooks, patterns, and reviews that upskill delivery squads and reduce dependency on heroes.
Platform-Agnostic Best Practices
Defined standards that enforce design, delivery speed, resiliency, scalability, and ease of maintenance—regardless of vendor.
Auditability & Security Built-In
Policy, logs, and controls so every agent/robot action is monitorable and defensible.
Observability Dashboards
Performance, workload, and SLA monitoring so you see issues before customers feel them.
Communication & Evangelization
A comms cadence that surfaces wins, accelerates adoption, and grows a culture of efficiency.
What We Do (Week by Week)
Time commitment: ~10 hours/week (yours + key stakeholders).
We run a tight loop so you move from talk to traction—fast.
Strategy & Governance (2h)
Decision frameworks, policy reviews, risk gates, funding model.
Pipeline Clinic (2h)
Intake triage, ROI scoring, prioritization, and quarterly value targets.
Design & Delivery Reviews (3h)
Architecture/design reviews, SDLC standards, QA sign-off, and go-live readiness.
Operations & Observability (1h)
SLA trends, incident post-mortems, backlog burn-down, capacity planning.
Executive Readout (1h)
Value realized, blockers, next bets—board-ready in a single page.
Designed to produce visible wins every quarter.
The Pillars We Install
1) Operating Model & Governance
- Roles, decision rights, and separation of duties
- Security and data protection controls
- Audit trails for all agent/robot actions
- Funding gates and change management tied to risk/impact
2) Use-Case Pipeline & Value
- Intake → discovery → analysis with proper documentation
- Process selection guidelines to ensure max ROI
- Business case templates, ROI calculators, and value tracking to show dollars, hours, and risk reduced
- Portfolio view with quarterly targets and stage gates
3) Capability Uplift & Delivery Excellence
- Design phase standards for stability, resiliency, scalability, maintainability
- Platform-agnostic development practices that enforce velocity + quality
- Supportability documentation, runbooks, and L3 escalation
- Observability: performance, workload, and SLA dashboards
- Evangelization plan to spread wins and drive adoption across the org
- Stable, resilient, scalable design standards
- Clear support handoffs and runbooks
- Portfolio‑level transparency and reporting
Vision
As author of The Efficient Enterprise: How Automation and AI Will Revolutionize Business in the 21st Century, Martin’s aim is practical and finance-led: better systems, not more software; better decisions, not more dashboards; better outcomes, not more slides.
- Opportunity Scoring tied to financial outcomes
- Delivery rhythms built for scale and governance
- Capability uplift embedded across teams