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

[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