What Is a Center for Enablement (C4E)?

Center for Enablement. [d3sign/Getty]
A Center for Enablement (C4E) is a cross-functional team tasked with productizing, publishing, and harvesting reusable assets and best practices.

Technology is important to enterprise success. But the larger a company becomes and the more technology projects it initiates, the more complexity and fragmentation arise in both business processes and the tech landscape.

To deal with this difficult environment, companies often introduce rigorous management and control processes, but these can become overly rigid and calcify innovation and agility.

Businesses need a way to introduce processes and manage change to make sure that IT projects don’t proliferate in the shadows. At the same time, they must keep the road smooth for innovation throughout. These seemingly irreconcilable goals can coexist. It’s done through a Center for Enablement.