List of buzzwords
This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the jargon of corporate, academic, government, and everyday work and social environments, as well as by writers and public speakers.
General conversation
- Alignment[1]
- At the end of the day[1]
- Break through the clutter[2]
- Bring to the table[3]
- Booger Flicker
- Boil the Frog
- Buzzword[2]
- Calibrate expectations
- Clear goal[4]
- Countless
- Disruptive innovation[5]
- Diversity[6]
- Empowerment[7][8]
- Exit strategy[7]
- Functional training
- Face time[7]
- Generation X[1]
- Globalization[9]
- Going forward (instead of "in the future")
- Grow[10] – as in "grow the business".
- Headlights - to gain visibility into
- Holistic Approach
- Impact[10] – instead of effect as a noun
- Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
- Milestone
- Moving forward[11]
- New normal
- New Sincerity
- On the runway[1]*
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[1][10]
- Paradigm[12]
- Paradigm shift[2][13]*
- Proactive[10][12]
- Push the envelope
- Reach out[14][15] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
- Relaying
- Robust
- Sea change (transformation)[2]
- Sisterhood
- Spin-up[16]
- Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
- Streamline[2]
- Survival strategy[1]
- Sustainability
- Synergy[2][8][10][12]
- The Sale is completed. We just have the pick and shovel work left.
- Touch base
- Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")
- Wellness[17]
- Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")
- Win-win[1]
Education
- Accountable talk[18]
- Higher-order thinking[19]
- Invested in[20]
- Run like a business[21]
- Student engagement[22][23][24]
- Common Core
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Differentiated instruction
- Digital Literacy
- Flipped Classroom
- Guided Reading
- Instructional Scaffolding
- Multiple Intelligences
- Project-Based Learning
- Adaptive Learning
- Brain Break
- Cooperative Learning
Business, sales and marketing
- Analytics[25]*
- Ballpark figure[7]
- Bandwidth[1]
- Business-to-Business[7] – also known as B2B.
- Business-to-Consumer[7] – also known as B2C.
- Best of Breed[7]
- Best practices[7]
- Bizmeth[26] – portmanteau of "business method".
- Boil the frog
- Boil the ocean
- Brand[26]
- Brick-and-mortar[13]
- Business process outsourcing[27][28] – also known as BPO.
- Buzzword compliant[29]
- Building Capabilities
- Cast a wider net
- CBOW - Chief Broker of Workloads
- Client-centric[7]
- Cloud computing
- Close the loop
- Co-opetition[30]
- Come-to-Jesus moment
- Content marketing[31]
- Core competency[32]
- Customer-centric[7](also customer-centric mindset)
- Deep dive
- Downsizing[7]
- Crystallization[7]
- Drain the Pond
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
- Employer Branding
- Eating your own dogfood[7][26] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
- Enable[33]
- Entitlement
- Enterprise[26]
- Event horizon[34]
- Eyeballs[13]
- -free, as in cholesterol-free seaweed or gluten-free eggs, lacking some putatively harmful substance that it never contained in the first place.
- Free value[2]
- Fulfilment issues[26]
- Generation Y
- Granular[26]
- Guard rails
- Herding cats, a art that has been lost in modern times[7]
- Hitting our numbers
- Holistic (approach/integration)[35]
- Hyperlocal[36]
- Innovation[37]
- Integrated Marketing Solution
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[27] – also known as KPO.
- Leverage[38]
- Logistics[39] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
- Long Tail[40]
- Low Hanging Fruit[2][41]
- Make it pop[2]
- Mindshare[13]
- Mission Critical[13]
- Management Visibility[13]
- New economy[13]
- Next generation[26]
- Offshoring[34] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
- Pain point[42][15]
- Paralysis by Analysis
- Part of our DNA
- Peel back the onion
- Pick and Shovel Work
- Quick-win
- Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[26] – Processing returned products.
- Rightshoring[43]
- Seamless (integration)[44]
- Serum
- Share options[26]
- Shoot (As in, "Shoot me an e-mail about that")
- Short Runway
- Social Currency
- Socialize
- Solution[1]
- SOX[45] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Sustainability[46]
- Storytelling
- Startup
- Strategy
- Synergy
- Talent Relationship Management
- Tee off (begin something, i.e. a meeting or program)
- Touchpoint[47]
- Transparency
- Upselling
- Upcycling
- Value-added[1]
- Visibility[34]
- We need all hands on deck
- Wood behind the arrow
Science and technology
- 4G[45]
- Aggregator[48]
- Agile[49]
- Ajax[8][45]
- Algorithm[50]
- Benchmarking[51]
- Back-end[26]
- Beta[8]
- Big data - larger data sets than last month
- Bleeding edge[26]
- Blog[48] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
- Bricks-and-clicks[26][52]
- Clickthrough[26]
- Cloud[53]
- Collaboration[54]
- Content management[54]
- Content Management System[48] – also known as CMS.
- Convergence[55]
- Cross-platform[26]
- Crowdsourcing[56]
- Datafication[57]
- Data mining[58] - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
- Data science
- Deep dive[15]
- Design pattern[59]
- DevOps[60]
- Digital divide[48]
- Digital Remastering[61]
- Digital Rights Management[8] – also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[62]
- Disruptive Technologies[63]
- Document management[54]
- Dot-bomb[13][26]
- E-learning[64]
- Engine[65]
- Enterprise Content Management[48] – also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[66] – also known as ESB.
