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harness

Bureaucratic
/ˈhɑr.nəs/v. (aspirational)

Etym.from Old English for riding equipment, later co-opted by 20th-century management literature to imply applied control, see F. L. Grantham, Corporate Terminology, 1998.

To harness means to announce appropriation of an external technology or trend as a managerial mandate, thereby justifying budget shifts and deflecting specific deliverables.

'We will harness generative models to unlock synergies across customer touchpoints' - Q3 Board Deck, slide 47

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