List of buzzwords
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Below is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the business jargon of Corporate work environments.
- 110 Percent
- Absolutely
- Ajax
- B2B (Business-to-Business), B2C (Business-to-Consumers), etc.
- Benchmarking
- Backward compatible
- Best-in-class
- Best of Breed (business)
- Best practice
- Blog (and various other words that incorporate "blog", e.g., blogging, blogosphere)
- Breakthrough
- Bricks-and-clicks
- Bridge (as in "build a bridge to" something, in an abstract sense)
- Burning Platform (a visible crisis - needed to impel an organization to move)
- Business-centric
- Business layer
- Business logic
- Client/server
- Change management
- Challenge
- Champion
- Client-focused
- Communication
- Content
- Co-opetition
- Core business
- Corporate culture
- Cross-platform
- Creative destruction
- Customer-centric
- Cutting-edge
- Digitally Remastered
- Digital Signage
- Diversity
- Drill-down
- Drink your own champagne (similar to "Eat your own dog food" below)
- Due diligence
- Eat your own dog food (meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others)
- Ecosystem engineer
- Elevator statement
- Empowerment
- E-Enable
- End-to-end
- Engage
- Enterprise
- EQ
- Essential
- Excellence
- Experience
- Extensibilty
- Facade
- Feedback loop
- Fit for Purpose
- Frictionless
- Folksonomy
- Forward-looking
- Framework
- Frontier
- Gestalt
- Globalization
- Going forward
- Grow (as in "grow the business")
- Holistic
- Information sharing (used as a reason for having a meeting)
- Information superhighway / Information highway
- Integrity
- Interoperability
- Key Performance Indicator (or KPI)
- Knowledge base
- Knowledge economy
- Knowledge worker
- Leadership
- Learning curve
- Learning enterprise
- Leverage
- Lifestyle (as in "digital media lifestyle")
- Lifelong learning
- Logistics
- Low Hanging Fruit
- Metric
- Middleware
- Mission-critical
- Mission statement
- Modularity
- Mouse racing
- Multimedia
- Myself (improperly used in place of "I" or "me")
- New Generation
- Next Generation
- Offerings
- Off message
- On message
- Operationalise/Operationalize
- Outside the box
- Paradigm
- Paradigm shift
- Peace of mind
- Perspective
- Piece (as in "now back to the talking points on John's Piece")
- Plugability
- Political capital
- Podcasting
- Pornies
- Proactive
- Productize
- Proof of concept
- Quantum leap
- Rain maker (in a business or sales context)
- React
- Reengineering
- Rigor
- Robust
- Scalability
- Seamless integration
- Social software
- Solution
- Space
- Spatial Standardization
- Spearhead
- Standpoint
- State-of-the-art
- State-of-the-state
- Step-change
- Strategic Alignment
- Strategic Fit
- Strategize
- STUN protocol
- Sustainability
- Synergy
- Talking points
- Teamwork
- Thought leader
- Touch base
- Transparent functionalities
- Truthiness
- Underprice
- Value-added
- Virtual
- Vision statement
- Vortals
- Web 2.0 (sometimes "2.0" is postfixed to other words too, eg "<This Organisation> 2.0")
- Wellness
- Wikiality
- Win-win situation
- Workflow
- World Class
