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Function cockpit

AI GBS & Global Business Services

One front door for the enterprise. The digital-workforce factory.

Autonomy0% / 88%

Phase: Phase 4 — Governed autonomy

Operate shared services as an enterprise control tower and digital-workforce factory: intake, routing, standard execution, queue balance and evidence packaging are agent work; service design, sourcing strategy and control acceptance remain human.

Trust score

0

Touchless

0%

Human review

0%

Override rate

0%

Capacity released

30-50% released operating capacity across mature services; selected transactional workflows higher

Accountable human

Head of Global Business Services

CoS agent: GBS Chief of Staff

Eleven decomposed sub-functions, each with its own estate rating

Sub-functions

AI GBS & Global Business Services, decomposed

Nobody automates a function. They automate the sub-functions inside it, at different speeds, with different ceilings. Each one carries its own orchestrator, its own human owner, and its own honest limit.

Autonomy ceiling range

66%93%

The binding constraint here is Global Process Ownership — capped at 66%.

Mining and variant detection are agentic. Mandating one global process overrides local judgment across jurisdictions and needs a human process owner to carry it.

H2R Control Tower

Hire-to-Retire Tower Orchestrator · human owner Tower Lead, Hire-to-Retire

A

estate rating

Owns payroll transaction work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 4 lines across 27 stations, drains the repeatable share into the H2R tower, and holds 3 human gates.

autonomy now 78%ceiling 91%

The tower processes at scale with deterministic rules. Payroll disbursement keeps a dual human approval because an error is unrecoverable within the pay cycle.

Units / wk

25,526

Agents

12

Lines

4

Cost / unit

$7.21

was $26

1 Orchestrator3 AI GBS3 Task1 Observe2 Policy1 Strategy1 Challenger h2r
14 clear4 evidenced3 held
21 live units
S2P Control Tower

Source-to-Pay Tower Orchestrator · human owner Tower Lead, Source-to-Pay

A

estate rating

Owns invoice work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 4 lines across 24 stations, drains the repeatable share into the S2P tower, and holds 4 human gates.

autonomy now 85%ceiling 93%

Three-way match and invoice capture are the most mature agentic transactions in the enterprise. Bank detail changes hold a human gate — that is where the fraud is.

Units / wk

20,386

Agents

12

Lines

4

Cost / unit

$7.48

was $27

1 Orchestrator3 AI GBS5 Task2 Policy1 Challenger s2p
19 clear7 evidenced2 held
28 live units
O2C Control Tower

Order-to-Cash Tower Orchestrator · human owner Tower Lead, Order-to-Cash

A

estate rating

Owns invoice work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 4 lines across 24 stations, drains the repeatable share into the O2C tower, and holds 3 human gates.

autonomy now 84%ceiling 92%

Matching, billing and dunning are fully agentic. Credit holds on strategic accounts and write-offs above threshold are human decisions with revenue consequences.

Units / wk

22,967

Agents

12

Lines

4

Cost / unit

$9.76

was $35

1 Orchestrator3 AI GBS2 Policy4 Task1 Strategy1 Challenger o2c
15 clear7 evidenced4 held
26 live units
R2R Control Tower

Record-to-Report Tower Orchestrator · human owner Tower Lead, Record-to-Report

A

estate rating

Owns reconciliation work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 4 lines across 25 stations, drains the repeatable share into the R2R tower, and holds 4 human gates.

autonomy now 79%ceiling 89%

Reconciliation and accrual mechanics run agentic. The close sign-off is a personal attestation by a named officer and will never be delegated to an agent.

Units / wk

19,748

Agents

12

Lines

4

Cost / unit

$13

was $37

1 Orchestrator3 AI GBS5 Task2 Policy1 Challenger r2r
18 clear4 evidenced1 held
23 live units
Service Catalog & Intake

Catalog & Intake Orchestrator · human owner Head of Service Catalog

BBB

estate rating

Owns service request work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 3 lines across 14 stations, drains the repeatable share into the AI-OPS tower, and holds 2 human gates.

autonomy now 83%ceiling 90%

Intake and routing are pure classification. Adding a service to the catalog commits delivery capacity and holds an approval.

