Corporate jargon

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Corporate jargon lists jargon often used in business communication of corporations. A slang type or form is called "Corporatese."

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1 Acronyms
2 Nouns
3 Verbs
4 Adjectives
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Acronyms

AOB - Any Other Business
ASAP - as soon as possible
BU - business unit
BAU - Business As Usual
EOB - end of business
EOD - end of day
CAO - Chief Accounting Officer Also, Chief Administrative Officer or Chief Academic Officer
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CCO - Chief Compliance Officer
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
CIO - Chief Information Officer
CISO - Chief Information Security Officer
COB - Close Of Business
COO - Chief Operating Officer
CSA - Customer Service Advisor
CTO - Chief Technical Officer
DBA - doing business as
FY - fiscal year
FYI - for your information
FYIA - for your information and necessary action / for your immediate action
HR - human resources
KPI - Key performance indicators
MNC: multinational company
MOU - memorandum of understanding
OBE - overtaken by events* obsolete
OD - organizational development
OOO - out of office
POC - point of contact
POS - point of sale
PTO - Paid Time Off
R&D - Research and Development
ROI - return on investment
RTM - release to manufacturing
SBU - Strategic Business Unit
SOB - start of business
SOD - start of day
TBD - to be delivered
TBC - to be conformed
TBH - to be hired
TCO - total cost of ownership

[edit] Nouns

Assessment - Benchmark - Best practices - Bottle neck - Change - Coach - Competitive advantage - Conflict resolution - Constraints - Core competencies - Core values - Cracker jack - Critical thinker - Cutting edge practices - Dashboard - Deliverables - Diagnosis - Downsize - Enterprise - Excellence - Flavor of the month - Fire fighter - Game theory - Gatekeeper - Geographically dispersed - Golden handshake - Headhunter - Individual contributor - Leadership - Learning experience - Line of sight - Mad as a hornet - Mastery - Matrix organization - Metrics Milestones - Moving target - Nesting - Not invented here - Individual contributor - Outcomes - Partnership - Practical application - Process - Process management - Product / service environment - Recommendation - Re-engineer - Requirements - Rightsize - Seat at the table - Show case - Six sigma - Standards - State of the art - Superior advantage / performance - Supply chain - Synergy - System - Teamwork - Thought leader - Value added - Womb to tomb

[edit] Verbs

Attract - Champion - Deliver - Dialogue - Execute - Exploit - Facilitate - Forge - Generate - Grow - Implement - Incentivize - Inspire - Integrate - Intervene - Leverage - Manage - Onboarding - Partner - Reach out - Simplify - Spearhead - Strategize - Synergize - Throw a curve - Touch base - Transform - Unify - Utilize