The Augmented Enterprise: Lean Operating Discipline for the Agentic Enterprise

By Patrick Phillips

Patrick Phillips draws on experience in large-scale operations, Lean, CIO and AI leadership, production agent systems, and teaching leaders how to implement AI. The book develops the Augmented Enterprise Operating System, or AEOS, as a practical management system connecting five domains: the Intelligence Foundation, Agentic Work System, Lean AI Production System, Governance and Trust, and the Augmented Organization.

Across 12 chapters and handbook-style figures, the book covers value streams and constraints, the first production agent, context and memory, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation and release, machine identity and delegated authority, AI economics, human-agent work design, governance, operating cadence, and leadership.

This is not a book about collecting more AI use cases. It is about building an enterprise that can decide what work deserves intelligence, operate that work reliably, stop what is not working, and keep improving after the demo is over.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HK74YBBP
• ISBN13: 9798174982581
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"