Center of Excellence (CoE)
A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a sub-organization that provides leadership, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus area.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Skills-based CoE to being a Repository-based CoE.
- It can provide Focus Area Leadership.
- It can define best practices in a focus area.
- It can perform Focus Area Research.
- It can deliver Focus Area Training.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Business Process Management, Continuous Improvement, Organizational Innovation.
References
2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/center_of_excellence Retrieved:2019-9-26.
- A center of excellence (COE) is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus area.
Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence" in one context may have completely different characteristics from another. The focus area might be a technology (e.g. Java), a business concept (e.g. BPM), a skill (e.g. negotiation) or a broad area of study (e.g. women's health). A center of excellence may also be aimed at revitalizing stalled initiatives. The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area. (e.g. the Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science).
- A center of excellence (COE) is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus area.
2019b
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/center_of_excellence#Organizations Retrieved:2019-9-26.
- Within an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a competency center or a capability center. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in Management of Portfolios, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff. In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as Service-oriented architecture or business intelligence.
The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats is a response to hybrid warfare.
- Within an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a competency center or a capability center. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in Management of Portfolios, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff. In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as Service-oriented architecture or business intelligence.
2018
- https://zinnov.com/what-is-center-of-excellence-coe-and-why-should-organizations-set-it-up/
- QUOTE: ... A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a body in an organization that works across business units (BUs) or product lines within a BU and has a leading-edge knowledge and competency in that area. It is comprised of highly-skilled individuals and experts, who disseminate knowledge in an organization and share best practices. The literal meaning of a Center of Excellence is – ‘A place where the highest standards are maintained.’ ...
... Setting up a CoE similarly needs a clarity of purpose and a roadmap. CoEs are typically established in one of the following two scenarios:
- When there is a need to develop expertise and standards in an area/component used by multiple products and solutions in the organization. The CoE, in this case, owns this competency. It defines the roadmap, standards, and the architecture for that module. Teams across the organization use the module/component in their products or solutions.
- When there is a need for a new skill in the organization that must be developed organically through an incubation CoE. This CoE is then responsible to develop this competency through hiring, trainings, and partnerships that can be leveraged across the organization.
- QUOTE: ... A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a body in an organization that works across business units (BUs) or product lines within a BU and has a leading-edge knowledge and competency in that area. It is comprised of highly-skilled individuals and experts, who disseminate knowledge in an organization and share best practices. The literal meaning of a Center of Excellence is – ‘A place where the highest standards are maintained.’ ...
2016
- The Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University
- QUOTE: ... A premier organization providing an exceptional product or service in an assigned sphere of expertise and within a specific field of technology, business, or government, consistent with the unique requirements and capabilities of the CoE organization. …
2017
- https://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/competency-center
- QUOTE: An organizational structure used to coordinate IT skills with an enterprise. Competency centers provide expertise for project or program support, acting both as repositories of knowledge and resource pools for multiple business areas. Skills-based competency centers, the most common type in an information services organization, are used for application development, software language skills, data management, Internet development and network design. Within the enterprise, it is increasingly common to find competency centers (or shared services) for travel, finance and human resources. Repository-based competencies act exclusively as sources of information.