Define: "Swings and Roundabouts" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Do not accept this dismissal. Document the exact dollar amount lost in the outage so you have a paper trail when the audit happens."
A situation where the advantages and disadvantages ultimately balance each other out.
What does "Swings and Roundabouts" actually mean?
"The casual British dismissal of a catastrophic deployment failure falsely implying that this week's massive revenue loss will magically balance out later."
"While the initial rollout had some minor delays it's swings and roundabouts as we look at long-term efficiency."
""We lost three days of production data during the cutover, but it's swings and roundabouts really, because we technically updated the firmware.""
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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