Below is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ...

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.
• Disconnect^[3]
• Empowerment^[4][5]
• Exit strategy^[4]
• Face time^[4]
• Generation X ^[1]
• Globalization^[6]
• Grow^[3] - as in "grow the business".
• Impact^[3] - instead of effect as a noun, or affect as a verb.
• Interflop^[4]- A Dead website
• Leverage^[7][2]
• On the runway ^[1]
• Organic growth^[2]
• Outside the box^{[3] [1]}
• Paradigm^[8]
• Paradigm shift^[9][2]
• Proactive^[8][3]
• Sea change^[2]
• Spin-up^[10]
• Streamline^[2]
• Synergy^[5][8][3][2]
• Wellness^[11]
• Win-win ^[1]

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Empowerment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An exit strategy is a means of escaping a very difficult situation. ... Generation X is a term used to describe generations in many countries around the world. ... IMPACT [1] The mission of IMPACT is to inform and connect emerging leaders through economic empowerment, civic engagement, and political involvement. ... Effect can be used in several different ways: Cause and effect are the relata of causality In movies and other media, sound effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds. ... Look up affect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Leverage is related to torque; leverage is a factor by which lever multiplies a force. ... A literal interpretation of the phrase Think outside the box. “Outside the box” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Paradigm (disambiguation). ... Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary using the Transwiki process. ... Synergy (from the Greek synergos, συνεργός meaning working together, circa 1660) refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents. ... Wellness may mean: Wellness (alternative medicine) - Here, wellness is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being. ...

Business, Sales and Marketing

• Ballpark Figure^[4]
• Business-to-Business^[4] - also known as B2B.
• Business-to-Consumer^[4] - also known as B2C.
• Best of Breed^[4]
• Best practices^[4]
• Bizmeth^[12] - shortening of "business method".
• Brand^[12]
• Brick-and-mortar^[9]
• Business Process Outsourcing^[13][14] - also known as BPO.
• Buzzword compliant^[15]
• Client-centric^[4]
• Co-opetition^[16]
• Customer-centric^[4]
• Downsizing^[4]
• Drinking the Kool-Aid^[4] - refers to the cyanide-laced Flavor Aid used by Jim Jones cult. Used as a metaphor for how some dot-com employees were treated.
• Eat their own dog food^[4][12] - also known simply as "dog food", meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others.
• Enterprise^[12]
• Event horizon^[17]
• Eyeballs^[9]
• Free value^[2]
• Fulfilment issues^[12]
• Granular^[12]
• Herding cats^[4]
• Knowledge Process Outsourcing^[13] - also known as KPO.
• Logistics^[18] - Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
• Long Tail^[19]
• Low Hanging Fruit^[20][2]
• Make it pop^[2]
• Mindshare^[9]
• New economy^[9]
• Next generation^[12]
• Offshoring^[17] - also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
• Return on Investment^[2] - also known as ROI.
• Reverse fulfilment^[12]
• Rightshoring^[21]
• Share options^[12]
• Solution ^[1]
• SOX^[22] - abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Value-added ^[1]
• Visibility^[17]

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with estimation. ... Business-to-business (B2B) describes relations of commercial partners, without serving the end consumer. ... Business-to-consumer (B2C), also Business-to-customer, describes activities of commercial organizations serving the end consumer with products and/or services. ... Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc. ... Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the leveraging of technology or specialist process vendors to provide and manage an organisations critical and/or non-critical enterprise processes and applications. ... In the technology industry, being buzzword compliant means that a particular product supports features that are currently in vogue. ... Co-opetition is a buzzword coined to describe cooperative competition. ... Downsizing is a euphemism referring to layoffs initiated by a company in order to cut labor costs by reducing the size of the company. ... Categories: Food and drink stubs | Kraft brands | Beverages ... The cyanide ion, CN−. From the top: 1. ... Flavor Aid is a soft drink beverage made by Jel Sert, introduced in 1929. ... This article is about the cult leader. ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ... Look up Enterprise in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the science fiction film, see Event Horizon (film). ... The phrase herding cats comes from the common saying that something involving coordination of many different groups or people is as difficult as herding cats. ... Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) is a form of outsourcing. ... Look up Logistics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in a 2004 Wired Magazine article [1] to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon. ... Star Trek: The Next Generation is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... In finance, the return on investment (ROI) or just return is a calculation used to determine whether a proposed investment is wise, and how well it will repay the investor. ... Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, President George W. Bush meets with Senator Paul Sarbanes, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room at the White House July 30, 2002. ...

