Define: "Bleeding edge" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Untested garbage. Let someone else be the beta tester."
Technology that is so new it has a high risk of being unreliable.
What does "Bleeding edge" actually mean?
"Software we bought because it looked cool, which currently has zero documentation and breaks daily."
"We pride ourselves on using bleeding edge technology to solve complex logistical problems."
"We adopted a bleeding edge Javascript framework that was completely abandoned by its creator three days after we pushed it to production."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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