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.
General conversation
- Action this/that
- Alignment[1]
- At the end of the day[1]
- Break through the clutter[2]
- Bring to the table[3]
- Buzzword[2]
- Clear goal[4]
- Disruptive innovation[5]
- Diversity[6]
- Empowerment[7][8]
- Exit strategy[7]
- Face time[7]
- Generation X[1]
- Globalization[9]
- Going forward (instead of "in the future")[10]
- Grow[11] – as in "grow the business".
- Headlights - to gain visibility into
- Holistic approach
- Impact[11] – instead of effect as a noun
- Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
- Millennial[1]
- Moving forward[12]
- New normal[13]
- On the runway[1]
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[1][11]
- Paradigm[14]
- Paradigm shift[2][15]
- Proactive[11][14]
- Push the envelope
- Reach out[16][17] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
- Sea change[2]
- Sisterhood[18]
- Spin-up[19]
- Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
- Streamline[2]
- Survival strategy[1]
- Sustainability
- Synergy[2][8][11][14]
- Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")[20]
- Wellness[21]
- Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")[22]
- Win-win[1]
Education
- Accountable talk[23]
- Higher-order thinking[24]
- Invested in[25]
- Run like a business[26]
- Student engagement[27][28][29]
- Common Core
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Differentiated instruction
- Digital Literacy
- Flipped Classroom
- Guided Reading
- Instructional Scaffolding
- Multiple Intelligences
- Project-Based Learning
- Adaptive Learning
- Brain Break
- Cooperative Learning
Business, sales and marketing
- Analytics[30]
- 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 practices[7]
- Bizmeth[31] – portmanteau of "business method".
- Brand[31]
- Brick-and-mortar[15]
- Business process outsourcing[32][33] – also known as BPO.
- Buzzword compliant[34]
- Building capabilities/Capability building[35]
- Cherry-Pick
- Circle Back
- Client-centric[7]
- Cloud computing[36]
- Close the loop[37]
- Co-opetition[38]
- Come-to-Jesus moment[39]
- Content marketing
- Core competency[40]
- Creative [41]
- Customer-centric[7](also customer-centric mindset)
- Deep dive
- Dove tail
- Downsizing[7]
- Drill down [42]
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
- Early-stage[43]
- Employer branding
- Eating your own dogfood[7][31] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
- Enable[44]
- Entitlement
- Enterprise[31]
- Event horizon[45]
- Eyeballs[15]
- -free, as in cholesterol-free seaweed or gluten-free eggs, lacking some putatively harmful substance that it never contained in the first place.
- Free value[2]
- Fulfilment issues[31]
- Generation Y
- Granular[31]
- Herding cats[7]
- Holistic (approach/integration)[46]
- Home real estate usage for an unoccupied dwelling unit
- Hyperlocal[47]
- Innovation[48]
- Innovative[41]
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[32] – also known as KPO.
- Leverage[49]
- Logistics[50] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
- Long Tail[51]
- Low Hanging Fruit[2][52]
- Make it pop[2]
- Mindshare[15]
- Mission Critical[15]
- Management Visibility[15]
- New economy[15]
- Next generation[31]
- Offshoring[45] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
- Pain point[17][53]
- Paralysis by Analysis[54]
- Part of our DNA
- Passionate[55]
- Peel back the onion
- Online tonight brains?
- Pick and Shovel Work
- Profit center
- Quick-win
- Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[31] – Processing returned products.
- Rightshoring[56]
- Seamless (integration)[57]
- Serum
- Share options[31]
- Short Runway
- Silo (for "compartmentalize")
- Social Currency
- Socialize
- Solution[1]
- SOX[58] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Sustainability[59]
- Storytelling
- Startup
- Strategy
- Synergy
- Take Offline[60]
- Talent Relationship Management
- Tee off (begin something, i.e. a meeting or program)
- Touch Base
- Touchpoint[61]
- Upselling
- Upcycling
- Value-added[1]
- Visibility[45]
- Water under the bridge [62]
- We are who we are
Science and technology
- 4G[58]
- Aggregator[63]
- Agile[64]
- Ajax[8][58]
- Algorithm[65]
- Benchmarking[66]
- Back-end[31]
- Beta[8]
- Big data - larger data sets than last month
- Bleeding edge[31]
- Blog[63] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
- Bricks-and-clicks[31][31]
- Clickthrough[31]
- Cloud[67]
- CloudOps
- Collaboration[68]
- Content management[68]
- Content Management System[63] – also known as CMS.
- Convergence[69]
- Cross-platform[31]
- Cyber-physical Systems (CSP)
- Datafication[70]
- Data mining[71] - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
- Data science[72]
- Deep dive[17]
- Deep web[73] - used interchageably with "Dark web" even though they're not the same
- Design pattern[74]
- DevOps[75]
- Digital divide[63]
- Digital Remastering[76]
- Digital Rights Management[8] – also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[77]
- Disruptive Technologies[78]
- Document management[68]
- Dot-bomb[15][31]
- ____-Driven Development[79]
- E-learning[80]
- End-to-End
- Engine[81]
- Enterprise Content Management[63] – also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[82] – also known as ESB.
- Evolution - Often use ambiguously in political or sociological arguments in reference to theories of social Darwinism. (e.x. "Society has evolved.")
- Framework[8]
- Folksonomy[63]
- Fuzzy logic[83]
- Growth Hacking
- HTML5[84]
- Immersion[85]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[8]
- Internet of Things[86]
- Innovation[87]
- Machine Learning
- Mashup[8]
- Microservices
- Mobile[88]
- Modularity[89][90]
- Nanotechnology[91]
- Netiquette[63]
- NFV- Network Function virtualization
- Next Generation[85] (also "NextGen")
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Omnichannel
- Pandering
- Parsing
- PaaS
- Podcasting[58][63]
- Portal[31]
- Real-time[63]
- Responsive Web Design[92]
- Sensorization[93]
- SaaS[58]
- Scalability[94][95]
- Skeuomorphic
- Social bookmarking[58]
- Social software[63]
- Software Defined _blank_
- SDN- Software defined Networking
- Spam[63]
- Sync-up[15]
- Systems Development Life-Cycle
- Tagging[63]
- Think outside the box[63]
- Thought Leader
- Transmedia[96]
- UC - Unified Communications
- User generated content[97]
- Viral
- Virtualization[58]
- Vlogging[63]
- Vortal[98]
- Web 2.0[8][58][63]
- Webinar[31][63]
- Weblog[63]
- Web services[68]
- Wikiality[99]
- Workflow[68][100][101]
Politics and current affairs
Other/Uncategorized
See also
References
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