Define: "Baked In" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Demand to see the vendor's documentation for the baked in feature before you sign the PO."
An integral or inseparable part of a product or plan from the beginning.
What does "Baked In" actually mean?
"A lie told to a client to cover up the fact that a critical security feature is actually a desperate untested afterthought."
"Compliance must be baked in to our design process not added at the end."
"The sales rep assured the client that redundant failover was baked in, forcing me to build a script from scratch overnight."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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