Define: "Wash Its Own Face" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Tell finance the current technical debt is costing the company $10k an hour in risk. Make up a spreadsheet; they won't check the math."
A project or investment that generates enough revenue or savings to cover its own costs.
What does "Wash Its Own Face" actually mean?
"Finance’s passive-aggressive way of demanding a new infrastructure upgrade pay for itself before the hardware is even unboxed."
"Before we approve the new software licenses, we need to ensure the initiative will wash its own face."
"They denied the budget for the new Juniper firewalls because the upgrade won't wash its own face this quarter."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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