Define: "CapEx" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"If CapEx is frozen convince the vendor to sell the hardware as a 'managed service' so you can sneak it into the OpExOpExThe bloated subscription budget used to pay for 15 overlapping SaaS tools that nobody actually logs into. budget."
Funds used by a company to acquire or upgrade physical assets.
What does "CapEx" actually mean?
"The budget they absolutely refuse to use to buy the physical firewall you desperately need."
"Any major hardware purchases must be submitted through the CapEx approval workflow."
"We couldn't get CapEx approval for the new Juniper switches so the core network is still running on hardware from 2015."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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