List of buzzwords
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Below is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments.
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[edit] General Conversation
- Absolutely[1]
- Breakthrough the clutter[2]
- Buzzword[2] - the word itself is widely considered to be a buzzword.
- Disconnect[3]
- Empowerment[1][4]
- Exit strategy[1]
- Face time[1]
- Impact[3] - instead of effect as a noun, or affect as a verb.
- Leverage[5][2]
- Globalization[6]
- Grow[3] - as in "grow the business".
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[3]
- Paradigm[7]
- Paradigm shift[8][2]
- Proactive[7][3]
- Sea Change[2]
- Spin-up[9]
- Streamline[2]
- Synergy[4][7][3][2]
- Wellness[10]
[edit] Business, Sales and Marketing
- Business-to-Business[1] - also knowna s B2B.
- Business-to-Consumer[1] - also known as B2C.
- Best of Breed[1]
- Best practices[1]
- Bizmeth[11] - shortening of "business method".
- Brand[11]
- Brick-and-mortar[8]
- Business Process Outsourcing[12][13] - also known as BPO.
- Buzzword-compliant[14]
- Client-centric[1]
- Co-opetition[15]
- Customer-centric[1]
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[1] - refers to the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid used by Jim Jones cult as a metaphore for how some dot-com employees were treated.
- Eat their own dog food[1][11] - also known simply as "dog food", meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others.
- Enterprise[11]
- Event horizon[16]
- Eyeballs[8]
- Free value[2]
- Fulfilment issues[11]
- Granular[11]
- Herding cats[1]
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[12] - also known as KPO.
- Long Tail[17]
- Low Hanging Fruit[18][2]
- Make it pop[2]
- Mindshare[8]
- New economy[8]
- Next generation[11]
- Offshoring[16] - also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
- Return on Investment[2] - also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[11]
- Rightshoring[19]
- Share options[11]
- SOX[20] - abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Visibility[16]
[edit] Science and Technology
- 3G[20]
- Aggregator[21]
- Ajax[4][20]
- Asynchronous[21]
- Benchmarking[22]
- Back-end[11]
- Bandwidth[8]
- Beta[4]
- Bleeding edge[11]
- Blog[21] - plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bluetooth[20]
- Bricks-and-clicks[11][23]
- Broadband[21]
- Clickthrough[11]
- Client/server[24]
- Collaboration[25]
- Content management[25]
- Content Management System[21] - also known as CMS.
- Convergence[13]
- Cross-platform[11]
- Design pattern[26]
- Digital divide[21]
- Remastering[27] - including digitally remastering.
- Digital Rights Management[4] - also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[28]
- Document management[25]
- Dot-bomb[8][11]
- E-learning[29]
- E-mail[21] - the shortened for of 'electronic mail'.
- Emoticon[21]
- Enterprise Content Management[21] - also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[30] - also known as ESB.
- Flaming[21]
- Flash[11]
- Framework[4]
- Folksonomy[21]
- Front-end[11]
- Fuzzy logic[13]
- Google[4]
- Immersion[31]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[4]
- Instant messaging[21][25]
- Modularity[13][32]
- Nanotechnology[33]
- Netiquette[21]
- Newsgroup[21]
- Next Generation[31]
- Offline[8][4]
- Podcasting[20][21]
- Portal[11]
- RSS[4][20][21]
- Real-time[21]
- SaaS[20]
- Scalability[34][35]
- Social bookmarking[20]
- Social software[21]
- Spam[21]
- Struts[36]
- Synchronous[21]
- Sync-up[8]
- Syndication[21]
- Tagging[21]
- Thread[21]
- User generated content[37]
- Virtualization[20]
- Vlogging[21]
- VoIP[4][20]
- Vortal[38]
- Web 2.0[4][20][21]
- Webinar[21][11]
- Weblog[21]
- Web services[25]
- WiFi[4]
- Wiki[4]
- Wikiality[39]
- Workflow[13][40][25]
- XML[20]
- Y2K[8]
[edit] Politics and Current Affairs
[edit] Other/Uncategorized
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m BuzzWhack, a Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Columbus Alive: Buzz Kill
- ^ a b c d e f Maine Today - Business: Business buzzword hall of fame
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Buzzword Hell
- ^ Urban Dictionary: Leverage
- ^ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
- ^ a b c "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN-13: 978-0375753480
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords
- ^ BuzzWhack, The Buzzword-Compliant Dictionary: S
- ^ American School Board Journal: Case Studies
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Evolt: Buzzword Bingo
- ^ a b India Daily: The coming wave of Knowledge Process Outsourcing
- ^ a b c d e Multichannel Merchant: BPO Adaptability: Boardroom Buzzword or Competitive Advantage?
- ^ WordSpy: buzzword-compliant
- ^ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
- ^ a b c The WordSpy: Business buzzwords category
- ^ The Register: The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble
- ^ WordSpy: Low-hanging fruit
- ^ Global Business Watch: Rightshoring: The Latest Outsourcing Buzzword
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Buzzword Alert: Top 20 IT Buzzwords of 2006
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Online Consultation Centre of Expertise - Buzzword Glossary
- ^ AllBusiness: Benchmarking 101
- ^ Evolt.org: Buzzword Bingo
- ^ PennPrintOut - The University of Pennsylvania's Online Computing Magazine: Client/Server Computing
- ^ a b c d e f IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
- ^ 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
- ^ [http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci913058,00.html Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?]
- ^ a b N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
- ^ The Register: Sun takes Storagetek modular
- ^ Piscataquis County Economic Development Council: UMaine opens state-of-the-art lab
- ^ [http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/799 Zend Developer Zone: An Interview With George Schlossnagle
- ^ OE Magazine: The Sporty New JPEG Model
- ^ OnJava: What Is Struts
- ^ Personal Democracy Forum
- ^ BusinessWeek Online: Vortal Combat: The Early Years
- ^ a b Global Language Monitor
- ^ Medical Strategic Planning: EHR Terminology
- ^ 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
