
2. AI Transformation Office (TMO) Setup
Strategies don't fail in the document. They fail on Tuesday.
In 8–12 weeks: decision rights with teeth, a portfolio with one front door, stage gates that release funding on evidence — and two live operating cycles run with our coaching before we step back.
Every failed transformation had a committee. It met monthly, reviewed slides, and decided nothing — because nobody ever defined what it could decide.
A Transformation Office done right is the opposite of that theatre: two to four people with an explicit mandate, metered funding that follows evidence, and pre-agreed kill criteria that make stopping an initiative administrative rather than heroic. We don't leave you a binder.
We design the engine, then run its first two cycles with you — real initiatives, real gate decisions, real money — before handing you the keys.
