Define: "SteerCo" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Always put a deliberate, obvious typo on slide two of your SteerCo deck. The executives will spend 45 minutes correcting it and approve your actual architecture budget without reading it."
A Steering Committee comprised of senior executives and key stakeholdersStakeholdersThe 15 people who will complain about the final product but refused to attend the requirements meetings. who provide high-level oversight, strategic direction, and governanceGovernanceBureaucratic red tape designed by people who have never touched a CLI, ensuring a five-minute subnet allocation requires three weeks of approvals. for major projects.
What does "SteerCo" actually mean?
"A monthly gathering of people who don't know how the technology works, meeting to argue about slide colors and delay your deployment by six weeks."
"The SteerCo has reviewed the Q3 milestones and approved the budget reallocation for the customer portal redesign."
"We can't buy the replacement switch cables until the SteerCo meets next month to debate whether layer-1 hardware aligns with our cloud-first vision."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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