Define: "Greenfield" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"It is never a greenfield. Search for the hidden legacy requirements immediately."
A completely new project or environment that lacks constraints imposed by prior work.
What does "Greenfield" actually mean?
"A mythical pristine deployment environment that will inevitably be ruined the second the client requests a custom integration."
"The new data center gives us a greenfield opportunity."
"We were promised a greenfield SD-WAN deployment until they realized they couldn't afford new edge routers."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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