Define: "Operationalizing" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Automate it yourself on a local Linux VM using Python and never tell management. Use the extra three days to play video games."
The process of integrating a new tool process or strategy into daily business operations.
What does "Operationalizing" actually mean?
"Forcing a junior engineer to do something manually every 90 days because the company refused to buy an automated tool."
"We are focused on operationalizing our new cloud strategy across all departments."
"We are operationalizing the firewall audits by having someone export the config to Excel and read it line by line."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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