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This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments.

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General conversation

Alignment^[1]
At the end of the day^[1]
Break through the clutter^[2]
Buzzword^[2] – the word itself is widely considered to be a buzzword.
Contingency planning - overly used on MBTI related sites about NT types.
Disconnect – an error that could not have occurred intentionally^[3]
Diversity^[4]
Ecotox [5]
Empowerment^[5]^[6]
Exit strategy^[5]
Face time^[5]
Generation X^[1]
Globalization^[7]
Process – to make sense of. also, "talking it out".
Green
Grow^[3] – as in "grow the business".
Hit the ground running
Impact^[3] – instead of effect as a noun, or affect as a verb.
Interflop^[5] – a dead website

Leverage^[2]
On the runway^[1]
Organic growth^[2]
Outside the box^[1]^[3]
Paradigm^[8]
Paradigm shift^[2]^[9]
Proactive^[3]^[8]
Sea change (transformation)^[2]
Spin-up^[10]
Streamline^[2]
Synergy^[2]^[3]^[6]^[8]
Wellness^[11]
Win-win^[1]
Box of hamsters - a workplace or situation lacking vision

Business, sales and marketing

Analytics^[12]
Ballpark Figure^[5]
Bandwidth^[1]
Baste the Turkey - meaning to attend to a task that has been ignored for sometime
Business-to-Business^[5] – also known as B2B.
Business-to-Consumer^[5] – also known as B2C.
Best of Breed^[5]
Best practices^[5]
Bizmeth^[13] – shortening of "business method".
Boil the Ocean - meaning to take on a task with an overwhelming and impossible scope
Boilerplate
Brand^[13]
Brick-and-mortar^[9]
Business Process Outsourcing^[14]^[15] – also known as BPO.
Buzzword compliant^[16]
Client-centric^[5]
Circle back
Co-opetition^[17]
Core competency^[18]
Customer-centric^[5]
Downsizing^[5]
Drinking the Kool-Aid^[5] – refers to the cyanide-laced Flavor Aid used by Jim Jones cult – means trusting in things offered by authority figures
Eat their own dog food^[5]^[13] – also known simply as "dog food", meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others.
Enterprise^[13]^{[disambiguation needed]}
Event horizon^[19]
Eyeballs^[9]
Free value^[2]
Fulfilment issues^[13]
Going forward (in the future)
Granular^[13]
Herding cats^[5]
Holistic (approach/integration) ^[20]
Information Logistics
Infrastructure

Integrated
Knowledge Process Outsourcing^[14] – also known as KPO.
Logistics^[21] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
Logistically (i.e. "speaking logistically", "thinking logistically")
Long Tail^[22]
Low Hanging Fruit^[2]^[23]
Make it pop^[2]
Metrics
Mindshare^[9]
Mission Critical^[9]
Management Visibility^[9]
New economy^[9]
Next generation^[13]
Next level
Offline - to continue a conversation privately
Offshoring^[19] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
Open kimono - meaning to be open and transparent in discussions
Paperless Office
Return on Investment^[2] – also known as ROI.
Reverse fulfilment^[13]
Rich Media
Rightshoring^[24]
Seamless (integration) ^[25]
Secret Sauce
Share options^[13]
Siloed - Meaning completely separated with no communication between
Solution^[1]
SOX^[26] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
State-of-the-Art
Sustainability ^[27]
Tail Risk
Touch Base
Tic-tac
Umbrella Wawi
Value-added^[1]
Visibility^[19]

Science and technology

3G^[26]
Aggregator^[28]
Ajax^[6]^[26]
Benchmarking^[29]
Back-end^[13]
Beta^[6]
Bleeding edge^[13]
Blog^[28] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
Blogosphere
Bricks-and-clicks^[13]^[30]
Clickthrough^[13]
Cloud^[31]
Collaboration^[32]
Content management^[32]
Content Management System^[28] – also known as CMS.
Convergence^[33]
Cross-platform^[13]
Design pattern^[34]
Digital divide^[28]
Digital Remastering^[35]
Digital Rights Management^[6] – also known as DRM.
Digital signage^[36]
Document management^[32]
Dot-bomb^[9]^[13]
Download^[1]
E-learning^[37]
Enterprise Content Management^[28] – also known as ECM.
Enterprise Service Bus^[38] – also known as ESB.
Framework^[6]
Folksonomy^[28]

Politics and current affairs

American / Un-American
Elitist
Pork-barrel spending
Shore Up
Rule of Law
Change
Conservative
Progressive
Freedom

Other/Uncategorized

Best-in-class^[60]

Tiptronic^[6]

See also

References

^ ^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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Business buzzword hall of fame". Blethen Maine Newspapers. September 2002. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
^ 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 ^o 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 "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN 978-0375753480
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords
^ BuzzWhack, The Buzzword-Compliant Dictionary: S
^ American School Board Journal: Case Studies
^ '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
^ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
^ [1][2]
^ ^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
^ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes Magazine
^ The Register: The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble
^ WordSpy: Low-hanging fruit
^ 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
^ ^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
^ 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
^ Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?
^ FAQs.org: Introduction to Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control
^ ^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
^ 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
^ Communication Arts Magazine: Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works
^ Medical Strategic Planning: EHR Terminology
^ Facet Publishing: Challenge and Change in the Information Society
^ Slate: What is "political capital", anyway?
^ [3]
^ [4]
^ BBC News: Hard hat time for rail champion
^ BuzzWhack: 10 phrases

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