Agentic AI Playbooks for Executives Scaling AI Agents: Center of Excellence Models, Cost Management, Security, Maturity Frameworks, and Enterprise-Wide Depl, Book 10, (Paperback)

<b>Your pilot worked. Now 80% of organizations fail to scale it. This playbook ensures yours doesn't.</b><p>The first agent project always succeeds. It has executive attention, a hand-picked team, and a forgiving scope. Then scaling begins - and organizations hit three predictable walls: governance gaps, cost explosions, and <b>shadow AI</b> proliferating across every department. This playbook maps every wall and gives you the architecture to break through them.</p><p>Written by a finance leader who has built and deployed multi-agent systems across enterprise environments, <b>Scaling AI Agents</b> delivers the platform blueprints, cost models, security frameworks, and maturity diagnostics you need to move from a single successful pilot to full <b>enterprise-wide AI agent deployment</b>.</p><p><b>Inside you will find: </b></p><ul><li>The <b>3 scaling walls</b> that kill 80% of enterprise agent programs - and how to avoid each one</li><li>A <b>6-service platform architecture</b> for agent orchestration, observability, and governance at scale</li><li>A complete <b>Center of Excellence charter template</b> with roles, funding models, and success metrics</li><li>The <b>enterprise approval workflow</b> - from intake request to production deployment</li><li>A <b>4-category cost model</b> covering compute, tokens, labor, and opportunity cost with <b>token governance</b> guardrails</li><li><b>Zero-trust security architecture</b> for multi-agent environments with least-privilege enforcement</li><li>The <b>5-stage maturity model</b> with a self-scoring diagnostic to benchmark your organization today</li><li>The <b>"share insights not data" principle</b> for cross-department agent collaboration without data sprawl</li><li><b>20 copy-paste prompts</b> for scaling operations, cost tracking, and governance enforcement</li><li>Shadow agent detection and remediation strategies for ungoverned AI already in your enterprise</li></ul><p>Whether you are a <b>CIO building an enterprise AI platform</b>, a VP of Engineering standing up an <b>agent Center of Excellence</b>, or a program manager tasked with scaling AI from one team to fifty - this playbook gives you the frameworks, templates, and deployment patterns to scale without breaking what already works.</p><p><b>The scaling truth: </b> Pilot success is not a predictor of enterprise success. The organizations that scale are the ones that build the platform before they need it.</p><p><i>Book 10 of the <b>Agentic AI Playbooks for Executives</b> Series. New playbooks release weekly.</i></p>

• Agentic AI Playbooks for Executives Scaling AI Agents: Center of Excellence Models, Cost Management, Security, Maturity Frameworks, and Enterprise-Wide Depl, Book 10, (Paperback)
• Author: Kenneth Mangum
• ISBN: 9798180903037
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-30
• Page Count: 142