I Audited 10 Power Platform CoEs: Here’s Why They Fail

About this episode

The episode discusses the failures of Power Platform Centers of Excellence and the misconceptions around governance that lead to inefficiencies.

Most organizations treat their Center of Excellence like a control tower built for a different era. Everything flows through approvals, reviews, and documentation. On paper, it looks like control. In reality, it’s friction. You promise the business agility. What they experience instead is waiting. After auditing ten different Power Platform CoEs across multiple industries, one thing became clear. The failure isn’t in the tools. It’s in the assumptions behind how we govern them. The idea that human oversight equals enterprise control simply doesn’t hold up anymore. It slows everything down while still allowing risk to slip through. When governance depends on people reviewing every solution, you don’t get safety. You get bottlenecks. And when those bottlenecks grow, the business finds ways around them. That’s when shadow IT starts to grow. In this episode, I break down the five patterns that consistently turn CoEs into progress-killing systems. These patterns show up everywhere, regardless of company size or industry. Once you see them, you can’t unsee them. WHAT’S REALLY GOING WRONG At the core, most CoEs are trying to control a high-speed platform with slow, manual processes…

People in this episode

Host: Mirko Peters

Topics covered

• Power Platform
• Center of Excellence
• governance
• business agility
• shadow IT

Keywords

• Power Platform
• Center of Excellence
• governance
• business agility
• shadow IT
• bottlenecks
• automation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Power Platform

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