Define: "Working Group" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Decline the invite. Let them write a 40-page thesis while you fix the actual hardware."
A specialized committee of cross-functional team members formed to investigate and solve a specific issue.
What does "Working Group" actually mean?
"A committee assembled to study a problem, guaranteeing that absolutely no real work will be executed on that problem for at least six months."
"We are assembling a working group to tackle the new compliance regulations."
"They formed a working group to analyze the latency issue instead of just letting me reboot the load balancer."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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