This is how we streamline AI implementation across 26 companies in a PE portfolio.
Each company has 10 departments, and each department has 10 workflows.
If you do them one at a time, you need "50,000 forward deployed engineers across three years."
Our method is to group the companies by system of record.
For finance, the 5 companies on NetSuite are one group. The 4 companies on Dynamics are a different group.
Then you find what NetSuite can do and what it cannot do. You build only for the gaps.
In one group, the processes are still different. The 5 NetSuite companies used 12, 9, 15, 18 and 13 steps for their finance process.
The target is 6 steps, with agents at specific points.
You will not often make all 5 exactly equal. You can come close if you map each process with the stakeholders before you change it.
A single company or 26, sort the work by its system before you build.