- Framework[8]
- Folksonomy[48]
- Fuzzy logic[67]
- HTML5[68]
- Immersion[69]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[8]
- Internet of Things[70]
- Innovation[71]
- Mashup[8]
- Mobile[72]
- Modularity[73][74]
- Nanotechnology[75]
- Netiquette[48]
- Next Generation[69] (also "NextGen")
- Pandering
- PaaS
- Performant
- Pizzazz[76]
- Podcasting[45][48]
- Portal[26]
- Real-time[48]
- Responsive[77]
- Sensorization[78]
- SaaS[45]
- Scalability[79][80]
- Skeuomorphic
- Social bookmarking[45]
- Social software[48]
- Spam[48]
- Struts[81]
- Sync-up[13]
- Systems Development Life-Cycle
- Tagging[48]
- Think outside the box[48]
- Transmedia[82]
- User generated content[83]
- Viral
- Virtualization[45]
- Vlogging[48]
- Vortal[84]
- Web 2.0[8][45][48]
- Webinar[26][48]
- Weblog[48]
- Web services[54]
- Wikiality[85]
- Workflow[54][86][87]
Politics and current affairs
- Big society[88]
- Information society[89]
- Political capital[90]
- Statist[91]
- Stakeholder[92]
- Global Citizen
Other/Uncategorized
See also
- Buzzword bingo
- Cant (language)
- Shibboleth
- Stunt word
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Buzzwords Gone Bad". Marketing Today. 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 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
- ↑ , Slate, May 1, 2013
- ↑ Diversity, more than a buzz word, The Daily Campus, February 19, 2004
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 BuzzWhack.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 Buzzword Hell
- ↑ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 "Business buzzword hall of fame". Blethen Maine Newspapers. September 2002. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- ↑ Megan Patrick (2011-01-18), Most Annoying Buzzwords, retrieved 2013-01-10
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN 978-0-375-75348-0
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords
- ↑ http://www.thedailymuse.com/career/business-jargon/ Business Buzzwords to Banish from your Vocabulary, by Anneke Jong, September 15, 2011 accessed 7 Sep 2012
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Is it time to buck the buzzword trend?, The Age
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Chris Opsal, "Engagement: A Brief Visual Overview of an Educational Buzzword" https://attendengageinvest.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/engagement-a-brief-visual-overview-of-an-educational-buzzword/
- ↑ Michael D. Spiegler, "Reflections on the 2010 Student Engagement Seminar" http://www.providence.edu/cte/Documents/spiegler.pdf
- ↑ Kenny, G. Kenny, D. and Dumont, R. (1995) Mission and Place: Strengthening Learning and Community Through Campus Design. Oryx/Greenwood. p. 37
- ↑ 'Analytics' buzzword needs careful definition. 7 February 2006. Accessed on: 6 January 2010
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 26.10 26.11 26.12 26.13 26.14 26.15 26.16 Evolt: Buzzword Bingo
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 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?
- ↑ Content Continues to Remain as the Vital Component of Online Marketing
- ↑
- ↑ http://www.learnings.org/learn.asp?word=enable&d=101
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 The WordSpy: Business buzzwords category
- ↑ http://www.funkydragon.org.uk/en/fe/page.asp?n1=1105&n2=21&n3=1164&n4=70
- ↑ What looms large on the media landscape as we hurtle towards 2012?, Irish Times
- ↑ , Inc
- ↑ http://www.adamsherk.com/public-relations/most-overused-press-release-buzzwords/
- ↑ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes magazine
- ↑ The Register: The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble
- ↑ WordSpy: Low-hanging fruit
- ↑ Buzzword of the Week: Bringing the 'Pain Point'
- ↑ Global Business Watch: Rightshoring: The Latest Outsourcing Buzzword
- ↑ http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/4/2/buzzword
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 45.5 45.6 45.7 Buzzword Alert: Top 20 IT Buzzwords of 2006
- ↑ The new business buzzword is: sustainability
- ↑ Talking Work: Buzz-off Buzzwords
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.4 48.5 48.6 48.7 48.8 48.9 48.10 48.11 48.12 48.13 48.14 48.15 48.16 Online Consultation Centre of Expertise – Buzzword Glossary
- ↑ Spreading Jam Blog - In Development: Is 'Agile' Just Another Buzzword?
- ↑ Consumer Reports, "Buzzword: Algorithm"
- ↑ AllBusiness: Benchmarking 101
- ↑ Evolt.org: Buzzword Bingo
- ↑ David F. Flanders (16 October 2008). "Cloud Buzzword Glossary".
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 54.3 54.4 IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
- ↑ Convergence Culture Consortium: The Convergence Manifesto I: Convergence – The Buzzword
- ↑
- ↑ Cukier, Kenneth; Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor (2013). "The Rise of Big Data". Foreign Affairs, (May/June): 28–40. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
- ↑ OKAIRP 2005 Fall Conference, Arizona State University
- ↑ Thirteenth Parallel: Coding For Portability, Part 2
- ↑ Industry Watch: Behind the APM and DevOps buzzwords
- ↑ Scenta Music Features: Remixing, remastering, rejuvenating
- ↑ Digital Content Producer.com: Picture This: Digital Signage
- ↑ Disruptive innovation
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 69.0 69.1 N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
- ↑ Internet of Things: The Future of Your Business Technology | Microsoft
- ↑ 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
- ↑ HTML9 Responsive BoilerStrap
- ↑ Gerard Meijer (2008). Smart Sensor Systems. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–404. ISBN 978-0-470-86692-4.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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?
- ↑
- ↑ BBC News: Hard hat time for rail champion
- ↑ "
- ↑ BuzzWhack: 10 phrases