Centre of excellence

How it is used

Often shortened to CoE; distinguish its expertise role from a service centre processing routine requests.

Example sentences

1. The analytics centre of excellence helps regional teams choose consistent methods.

   Specialist guidance spreads common practice without doing every local analysis.

2. Our centre of excellence documented lessons from the first automation projects.

   Knowledge from individual projects becomes a reusable organisational resource.

Common collocations

• establish a centre of excellence
• analytics centre of excellence

Related terms

• coachingA way of helping someone improve their skills and performance mainly by asking questions and guiding them to find their own answers, rather than telling them what to do.
• alignmentA state in which teams, goals and actions support the same strategy and priorities, so that different parts of an organisation work in the same direction.

More terms: Organisational Structure

• manager
• team leader
• org chart
• report to
• direct report
• line manager
• senior management
• middle management
• hierarchy
• span of control
• matrix structure
• silo