Science and Technology

• 3G^[22]
• Aggregator^[23]
• Ajax^[5][22]
• Bandwidth ^[1]
• Benchmarking^[24]
• Back-end^[12]
• Beta^[5]
• Bleeding edge^[12]
• Blog^[23] - plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
• Bricks-and-clicks^[12][25]
• Clickthrough^[12]
• Client/server^[26]
• Collaboration^[27]
• Content management^[27]
• Content Management System^[23] - also known as CMS.
• Convergence^[14]
• Cross-platform^[12]
• Design pattern^[28]
• Digital divide^[23]
• Remastering^[29] - including digitally remastering.
• Digital Rights Management^[5] - also known as DRM.
• Digital signage^[30]
• Document management^[27]
• Dot-bomb^[9][12]
• Download ^[1]
• E-learning^[31]
• Enterprise Content Management^[23] - also known as ECM.
• Enterprise Service Bus^[32] - also known as ESB.
• Framework^[5]
• Folksonomy^[23]
• Fuzzy logic^[14]
• Immersion^[33]
• Information superhighway / Information highway^[5]
• Mobile^[34]
• Modularity^[14][35]
• Nanotechnology^[36]
• Netiquette^[23]
• Next Generation^[33]
• Podcasting^[22][23]
• Portal^[12]
• Real-time^[23]
• SaaS^[22]
• Scalability^[37][38]
• Social bookmarking^[22]
• Social software^[23]
• Spam^[23]
• Struts^[39]
• Sync-up^[9]
• Tagging^[23]
• User generated content^[40]
• Virtualization^[22]
• Vlogging^[23]
• Vortal^[41]
• Web 2.0^[5][22][23]
• Webinar^[23][12]
• Weblog^[23]
• Web services^[27]
• Wikiality^[42]
• Workflow^[14][43][27]

3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, after 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, IMT-2000. 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving... In computing, a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader or simply as an aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing. ... “AJAX” redirects here. ... Benchmarking (also best practice benchmarking or process benchmarking) is a process used in management and particularly strategic management, in which organizations evaluate various aspects of their processes in relation to best practice, usually within their own sector. ... In software engineering, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Client/Server is a network application architecture which separates the client (usually the graphical user interface) from the server. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content management. ... In the absence of a more specific context, convergence denotes the approach toward a definite value, as time goes on; or to a definite point, a common view or opinion, or toward a fixed or equilibrium state. ... Design pattern could mean several things. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and other copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. ... Digital Signage in the Warner Village Cinemas in Taipei Digital signage is a form of out-of-home advertising in which content and messages displayed on an electronic screen, or digital sign, can be changed without modification to the physical sign, typically with the goal of delivering targeted messages to... Originally, a document management system was a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store images of paper documents. ... Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is any of the strategies and technologies employed in the information technology industry for managing the capture, storage, security, revision control, retrieval, distribution, preservation and destruction of documents and content. ... Look up Framework in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A folksonomy is a user-generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve web content such as Web pages, photographs and Web links, using open-ended labels called tags. ... Fuzzy logic is derived from fuzzy set theory dealing with reasoning that is approximate rather than precisely deduced from classical predicate logic. ... Immersion is the state where you cease to be aware of your physical self. ... The information highway is a term used, especially in the 1990s to describe the Internet. ... The adolescent Internet. ... “Cell Phone” redirects here. ... Modularity is a concept that has applications in the contexts of computer science, particularly programming, as well as cognitive science in investigating the structure of mind. ... Buckminsterfullerene C60, also known as the buckyball, is the simplest of the carbon structures known as fullerenes. ... Netiquette (portmanteau of network etiquette) is the convention on electronic forums ( Usenet, mailing lists, live chat, and Internet message boards) to facilitate efficient interaction. ... Star Trek: The Next Generation is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry. ... Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Scale (computing). ... It has been suggested that History of social software be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about electronic spam. ... Jakarta Struts is an open-source framework for developing J2EE web applications. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For information regarding portals on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Portal. ... The phrase Web 2. ... A Webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... A web service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications. ... A workflow is a reliably repeatable pattern of activity enabled by a systematic organization of resources, defined roles and mass, energy and information flows, into a work process that can be documented and learned. ...

