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]
- Buzzword[2]
- Clear goal[4]
- Disruptive innovation[5]
- Diversity[6]
- Empowerment[7][8]
- Exit strategy[7]
- Face time[7]
- Generation X[1]
- Globalization[9]
- Going forward (instead of "in the future")[10]
- Grow[11] – as in "grow the business".
- Headlights - to gain visibility into
- Heavy lifting
- Holistic approach
- Impact[11] – instead of effect as a noun
- Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
- Millennial[1]
- Mind share
- Moving forward[12]
- Fleet Dynamism[13]
- New normal[14]
- On the runway[1]
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[1][11]
- Paradigm[15]
- Paradigm shift[2][16]
- Proactive[11][15]
- Push the envelope
- Roadmap
- Robust
- Reach out[17][18] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
- Sea change[2]
- Sisterhood[19]
- Spin-up[20]
- Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
- Streamline[2]
- Survival strategy[1]
- Sustainability
- Synergy[2][8][11][15]
- Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")[21]
- Wellness[22]
- Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")[23]
- Win-win[1]
Education
- Accountable talk[24]
- Higher-order thinking[25]
- Invested in[26]
- Run like a business[27]
- Student engagement[28][29][30]
- Common Core
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Differentiated instruction
- Digital Literacy
- Flipped Classroom
- Guided Reading
- Instructional Scaffolding
- Multiple Intelligences
- Project-Based Learning
Business, sales and marketing
- Analytics[31]
- 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[32] – portmanteau of "business method".
- Brand[32]
- Brick-and-mortar[16]
- Business process outsourcing[33][34] – also known as BPO.
- Buzzword compliant[35]
- Building capabilities/Capability building[36]
- Client-centric[7]
- Cloud computing[37]
- Close the loop[38]
- Co-opetition[39]
- Come-to-Jesus moment[40]
- Content marketing
- Core competency[41]
- Creative [42]
- Customer-centric[7](also customer-centric mindset)
- Downsizing[7]
- Drill down [43]
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
- Early-stage[44]
- Employer branding
- Eating your own dogfood[7][32] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
- Enable[45]
- Entitlement
- Enterprise[32]
- Event horizon[46]
- Eyeballs[16]
- -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[32]
- Generation Y
- Granular[32]
- Herding cats[7]
- Holistic (approach/integration)[47]
- Home real estate usage for an unoccupied dwelling unit
- Hyperlocal[48]
- Innovation[49]
- Innovative[42]
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[33] – also known as KPO.
- Leverage[50]
- Logistics[51] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
- Long Tail[52]
- Low Hanging Fruit[2][53]
- Make it pop[2]
- Mindshare[16]
- Mission Critical[16]
- Management Visibility[16]
- New economy[16]
- Next generation[32]
- Offshoring[46] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
- Opportunities
- Pain point[18][54]
- Paralysis by Analysis[55]
- Passionate [56]
- Profit center
- Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[32] – Processing returned products.
- Rightshoring[57]
- Seamless (integration)[58]
- Serum
- Share options[32]
- Solution[1]
- SOX[59] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Sustainability[60]
- Storytelling
- Startup
- Take Offline[61]
- Talent Relationship Management
- Tiger team
- Touchpoint[62]
- Value-added[1]
- Visibility[46]
- Water under the bridge [63]
Science and technology
- 4G[59]
- Aggregator[64]
- Agile[65]
- Ajax[8][59]
- Algorithm[66]
- Benchmarking[67]
- Back-end[32]
- Beta[8]
- Big data - larger data sets than last month [68]
- Bleeding edge[32]
- Blog[64] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
- Bricks-and-clicks[32][32]
- Clickthrough[32]
- Cloud[69]
- Collaboration[70]
- Content management[70]
- Content Management System[64] – also known as CMS.
- Convergence[71]
- Cross-platform[32]
- Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)
- Datafication[72]
- Data mining[73] - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
- Data science[74]
- Deep dive[18]
- Deep web[75] - used interchageably with "Dark web" even though they're not the same
- Design pattern[76]
- DevOps[77]
- Digital divide[64]
- Digital Remastering[78]
- Digital Rights Management[8] – also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[79]
- Disruptive Technologies[80]
- Document management[70]
- Dot-bomb[16][32]
- ____-Driven Development[81]
- E-learning[82]
- End-to-End
- Engine[83]
- Enterprise Content Management[64] – also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[84] – also known as ESB.
- Evolution - Often use ambiguously in political or sociological arguments in reference to theories of social Darwinism. (e.x. "Society has evolved.")
- Framework[8]
- Folksonomy[64]
- Fuzzy logic[85]
- Growth Hacking
- HTML5[86]
- Immersion[87]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[8]
- Internet of Things[88]
- Innovation[89]
- Machine Learning
- Mashup[8]
- Microservices
- Mobile[90]
- Modularity[91][92]
- Nanotechnology[93]
- Netiquette[64]
- Next Generation[87] (also "NextGen")
- PaaS
- Podcasting[59][64]
- Portal[32]
- Real-time[64]
- Responsive Web Design[94]
- Sensorization[95]
- SaaS[59]
- Scalability[96][97]
- Skeuomorphic
- Social bookmarking[59]
- Social software[64]
- SDN- Software defined Networking
- Spam[64]
- Strategic Ineptness
- Sync-up[16]
- Systems Development Life-Cycle
- Tagging[64]
- Technological Masturbation
- Think outside the box[64]
- Transmedia[98]
- UC - Unified Communications
- User generated content[99]
- Viral
- Virtualization[59]
- Vlogging[64]
- Vortal[100]
- Web 2.0[8][59][64]
- Webinar[32][64]
- Weblog[64]
- Web services[70]
- Wikiality[101]
- Workflow[70][102][103]
Politics and current affairs
Other
See also
References
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Buzzword Bingo". evolt.org.
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- ↑ Disruptive innovation
- ↑ Test-driven development, Behavior-driven development, Feature-driven development
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- 1 2 N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
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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
- Exhaustive List of Jargons for MBAs
- The Most Overused Buzzwords in Public Relations
- The Corporate Bullshit Generator
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