The AI Center of Excellence: Organizing for AI Adoption

The organizational delivery vehicle for AI adoption: what the cloud CoE story teaches, the dual enable-and-govern mandate, three operating models and when to migrate between them, the team, the intake-to-production machinery, the artifact library, and a first-year roadmap that ends with the center making itself less necessary.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. Why an AI center of excellence
2. The mandate and the three operating models
3. People and roles: staffing the center
4. Processes and gates: intake to production
5. The artifact library and the operating rhythm
6. The first year — and making yourself less necessary