Define: "Best of Breed" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Ask the sales rep for a live demo using your actual network topology, not their canned lab environment."
The most superior product or system within its specific category or market niche.
What does "Best of Breed" actually mean?
"A marketing buzzword used by the CTO to justify why we spent our entire annual budget on a single appliance."
"We are committed to equipping our teams with best of breed technology."
"We deployed a best of breed SD-WAN solution, which is corporate speak for 'it costs three times as much but still drops packets on failover.'"
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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