Define: "Tick and Flick" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Never sign off on a bogus compliance doc without forcing your director to reply 'Approved' in writing first, then save that raw .msg file to an offline CYA folder before the audit hits."
A rapid administrative review process wherein routine compliance or operational checklists are verified and forwarded to the next approval stage.
What does "Tick and Flick" actually mean?
"Nobody on this distribution list has read a single word of the security audit, so just check the green boxes and sign the PDF before the auditors ask to see our firewall logs."
"This quarterly vendor review should be a quick tick and flick for the procurement committee."
"Management treated the annual disaster recovery test as a tick and flick exercise, right up until the primary storage array died and we discovered the backups were empty."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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