Define: "Over-indexing" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Build them a custom Grafana dashboard full of meaningless, bright green dials. They will stare at it all day and leave you alone to fix the actual outage."
"Placing a disproportionate amount of emphasis or resources on a specific metric, trend, or operational detail."
What does "Over-indexing" actually mean?
"Management demanding daily, color-coded packet loss graphs for a redundant copper link while the primary Cisco SD-WAN fabric is actively experiencing a routing loop."
""We need to ensure we aren't over-indexing on short-term wins at the expense of our long-term roadmap.""
""The director is over-indexing on the latency of the guest Wi-Fi while our core switch is literally melting down.""
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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