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.

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Contents 1 General conversation 2 Business, sales and marketing 3 Science and technology 4 Politics and current affairs 5 Other/Uncategorized 6 See also 7 References 8 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. Contingency planning - overly used on MBTI related sites about NT types. Disconnect – an error that could not have occurred intentionally[3] Diversity[4] Ecotox[3] Empowerment[5][6] Exit strategy[5] Face time[5] Generation X[1] Globalization[7] Going Forward – as in "In the Future". Green 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[1][3] Paradigm[8] Paradigm shift[2][9] Proactive[3][8] Sea change (transformation)[2] Spin-up[10] Streamline[2] Synergy[2][3][6][8] Wellness[11] Win-win[1]

Business, sales and marketing

Analytics[12] Ballpark Figure[5] Bandwidth[1] 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[13] – shortening of "business method". Boil the Ocean - meaning to take on a task with an overwhelming and impossible scope Brand[13] Brick-and-mortar[9] Business Process Outsourcing[14][15] – also known as BPO. Buzzword compliant[16] Client-centric[5] Circle back Co-opetition[17] Core competency[18] 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][13] – also known simply as "dog food", meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others. Enterprise[13][disambiguation needed] Event horizon[19] Eyeballs[9] Free value[2] Fulfilment issues[13] Going forward (in the future) Granular[13] Herding cats[5] Holistic (approach/integration) [20] Infrastructure

Integrated Knowledge Process Outsourcing[14] – also known as KPO. Logistics[21] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies Logistically (i.e. "speaking logistically", "thinking logistically") Long Tail[22] Low Hanging Fruit[2][23] Make it pop[2] Metrics Mindshare[9] Mission Critical[9] Management Visibility[9] New economy[9] Next generation[13] Next level Offline - to continue a conversation privately Offshoring[19] – 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[13] Rich Media Rightshoring[24] Seamless (integration) [25] Share options[13] Siloed - Meaning completely separated with no communication between Solution[1] SOX[26] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley. State-of-the-Art Sustainability [27] Tail Risk Touch Base Tic-tac Umbrella Wawi Value-added[1] Visibility[19]

Science and technology

3G[26] Aggregator[28] Ajax[6][26] Benchmarking[29] Back-end[13] Beta[6] Bleeding edge[13] Blog[28] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog" Blogosphere Bricks-and-clicks[13][30] Clickthrough[13] Cloud[31] Collaboration[32] Content management[32] Content Management System[28] – also known as CMS. Convergence[33] Cross-platform[13] Design pattern[34] Digital divide[28] Digital Remastering[35] Digital Rights Management[6] – also known as DRM. Digital signage[36] Document management[32] Dot-bomb[9][13] Download[1] E-learning[37] Enterprise Content Management[28] – also known as ECM. Enterprise Service Bus[38] – also known as ESB. Framework[6] Folksonomy[28]

Fuzzy logic[39] Generic Immersion[40] Information superhighway / Information highway[6] Innovation [41] Mashup[6] Mobile[42] Modularity[43][44] Nanotechnology[45] Netiquette[28] Next Generation[40] (also "NextGen") Pizzazz[46] Podcasting[26][28] Portal[13] Real-time[28] SaaS[26] Scalability[47][48] Social bookmarking[26] Social software[28] Spam[28] Struts[49] Sync-up[9] Tagging[28] Think outside the box[28] User generated content[50] Virtualization[26] Vlogging[28] Vortal[51] Web 2.0[6][26][28] Webinar[13][28] Weblog[28] Web services[32] Wikiality[52] Workflow[32][53][54] Vaporware

Politics and current affairs

Flip-flop Information society[55] Political capital[56]

Stakeholder[57] Truthiness[52]

• Elitist
• Pork-barrel spending
• Shore Up
• Hope
• Rule of Law
• Change

Other/Uncategorized

Best-in-class[58]

Tiptronic[6]

See also

• Buzzword bingo
• Cant (language)
• Shibboleth

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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