Talk:List of buzzwords
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[edit] How about
- The information super highway
- Sounds good to me. Duly added (as "Information superhighway"), along with "Information highway". Careax 20:59, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
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- Matt13 21:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Strategic. The word is most often used by managers as a fancy way of saying "important" or "not a total waste of time", which is in fact what the word litterally means, although it sounds nicer. By definition, "strategic" means that something contributes to a strategy. A strategy is a means of achieving a desired result. Hence, "strategic" means something that contributes to a desired result, or objective. Therefore, something which is not strategic, would be something that does not help contribute to any desired objective, and hence is totaly useless. If something that is unstrategic is useless, it follows that "staregic" is simply a way of saying "not useless". As such, it is a meaningless word to attach to most phrases.
[edit] What anout business intelligence?
Hello, I think business intelligence fits buzzword's definition because it describes a non-intelligent (at least as intelligent as most of other common technologies) technique for data analysis. It is used in most of business/consultant current vocabulary to describe an old and elemental procedure.
[edit] Adding references for buzzwords
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I've been adding references for existing words. At some point, after other contributors have received due warning, someone should probably go through and remove any words/phrases that don't have references. Cheers, Careax 21:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
