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"Scalable"

"Scalable" means a system, process, or business model can handle significant growth without breaking down or requiring proportionally more resources.

Say this instead: able to grow

How "Scalable" shows up at work

Every pitch deck promises a scalable model, and every ops manager knows the product was not actually designed with growth in mind. The word gets used to sell an idea; the cracks appear when the idea actually starts to scale.

Buzzword

We need a scalable onboarding process before we bring on more enterprise clients.

Plain English

We need a process that can grow before we bring on more enterprise clients.

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