List of buzzwords

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This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments.

Contents 1 General conversation 2 Business, sales and marketing 3 Science and technology 4 Politics and current affairs 5 Other/Uncategorized 6 References 7 External links

General conversation

Alignment[1] At the end of the day[1] Break through the clutter[2] Buzzword[2] – the word itself is widely considered to be a buzzword. Disconnect – an error that could not have occurred intentionally[3] Diversity[4] Ecotox[1] Empowerment[5][6] Exit strategy[5] Face time[5] Generation X[1] Globalization[7] Going Forward – as in "In the Future". Green – may qualify for a champion of buzzwords: green -energy, -building, -party, -march, -revolution, -politics, -computing, -technology, -vehicle, -highway, -cleaning, etc. Just a few from the Wikipedia. And, of course "green fatigue" Grow[3] – as in "grow the business". Hit the ground running Impact[3] – instead of effect as a noun, or affect as a verb. Interflop[5] – a dead website

Leverage[2] On the runway[1] Organic growth[2] Outside the box[3][1] Paradigm[8] Paradigm shift[9][2] Proactive[8][3] Sea change[2] Spin-up[10] Streamline[2] Synergy[6][8][3][2] Wellness[11] Win-win[1]

Business, sales and marketing

Ballpark Figure[5] Baste the Turkey - meaning to attend to a task that has been ignored for sometime Business-to-Business[5] – also known as B2B. Business-to-Consumer[5] – also known as B2C. Best of Breed[5] Best practices[5] Bizmeth[12] – shortening of "business method". Boil the Ocean - meaning to take on a task with an overwhelming and impossible scope Brand[12] Brick-and-mortar[9] Business Process Outsourcing[13][14] – also known as BPO. Buzzword compliant[15] Client-centric[5] Co-opetition[16] Customer-centric[5] Downsizing[5] Drinking the Kool-Aid[5] – refers to the cyanide-laced Flavor Aid used by Jim Jones cult – means trusting in things offered by authority figures Eat their own dog food[5][12] – also known simply as "dog food", meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others. Enterprise[12] Event horizon[17] Eyeballs[9] Free value[2] Fulfilment issues[12] Going forward (in the future) Granular[12] Herding cats[5] Holistic (approach/integration) [18] Infrastructure

Knowledge Process Outsourcing[13] – also known as KPO. Logistics[19] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies Logistically (i.e. "speaking logistically", "thinking logistically") Long Tail[20] Low Hanging Fruit[21][2] Make it pop[2] Metrics Mindshare[9] Mission Critical[9] New economy[9] Next generation[12] Next level Offshoring[17] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable. Open kimono - meaning to be open and transparent in discussions Paperless Office Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI. Reverse fulfilment[12] Rich Media Rightshoring[22] Seamless (integration) [23] Share options[12] Solution[1] SOX[24] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley. Touch Base Value-added[1] Visibility[17]

Science and technology

3G[24] Aggregator[25] Ajax[6][24] Bandwidth[1] Benchmarking[26] Back-end[12] Beta[6] Bleeding edge[12] Blog[25] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog" Bricks-and-clicks[12][27] Clickthrough[12] Client/server[28] Collaboration[29] Content management[29] Content Management System[25] – also known as CMS. Convergence[14] Cross-platform[12] Design pattern[30] Digital divide[25] Digital Remastering[31] Digital Rights Management[6] – also known as DRM. Digital signage[32] Document management[29] Dot-bomb[9][12] Download[1] E-learning[33] Enterprise Content Management[25] – also known as ECM. Enterprise Service Bus[34] – also known as ESB. Framework[6] Folksonomy[25]

Fuzzy logic[14] Immersion[35] Information superhighway / Information highway[6] Innovation [36] Mashup[6] Mobile[37] Modularity[14][38] Nanotechnology[39] Netiquette[25] Next Generation[35] (also "NextGen") Podcasting[24][25] Portal[12] Real-time[25] SaaS[24] Scalability[40][41] Social bookmarking[24] Social software[25] Spam[25] Struts[42] Sync-up[9] Tagging[25] User generated content[43] Virtualization[24] Vlogging[25] Vortal[44] Web 2.0[6][24][25] Waffle House Webinar[25][12] Weblog[25] Web services[29] Wikiality[45] Workflow[14][46][29]

Politics and current affairs

Information society[47] Political capital[48]

Stakeholder[49] Truthiness[45]

• Elitist
• Pork-barrel spending
• Shore Up

Other/Uncategorized

Best-in-class[50]

Tiptronic[6]

References

External links

• Investopedia's List of Buzz Words
• Global Language Monitor's Lists of Political, High Tech, Youthful Jargon
• Rhymer.net's Directory of Business Jargon and Buzzwords

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