List of corporate jargon

Corporate jargon lists jargon often used in business communication of corporations. A slang type or form is called "corporatese." Corporate jargon is not confined to business and can also be found in education and government departments.

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Initialisms

• 24/7 & 7/52
• AFS - Available for Sale
• AOB - Any Other Business
• AOP - Annual Operating Plan
• ASAP - as soon as possible
• BAU - Business As Usual
• BR/KR - Best Regards/Kind Regards
• BU - business unit
• BTW - by the way
• CAO - Chief Accounting Officer Also, Chief Administrative Officer or Chief Academic Officer
• CEO - Chief Executive Officer
• CPO - Chief People Officer also Chief Procurement Officer
• CCO - Chief Compliance Officer
• CCG - Corporate Consultancy Group
• CFO - Chief Financial Officer
• CIO - Chief Information Officer also Chief Investment Officer
• CISO - Chief Information Security Officer
• CMO - Chief Marketing Officer
• COB - Close Of Business
• COO - Chief Operating Officer
• COP - Close of Play
• CSA - Customer Service Advisor
• CTO - Chief Technical Officer
• DBA - doing business as
• EDD - Estimated Delivery Date
• ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
• EOB - A bastardisation of EOD and COB. Not in common use.
• EOD - end of day
• EOM - end of message
• EOY - end of year
• ER - Earnings Release
• FBS - Functional Business Unit
• FOC - Free of Charge
• FY - fiscal year
• FTE - full time equivalent
• FYI - for your information
• FYIA - for your information and necessary action / for your immediate action
• F2F - Face to Face
• HIBBIS - Heads in Beds, Butts in Seats (Used in the hotel industry)
• HR - human resources
• IRO - In respect of
• JD - Job Description
• KPI - Key performance indicators
• LEA - Local Education Authority
• MNC: multinational company
• MOU - memorandum of understanding
• MOM - minutes of meeting
• NDA - Non-disclosure agreement
• OBE - overtaken by events* obsolete
• OD - organisational development
• OOO / OOTO - out of (the) office
• PFA - please find attached
• PFB - please find below
• POC - point of contact, proof of concept
• POS - point of sale
• PP - payback period
• P.S. - Postscript text after the main body of an email
• PTO - Paid Time Off
• QPR - Quarterly Performance Report
• QQ - Quick Question
• R&D - Research and Development
• RFP - Request for Proposal
• RIF - Reduction in Force
• ROI - return on investment
• RTM - release to manufacturing
• SBU - Strategic Business Unit
• SME - Subject Matter Expert
• SOB - start of business
• SOD - start of day
• SOW - Statement of work
• SVP - senior Vice president
• TAT - Turn Around Time
• TBA - to be announced
• TBD - to be determined
• TBC - to be confirmed
• TBH - to be hired
• TCO - total cost of ownership
• USP - Unique Selling Proposition/Point
• VP - Vice president
• WC - Week Commencing
• WE - Week Ending
• WRT - With respect to
• YTD - Year to date

Nouns

Assessment - Bandwidth - Benchmarking/Benchmark - Best practice - Best practice methodology - Bottle neck - Change - Coach/Couch the idea - Compensation actions - Competitive advantage - Conflict resolution - Constraints - Core competencies - Core values - Cracker jack - Critical thinker - Cutting edge practices - Dashboard - Deliverable/s - Diagnosis - Downsize - Enterprise - Excellence - Flavor of the month - Fire fighter - Game changer - Game theory - Gatekeeper - Golden handshake - Golden parachute - Governance - Headhunter - Income pressures - Individual contributor - Leadership - Learning experience - Line of sight - Low-hanging fruit - Mad as a hornet - Mastery - Matrix organization - Metrics Milestones - Momentum - Moving target - Nesting (process)|Nesting - Not invented here - Initiative - Individual contributor - Outcomes - Paradigm shift - Partnership - Positive Momentum - Practical application - Process - Process management - Product / service environment - Recommendation - Requirements - Revenue growth - Revenue mix - Rightsize - Seat at the table - Show case - Six sigma - Silo (Vertical and Horizontal) - Stakeholders - Standards - State of the art - Superior advantage/performance - Supply chain - Synergy - System - Teamwork - Thought leader - Touchpoints - Value added - Womb to tomb -

Verbs

Action - Attract - Baked In - Boil the Ocean - Call out - Capture - Champion - Circle Back - Circle the Wagons - Collaborative - Connect the dots - Deliver - Dialogue - Differentiate - Drill Down - Drink the Kool Aid - Emerge/Emerging - Enhance - Evolve - Execute - Exploit - Facilitate - Forge - Foster - Generate - Grow - Highlight - Implement - Incentivize - Ideate - Impact - Inspire - Integrate - Intervene - Leverage - Manage - Mature Onboarding - Partner - Ping - Re-engineer - Reach out - Simplify - Spearhead - Stratic - Strategic plan - Strategize - Synergize - Synergy - Table that - Tackle - Think outside the box - Throw a curve - Touch base - Transform - Tread Lightly- Unify - Utilise - Vet

Adjectives

Actionable - Authored - Customer-centric - Dynamic- Innovative - Geographically dispersed - Granular - Holistic - Nimble - Results-driven - Revolutionary - Robust - Scalable - Seamless - Superior - Sustainable - Thoughtful - User-centric - Win-win -

Adverbs

Impactfully - Synergistically -

See also

• Business speak
• Corporate jargon
• Corporate communication
• Marketing speak
• Spin (public relations)
• Corporate image
• Corporate propaganda

External links

• Buzzword Blends
• "Biz speak" Humorous collection of corporate jargon terms.
• Corporate Jargon Glossary
• CorporateJargon.net
• CorpSpeak Dictionary a corporate jargon wiki.
• Corporatepoems.com Corporate language rating.