List of buzzwords

This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments and which are also commonly used in government and academia as well as by writers and public speakers.

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

General conversation

Alignment^[1]
At the end of the day^[1]
Break through the clutter^[2]
Bring to the table^[3]
Buzzword^[2]
Clear goal^[4]
Diversity^[5]
Empowerment^[6]^[7]
Exit strategy^[6]
Face time^[6]
Fun^[6]
Generation X^[1]
Globalization^[8]
Grow^[9] – as in "grow the business".
Impact^[9] – instead of effect as a noun
Leverage^[2] --used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
On the runway^[1]
Organic growth^[2]
Outside the box^[1]^[9]
Paradigm^[10]
Paradigm shift^[2]^[11]
Proactive^[9]^[10]
Sea change (transformation)^[2]
Spin-up^[12]
Streamline^[2]
Survival strategy^[1]
Synergy^[2]^[9]^[7]^[10]
Wellness^[13]
Win-win^[1]

Education

Accountable talk^[14]
Higher-order thinking^[15]
Invested in^[16]
Run like a business^[17]

Business, sales and marketing

Analytics^[18]
Ballpark Figure^[6]
Bandwidth^[1]
Business-to-Business^[6] – also known as B2B.
Business-to-Consumer^[6] – also known as B2C.
Best of Breed^[6]
Best practices^[6]
Bizmeth^[19] – shortening of "business method".
Brand^[19]
Brick-and-mortar^[11]
Business Process Outsourcing^[20]^[21] – also known as BPO.
Buzzword compliant^[22]
Client-centric^[6]
Co-opetition^[23]
Core competency^[24]
Customer-centric^[6](also customer-centric mindset)
Downsizing^[6]
Drinking the Kool-Aid^[6] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
Eating your own dogfood^[6]^[19] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
Enterprise^[19]
Event horizon^[25]
Eyeballs^[11]
Free value^[2]
Fulfilment issues^[19]
Granular^[19]
Herding cats^[6]
Holistic (approach/integration)^[26]
Knowledge Process Outsourcing^[20] – also known as KPO.
Logistics^[27] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
Long Tail^[28]
Low Hanging Fruit^[2]^[29]
Make it pop^[2]
Mindshare^[11]
Mission Critical^[11]
Management Visibility^[11]
New economy^[11]
Next generation^[19]
Offshoring^[25] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
Return on Investment^[2] – also known as ROI.
Reverse fulfilment^[19] – Processing returned products.
Rightshoring^[30]
Seamless (integration)^[31]
Share options^[19]
Solution^[1]
SOX^[32] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
Sustainability^[33]
Value-added^[1]
Visibility^[25]

Science and technology

3G^[32]
Aggregator^[34]
Ajax^[7]^[32]
Benchmarking^[35]
Back-end^[19]
Beta^[7]
Bleeding edge^[19]
Blog^[34] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
Bricks-and-clicks^[19]^[36]
Clickthrough^[19]
Cloud^[37]
Collaboration^[38]
Content management^[38]
Content Management System^[34] – also known as CMS.
Convergence^[39]
Cross-platform^[19]
Design pattern^[40]
Digital divide^[34]
Digital Remastering^[41]
Digital Rights Management^[7] – also known as DRM.
Digital signage^[42]
Document management^[38]
Dot-bomb^[11]^[19]
Download^[1]
E-learning^[43]
Enterprise Content Management^[34] – also known as ECM.
Enterprise Service Bus^[44] – also known as ESB.
Framework^[7]
Folksonomy^[34]
Fuzzy logic^[45]
HTML5^[46]
Immersion^[47]
Information superhighway / Information highway^[7]
Innovation^[48]
Mashup^[7]
Mobile^[49]
Modularity^[50]^[51]
Nanotechnology^[52]
Netiquette^[34]
Next Generation^[47] (also "NextGen")
Pizzazz^[53]
Podcasting^[32]^[34]
Portal^[19]
Real-time^[34]
SaaS^[32]
Scalability^[54]^[55]
Social bookmarking^[32]
Social software^[34]
Spam^[34]
Struts^[56]
Sync-up^[11]
Tagging^[34]
Think outside the box^[34]
Transmedia^[57]
User generated content^[58]
Virtualization^[32]
Vlogging^[34]
Vortal^[59]
Web 2.0^[7]^[32]^[34]
Webinar^[19]^[34]
Weblog^[34]
Web services^[38]
Wikiality^[60]
Workflow^[38]^[61]^[62]