Politics and Current Affairs

• Information society^[44]
• Political capital^[45]
• Stakeholder^[46]
• Truthiness^[42]

For other uses, see Information society (disambiguation). ... This article concerns places that serve as centers of government and politics. ... Stephen Colbert announces that The WØRD of the night is truthiness, during the premiere episode of The Colbert Report. ...

Other/Uncategorized

• Best-in-class^[47]
• Tiptronic^[5]

Tiptronic is a type of discrete automatic transmission developed by Porsche and used in its vehicles and those of its licensees. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Buzzwords Gone Bad, Marketing Today
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Columbus Alive: Buzz Kill
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Maine Today - Business: Business buzzword hall of fame
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o}
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Buzzword Hell
6. ^ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
7. ^ Urban Dictionary: Leverage
8. ^ ^{a b c} "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN-13: 978-0375753480
9. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords
10. ^ BuzzWhack, The Buzzword-Compliant Dictionary: S
11. ^ American School Board Journal: Case Studies
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13. ^ ^{a b} India Daily: The coming wave of Knowledge Process Outsourcing
14. ^ ^{a b c d e} Multichannel Merchant: BPO Adaptability: Boardroom Buzzword or Competitive Advantage?
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16. ^ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
17. ^ ^{a b c} The WordSpy: Business buzzwords category
18. ^ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes Magazine
19. ^ The Register: The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble
20. ^ WordSpy: Low-hanging fruit
21. ^ Global Business Watch: Rightshoring: The Latest Outsourcing Buzzword
22. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Buzzword Alert: Top 20 IT Buzzwords of 2006
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24. ^ AllBusiness: Benchmarking 101
25. ^ Evolt.org: Buzzword Bingo
26. ^ PennPrintOut - The University of Pennsylvania's Online Computing Magazine: Client/Server Computing
27. ^ ^{a b c d e} IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
28. ^ Thirteenth Parallel: Coding For Portability, Part 2
29. ^ Scenta Music Features: Remixing, remastering, rejuvenating
30. ^ Digital Content Producer.com: Picture This: Digital Signage
31. ^ InsideKnowledge Magazine: The winning formula: A blended approach to cross-platform content
32. ^ [http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci913058,00.html Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?]
33. ^ ^{a b} N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
34. ^ http://www.blonnet.com/life/2003/03/10/stories/2003031000090200.htm
35. ^ The Register: Sun takes Storagetek modular
36. ^ Piscataquis County Economic Development Council: UMaine opens state-of-the-art lab
37. ^ [http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/799 Zend Developer Zone: An Interview With George Schlossnagle
38. ^ OE Magazine: The Sporty New JPEG Model
39. ^ OnJava: What Is Struts
40. ^ Personal Democracy Forum
41. ^ BusinessWeek Online: Vortal Combat: The Early Years
42. ^ ^{a b} Global Language Monitor
43. ^ Medical Strategic Planning: EHR Terminology
44. ^ Facet Publishing: Challenge and Change in the Information Society
45. ^ Slate: What is "political capital", anyway?
46. ^ BBC News: Hard hat time for rail champion
47. ^ BuzzWhack: 10 phrases

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External Links

• Investopedia's List of Buzz Words
• Global Language Monitor's Lists of Political, High Tech, Youthful Jargon
• Rhymer.net's Directory of Business Jargon and Buzzwords