List of buzzwords
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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.
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General conversation [edit]
- Alignment[1]
- At the end of the day[1]
- Break through the clutter[2]
- Bring to the table[3]
- Buzzword[2]
- Clear goal[4]
- Countless
- Disrupt[5]
- Diversity[6]
- Empowerment[7][8]
- Exit strategy[7]
- Face time[7]
- Fun
- Generation X[1]
- Globalization[9]
- Grow[10] – as in "grow the business".
- Impact[10] – instead of effect as a noun
- Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
- Milestone
- Moving forward[11]
- On the runway[1]
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[1][10]
- Paradigm[12]
- Paradigm shift[2][13]
- Proactive[10][12]
- Reach out [14][15] – as in "reach out to him for support".
- Sea change (transformation)[2]
- Spin-up[16]
- Streamline[2]
- Survival strategy[1]
- Sustainability
- Synergy[2][8][10][12]
- Wellness[17]
- Win-win[1]
Education [edit]
- Accountable talk[18]
- Higher-order thinking[19]
- Invested in[20]
- Run like a business[21]
- Student engagement[22][23][24]
Business, sales and marketing [edit]
- 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 place to work
- Best practices[7]
- Bizmeth[26] – portmanteau of "business method".
- Brand[26]
- Brick-and-mortar[13]
- Business process outsourcing[27][28] – also known as BPO.
- Buzzword compliant[29]
- Building Capabilities
- Client-centric[7]
- Cloud Computing [30]
- Co-opetition[31]
- Core competency[32]
- Customer-centric[7](also customer-centric mindset)
- Downsizing[7]
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
- 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 value[2]
- Fulfilment issues[26]
- Granular[26]
- Herding cats[7]
- Holistic (approach/integration)[35]
- Hyperlocal[36]
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[27] – also known as KPO.
- Leverage[37]
- Logistics[38] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
- Long Tail[39]
- Low Hanging Fruit[2][40]
- 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[41][15]
- Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[26] – Processing returned products.
- Rightshoring[42]
- Seamless (integration)[43]
- Serum
- Share options[26]
- Solution[1]
- SOX[44] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Sustainability[45]
- Touchpoint[46]
- Value-added[1]
- Visibility[34]
Science and technology [edit]
- 3G[44]
- Aggregator[47]
- Ajax[8][44]
- Benchmarking[48]
- Back-end[26]
- Beta[8]
- Big data - larger data sets than last month
- Bleeding edge[26]
- Blog[47] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bluetooth
- Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
- Bricks-and-clicks[26][49]
- Clickthrough[26]
- Cloud[50]
- Collaboration[51]
- Content management[51]
- Content Management System[47] – also known as CMS.
- Convergence[52]
- Cross-platform[26]
- Datafication
- Data mining - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
- Data science[53]
- Deep dive[15]
- Design pattern[54]
- DevOps[55]
- Digital divide[47]
- Digital Remastering[56]
- Digital Rights Management[8] – also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[57]
- Document management[51]
- Dot-bomb[13][26]
- E-learning[58]
- Engine[59]
- Enterprise Content Management[47] – also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[60] – also known as ESB.
- Framework[8]
- Folksonomy[47]
- Fuzzy logic[61]
- HTML5[62]
- Immersion[63]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[8]
- Innovation[64]
- Mashup[8]
- Mobile[65]
- Modularity[66][67]
- Nanotechnology[68]
- Netiquette[47]
- Next Generation[63] (also "NextGen")
- PaaS
- Pizzazz[69]
- Podcasting[44][47]
- Portal[26]
- Real-time[47]
- Responsive[70]
- SaaS[44]
- Scalability[71][72]
- Skeuomorphic
- Social bookmarking[44]
- Social software[47]
- Spam[47]
- Struts[73]
- Sync-up[13]
- Tagging[47]
- Think outside the box[47]
- Transmedia[74]
- User generated content[75]
- Virtualization[44]
- Vlogging[47]
- Vortal[76]
- Web 2.0[8][44][47]
- Webinar[26][47]
- Weblog[47]
- Web services[51]
- Wikiality[77]
- Workflow[51][78][79]
- Pandering
Politics and current affairs [edit]
- Big society[80]
- Information society[81]
- Political capital[82]
- Socialist[83][84]
- Stakeholder[85]
- Truthiness[77]
- Warfighter
- Plutocracy
Other/Uncategorized [edit]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "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."
- ^ 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
- ^ [1], Slate, May 1, 20013
- ^ 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 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. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- ^ Megan Patrick (2011-01-18), Most Annoying Buzzwords, retrieved 2013-01-10
- ^ a b c "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN 978-0-375-75348-0
- ^ a b c d e f g h i 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
- ^ a b c 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Cloud Computing
- ^ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://www.learnings.org/learn.asp?word=enable&d=101
- ^ 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
- ^ What looms large on the media landscape as we hurtle towards 2012?, Irish Times
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h Buzzword Alert: Top 20 IT Buzzwords of 2006
- ^ The new business buzzword is: sustainability
- ^ Talking Work: Buzz-off Buzzwords
- ^ 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".
- ^ a b c d e IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
- ^ Convergence Culture Consortium: The Convergence Manifesto I: Convergence – The Buzzword
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science#Internet_Forums
- ^ 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
- ^ InsideKnowledge Magazine: The winning formula: A blended approach to cross-platform content
- ^ [3]
- ^ 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[dead link]
- ^ HTML9 Responsive BoilerStrap
- ^ 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?
- ^ [4]
- ^ "Socialism And The Politics Of Fear". CBS News. 2009-07-22.
- ^ BBC News: Hard hat time for rail champion
- ^ BuzzWhack: 10 phrases