Politics and current affairs

Other/Uncategorized

Best-in-class^[69]
Tiptronic^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Buzzwords Gone Bad". Marketing Today. http://www.marketingtoday.com/personalbrandceo/0104/buzzwords_gone_bad.htm. Retrieved 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."
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Columbus Alive: Buzz Kill
^ http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon.htm
^ "Georgia Aspires to “Lead the Nation in Improving Student Achievement” US Education Delivery Institute http://www.deliveryinstitute.org/deliveryinaction/georgia-aspires-%E2%80%9Clead-nation-improving-student-achievement%E2%80%9D
^ Diversity, more than a buzz word, The Daily Campus, February 19, 2004
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o BuzzWhack.com
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Buzzword Hell
^ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Business buzzword hall of fame". Blethen Maine Newspapers. September 2002. http://www.business.mainetoday.com/smallbusiness/mmm/index.buzzwordpoll.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN 978-0375753480
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords
^ BuzzWhack, The Buzzword-Compliant Dictionary: S
^ American School Board Journal: Case Studies
^ http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/reports/r670.pdf
^ by Kevin Killion, "Education Buzzwords: Image and Reality"
^ RICE Fund: Hedge Fund Monthly: The RICE Fund: Returns Invested in Children and Education http://www.eurekahedge.com/news/06_june_the_RICE_fund.asp
^ Tom Abate, "Would Kids Be Better Off If Schools Were Run Like Business? / Silicon Valley execs propose ballot initiative" http://articles.sfgate.com/1998-09-08/business/17729946_1_public-school-silicon-valley-public-education
^ 'Analytics' buzzword needs careful definition. 7 February 2006. Accessed on: 6 January 2010
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Evolt: Buzzword Bingo
^ ^a ^b India Daily: The coming wave of Knowledge Process Outsourcing
^ Multichannel Merchant: BPO Adaptability: Boardroom Buzzword or Competitive Advantage?
^ WordSpy: buzzword-compliant
^ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
^ [1]
^ ^a ^b ^c The WordSpy: Business buzzwords category
^ http://www.funkydragon.org.uk/en/fe/page.asp?n1=1105&n2=21&n3=1164&n4=70
^ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes Magazine
^ The Register: The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble
^ WordSpy: Low-hanging fruit
^ Global Business Watch: Rightshoring: The Latest Outsourcing Buzzword
^ http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/4/2/buzzword
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Buzzword Alert: Top 20 IT Buzzwords of 2006
^ The new business buzzword is: sustainability
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Online Consultation Centre of Expertise – Buzzword Glossary
^ AllBusiness: Benchmarking 101
^ Evolt.org: Buzzword Bingo
^ David F. Flanders (16 October 2008). "Cloud Buzzword Glossary". http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/cloud-buzzword-glossary/.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
^ Convergence Culture Consortium: The Convergence Manifesto I: Convergence--The Buzzword
^ Thirteenth Parallel: Coding For Portability, Part 2
^ Scenta Music Features: Remixing, remastering, rejuvenating
^ Digital Content Producer.com: Picture This: Digital Signage
^ InsideKnowledge Magazine: The winning formula: A blended approach to cross-platform content
^ Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?
^ FAQs.org: Introduction to Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control
^ HTML5 is a Brand
^ ^a ^b N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
^ interim thoughts...: Too much innovation
^ The Hindu Business Line : Mobile is the buzzword
^ University of Minnesota, Center for Cognitive Sciences: The modularity of mind
^ The Register: Sun takes Storagetek modular
^ Piscataquis County Economic Development Council: UMaine opens state-of-the-art lab
^ Pizzazz Explained
^ Zend Developer Zone: An Interview With George Schlossnagle
^ OE Magazine: The Sporty New JPEG Model
^ OnJava: What Is Struts
^ Transmedia tales and the future of storytelling, Wired UK
^ Personal Democracy Forum
^ BusinessWeek Online: Vortal Combat: The Early Years
^ ^a ^b Global Language Monitor
^ Communication Arts Magazine: Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works
^ Medical Strategic Planning: EHR Terminology
^ Big Society
^ Facet Publishing: Challenge and Change in the Information Society
^ Slate: What is "political capital", anyway?
^ [2]
^ "Socialism And The Politics Of Fear". CBS News. 2009-07-22. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/22/opinion/main5180886.shtml.
^ BBC News: Hard hat time for rail champion
^ BuzzWhack: 10 phrases