Define: "One Throat to Choke" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"When leadership says this, make sure your neck isn't the one they are actually looking at."
Consolidating vendors to streamline accountability and support.
What does "One Throat to Choke" actually mean?
"Paying one company triple the market rate just so leadership knows exactly who to scream at during a global routing outage."
"Vendor consolidationVendor ConsolidationRipping out four perfectly good specialized tools and replacing them with one massive Next-Gen firewall suite that does all four jobs terribly. gives us one throat to choke for enterprise support."
"We are moving all firewalls to one vendor so we have one throat to choke."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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