Units / wk

18,519

Agents

9

Lines

3

Cost / unit

$9.33

was $27

1 Orchestrator2 AI GBS3 Task1 Observe1 Policy1 Challenger ai-ops
13 clear5 evidenced1 held
19 live units
Global Process Ownership

Process Ownership Orchestrator · human owner Global Process Owner

BBB

estate rating

Owns process standard work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.

autonomy now 48%ceiling 66%

Mining and variant detection are agentic. Mandating one global process overrides local judgment across jurisdictions and needs a human process owner to carry it.

Units / wk

106

Agents

10

Lines

3

Cost / unit

$391

was $874

1 Orchestrator2 Task2 Observe2 Strategy2 Policy1 Challenger
3 clear3 evidenced0 held
6 live units
Automation Factory

Automation Factory Orchestrator · human owner Head of Automation

A

estate rating

Owns automation work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 4 lines across 26 stations, drains the repeatable share into the AI-OPS tower, and holds 4 human gates.

autonomy now 68%ceiling 80%

Build and test are agentic. Putting new automation into a controlled process requires a control review — an unreviewed agent in production is how estates rot.

Units / wk

8,788

Agents

11

Lines

4

Cost / unit

$11

was $26

1 Orchestrator2 Observe3 Task2 AI GBS1 Strategy1 Policy1 Challenger ai-ops
12 clear4 evidenced1 held
17 live units
Master Data Management

Master Data Orchestrator · human owner Head of Master Data

A

estate rating

Owns master record work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the DATA-ANALYTICS tower, and holds 2 human gates.

autonomy now 79%ceiling 87%

Profiling, enrichment and dedupe run agentic. A steward confirms golden records for entities that drive payment or reporting, because bad master data poisons every tower.

Units / wk

9,565

Agents

11

Lines

3

Cost / unit

$6.08

was $18

1 Orchestrator1 Observe4 Task2 AI GBS1 Policy1 Strategy1 Challenger data-analytics
10 clear8 evidenced1 held
19 live units
Service Delivery Management

Service Delivery Orchestrator · human owner Head of Service Delivery

BBB

estate rating

Owns service review work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 4 lines across 22 stations, drains the repeatable share into the AI-OPS tower, and holds 4 human gates.

autonomy now 66%ceiling 74%

Monitoring and rebalancing are agentic. The rating an agent estate carries is a governance statement, so a human ratifies it before it is published.

Units / wk

7,641

Agents

10

Lines

4

Cost / unit

$11

was $30

1 Orchestrator2 Observe3 Task1 AI GBS1 Policy1 Strategy1 Challenger ai-ops
14 clear2 evidenced2 held
18 live units
Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement Orchestrator · human owner Head of Continuous Improvement

BBB

estate rating

Owns improvement work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the AI-OPS tower, and holds 2 human gates.

autonomy now 70%ceiling 78%

Detection, design and measurement are agentic. Running an experiment on a live process needs an owner who accepts the operational risk.

Units / wk

3,531

Agents

9

Lines

3

Cost / unit

$9.36

was $28

1 Orchestrator1 Observe4 Task1 AI GBS1 Policy1 Challenger ai-ops
10 clear4 evidenced1 held
15 live units
Cost-to-Serve Management

Cost-to-Serve Orchestrator · human owner Head of Service Economics

BBB

estate rating

Owns cost line work end to end inside AI GBS & Global Business Services. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into the R2R tower, and holds 2 human gates.

autonomy now 84%ceiling 85%

The tower that keeps the platform honest. Computation is agentic; the published unit economics carry a named human author because they are used to make investment decisions.

Units / wk

8,133

Agents

11

Lines

3

Cost / unit

$2.85

was $11

1 Orchestrator3 AI GBS3 Task2 Strategy1 Policy1 Challenger r2r
6 clear5 evidenced0 held
11 live units

How to read an estate rating

The rating is not a maturity badge. It scores seven control dimensions — control coverage, evidence quality, override discipline, data integrity, recovery readiness, cost transparency, and judgment readiness. Judgment readiness runs deliberately against autonomy: a sub-function that has pushed automation hardest usually scores worst on whether a human could still take the decision back.

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