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

[edit] 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]

[edit] Business, sales and marketing

Ballpark Figure[5] 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". 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] Knowledge Process Outsourcing[13] – also known as KPO. Logistics[18] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies Logistically (i.e. "speaking logistically", "thinking logistically") Long Tail[19] Low Hanging Fruit[20][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. Paperless Office Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI. Reverse fulfilment[12] Rich Media Rightshoring[21] Share options[12] Solution[1] SOX[22] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley. Value-added[1] Visibility[17]

[edit] Science and technology

3G[22] Aggregator[23] Ajax[6][22] Bandwidth[1] Benchmarking[24] Back-end[12] Beta[6] Bleeding edge[12] Blog[23] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog" Bricks-and-clicks[12][25] Clickthrough[12] Client/server[26] Collaboration[27] Content management[27] Content Management System[23] – also known as CMS. Convergence[14] Cross-platform[12] Design pattern[28] Digital divide[23] Digital Remastering[29] Digital Rights Management[6] – also known as DRM. Digital signage[30] Document management[27] Dot-bomb[9][12] Download[1] E-learning[31] Enterprise Content Management[23] – also known as ECM. Enterprise Service Bus[32] – also known as ESB. Framework[6] Folksonomy[23]

Fuzzy logic[14] Immersion[33] Information superhighway / Information highway[6] Innovation [34] Mashup[6] Mobile[35] Modularity[14][36] Nanotechnology[37] Netiquette[23] Next Generation[33] (also "NextGen") Podcasting[22][23] Portal[12] Real-time[23] SaaS[22] Scalability[38][39] Social bookmarking[22] Social software[23] Spam[23] Struts[40] Sync-up[9] Tagging[23] User generated content[41] Virtualization[22] Vlogging[23] Vortal[42] Web 2.0[6][22][23] Webinar[23][12] Weblog[23] Web services[27] Wikiality[43] Workflow[14][44][27]

[edit] Politics and current affairs

Information society[45] Political capital[46]

Stakeholder[47] Truthiness[43]

• Elitist
• Pork-barrel spending

[edit] Other/Uncategorized

Best-in-class[48]

Tiptronic[6]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Buzzwords Gone Bad. Marketing Today. Retrieved on 2008-01-04. “The national poll includes responses from 150 senior executives -- including those from human resources, finance and marketing departments -- with the nation’s 1,000 largest companies.”
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Columbus Alive: Buzz Kill
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Business buzzword hall of fame", Blethen Maine Newspapers, September 2002. Retrieved on 2008-01-04. 
4. ^ Diversity, more than a buzz word, The Daily Campus, February 19, 2004
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} BuzzWhack.com
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Buzzword Hell
7. ^ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
8. ^ ^{a b c} "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN-13: 978-0375753480
9. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords
10. ^ BuzzWhack, The Buzzword-Compliant Dictionary: S
11. ^ American School Board Journal: Case Studies
12. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q} Evolt: Buzzword Bingo
13. ^ ^{a b} India Daily: The coming wave of Knowledge Process Outsourcing
14. ^ ^{a b c d e} Multichannel Merchant: BPO Adaptability: Boardroom Buzzword or Competitive Advantage?
15. ^ WordSpy: buzzword-compliant
16. ^ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
17. ^ ^{a b c} The WordSpy: Business buzzwords category
18. ^ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes Magazine
19. ^ The Register: The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble
20. ^ WordSpy: Low-hanging fruit
21. ^ Global Business Watch: Rightshoring: The Latest Outsourcing Buzzword
22. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Buzzword Alert: Top 20 IT Buzzwords of 2006
23. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Online Consultation Centre of Expertise – Buzzword Glossary
24. ^ AllBusiness: Benchmarking 101
25. ^ Evolt.org: Buzzword Bingo
26. ^ PennPrintOut – The University of Pennsylvania's Online Computing Magazine: Client/Server Computing
27. ^ ^{a b c d e} IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
28. ^ Thirteenth Parallel: Coding For Portability, Part 2
29. ^ Scenta Music Features: Remixing, remastering, rejuvenating
30. ^ Digital Content Producer.com: Picture This: Digital Signage
31. ^ InsideKnowledge Magazine: The winning formula: A blended approach to cross-platform content
32. ^ Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?
33. ^ ^{a b} N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
34. ^ interim thoughts...: Too much innovation
35. ^ The Hindu Business Line : Mobile is the buzzword
36. ^ The Register: Sun takes Storagetek modular
37. ^ Piscataquis County Economic Development Council: UMaine opens state-of-the-art lab
38. ^ [http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/799 Zend Developer Zone: An Interview With George Schlossnagle
39. ^ OE Magazine: The Sporty New JPEG Model
40. ^ OnJava: What Is Struts
41. ^ Personal Democracy Forum
42. ^ BusinessWeek Online: Vortal Combat: The Early Years
43. ^ ^{a b} Global Language Monitor
44. ^ Medical Strategic Planning: EHR Terminology
45. ^ Facet Publishing: Challenge and Change in the Information Society
46. ^ Slate: What is "political capital", anyway?
47. ^ BBC News: Hard hat time for rail champion
48. ^ BuzzWhack: 10 phrases

[edit] 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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