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Define: "Put it in the car park" in Business
Fiscal Threat Level
LOW IMPACT
Minimal fiscal damage
CWO Pro-Tip
"Be the one who suggests the car park. It makes you look like a collaborative visionary while successfully dodging three months of undocumented firewall migrations."
What HR thinks it means:
To temporarily set aside a topic during a meeting for future discussion.
What does "Put it in the car park" actually mean?
"A tactical maneuver to permanently assassinate a cloud migration initiative before it destroys your legacy infrastructure."
How HR uses it:
"Let's put that idea in the car park and return to the main agenda."
How you actually use it:
"I put the SD-WAN overlay pitch in the car park before anyone realized it was going to completely break the legacy Juniper SRX tunnels."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
Published: 2026-10-02