Stewardship & ownership
Identify accountable human roles and the decisions within their mandate.
Enterprise Transformation Office
Who stewards transformation and its value?
Organize accountable oversight, coordination, value review and learning across transformation work.
When this is useful
Use the ETO concept when a transformation needs explicit stewardship, decision rights and coordinated review across workstreams.
How it fits in the portfolio
ETO is a governance and operating enabler within AEAF. It supports the engagement and transformation plan rather than adding a separate approval chain.
What it covers
Coordination & review
Connect delivery dependencies, evidence and appropriate review points.
Value & learning
Review adoption, outcomes and lessons against agreed objectives.
Improving an order-reconciliation handoff.
Agree who can decide the change scope, accept the evidence and review the operating result, using the existing engagement decisions.
What an agreed engagement can produce
A scoped operating structure, responsibility and decision-rights map, review cadence and value measures.
Limits
Actual roles and authority must be agreed for the engagement. The ETO model does not assign anyone new responsibilities by itself.
Documented methods and designs don't by themselves show that software is available or that outcomes have been measured.
Start with a real business need.
Connect the method to the workflow, capability or decision you want to improve.