Define: "White-Anting" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Document everything in Jira. When the structural collapse happens, make sure their fingerprints are all over the load-bearing beams."
The process of subverting or undermining a process or person from within.
What does "White-Anting" actually mean?
"The time-honored architectural art of killing an unwanted vendor migration by burying it under four hundred pages of impossible InfoSec compliance objections."
"We need to ensure team alignmentAlignmentForcing everyone to nod on a Zoom call so no single individual takes the blame when it fails. to prevent any inadvertent white-anting of the new initiative."
"The security team is white-anting our SD-WAN deployment by randomly declining change requests without leaving notes."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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