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• Alignment
• At the end of the day
• Break through the clutter
• Buzzword
  Buzzword
  
  A buzzword is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker's pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and question, because the buzzword does not mean what it denomi...
   – the word itself is widely considered to be a buzzword.
• Disconnect – an error that could not have occurred intentionally
• Diversity
  Diversity
  
  Diversity may refer to:*Multiculturalism, the ideology of including people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds*Diversity , the political and social policy of encouraging tolerance for people of different backgrounds...
  
• Ecotox
• Empowerment
  Empowerment
  
  Empowerment refers to increasing the Spirituality, Politics, social or Economics strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities....
  
• Exit strategy
  Exit strategy
  
  An exit strategy is a means of escaping one's current situation, typically an unfavourable situation. An organization or individual without an exit strategy may be in a wiktionary:quagmire....
  
• Face time
• Generation X
  Generation X
  
  Generation X is a term used to identify people born after the post-World War II increase in birth rates The term has been used in demography, the social sciences, and marketing, though it is most often used in popular culture....
  
• Globalization
  Globalization
  
  Globalization in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together....
  
• Going Forward – as in "In the Future".
• Green – may qualify for a champion of buzzwords: green -energy
  Green energy
  
  Green energy is the term used to describe sources of energy that are considered to be environmentally friendly and non-pollution, such as geothermal power, wind power, and solar power and also hydroelectric...
  , -building
  Green building
  
  A sustainable building, or green building is an outcome of a design which focuses on increasing the efficiency of resource use ? energy, water, and materials ? while reducing building impacts on human health and environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and remova...
  , -party, -march, -revolution
  Green Revolution
  
  Green Revolution usually refers to the transformation of agriculture that began in 1945. One significant factor came at the request of the Mexican government to establish an agricultural research station to develop more varieties of wheat that could be used to feed the rapidly growing population of the country....
  , -politics
  Green politics
  
  Green politics is a political ideology which places a high importance on ecology and environmentalism goals, and on achieving these goals through broad-based, grassroots, participatory democracy....
  , -computing
  Green computing
  
  Green computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. The primary objective of such a program is to account for the triple bottom line, an expanded spectrum of values and criteria for measuring organizational success....
  , -technology, -vehicle
  Green vehicle
  
  A green vehicle is a vehicle that is supposedly "environmentally friendly". It provides a way of sustainable transport....
  , -highway
  Green highway
  
  A green highway integrates transportation functionality and ecological sustainability. The result is a highway that will benefit transportation, the ecosystem, urban growth, public health and surrounding communities....
  , -cleaning
  Green cleaning
  
  Green cleaning isa term that has been coined to describe a growing trend in favor of using environmentally-friendly ingredients and chemicals for household, manufacturing and industrial cleaning....
  , etc. Just a few from the Wikipedia. And, of course
• Grow – as in "grow the business".
• Hit the ground running
• Impact
  Impact
  
  In computing:* IMPACT , a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations* Impact Finite Element Program, an open source finite element program...
   – instead of effect
  Effect
  
  Effect, from Latin effectus "performance, accomplishment" can be used in various meanings:* Any result of another action or circumstance ;...
   as a noun, or affect
  Affect
  
  The term Affect generally suggests an emotion. It is used in various ways in various contexts:* Affect .* Affect , referring to feeling or emotion....
   as a verb.
• Interflop – a dead website
• Leverage
• On the runway
• Organic growth
• Outside the box
  Thinking outside the box
  
  Thinking outside the box is to think differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel, creative and smart thinking....
  
• Paradigm
  Paradigm
  
  The word paradigm has been used in linguistics and science to describe distinct concepts.To the 1960s, the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable....
  
• Paradigm shift
  Paradigm shift
  
  Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science....
  
• Proactive
  Proactive
  
  The use of the word proactive, sometimes also written pro-activewas limited to the domain of experimental psychology in the 1930s....
  
• Sea change
• Spin-up
• Streamline
• Synergy
  Synergy
  
  Synergy is the term used to describe a situation where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts....
  
• Wellness
  Wellness
  
  Wellness may mean:*Wellness -Wellness is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being....
  
• Win-win

Business, sales and marketing

• Ballpark Figure
  Approximation
  
  An approximation is an Accuracy and precision representation of something that is still close enough to be useful. Although approximation is most often applied to numbers, it is also frequently applied to such things as Function , shapes, and physical laws....
  
• Bandwidth
  Bandwidth
  
  Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of, for example, a electronic filter, a communication channel, or a signal spectrum, and is typically measured in hertz....
  
• Baste the Turkey - meaning to attend to a task that has been ignored for sometime
• Business-to-Business – also known as B2B.
• Business-to-Consumer – also known as B2C.
• Best of Breed
• Best practice
  Best practice
  
  Best practice is an idea that asserts that there is a wikt:technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, process, etc....
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• Bizmeth – shortening of "business method".
• Boil the Ocean - meaning to take on a task with an overwhelming and impossible scope
• Brand
• Brick-and-mortar
• Business Process Outsourcing
  Business process outsourcing
  
  Business process outsourcing is a form of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of a specific business functions to a third-party service provider....
   – also known as BPO.
• Buzzword compliant
  Buzzword compliant
  
  In the technology industry, being buzzword compliant means that a particular Product supports features that are currently in vogue word. Examples would include:...
  
• Client-centric
• Co-opetition
• Customer-centric
• Downsizing
• Drinking the Kool-Aid
  Kool-Aid
  
  Kool-Aid is a brand of artificially flavored drink mix owned by the Kraft Foods....
   – refers to the cyanide
  Cyanide
  
  A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains the nitrile , which consists of a carbon atom chemical bond to a nitrogen atom. Inorganic cyanides are hydrogen cyanide salts in which cyanide is generally the anion CN-....
  -laced Flavor Aid
  Flavor Aid
  
  Flavor Aid is a non-carbonated soft drink beverage made by Jel Sert in West Chicago, Illinois, introduced in 1929. It is sold throughout the United States as a unsweetened powdered concentrate drink mix, similar to Kool-Aid drink mix....
   used by Jim Jones
  Jim Jones
  
  James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana....
   cult – means trusting in things offered by authority figures
• Eat their own dog food – also known simply as "dog food", meaning to use a product yourself which you sell to others.
• Enterprise
  Enterprise
  
  Enterprise may refer to:...
  
• Event horizon
  Event horizon
  
  In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime, most often an area surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer....
  
• Eyeballs
• Free value
• Fulfilment issues
• Going forward (in the future)
• Granular
• Herding cats
• Holistic (approach/integration)
• Infrastructure
  Infrastructure
  
  Infrastructure can be defined as the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise , or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function....
  
• Knowledge Process Outsourcing
  Knowledge process outsourcing
  
  Knowledge process outsourcing is a form of outsourcing, in which knowledge-related and information-related work is carried out by workers in a different company or by a subsidiary of the same organization, which may be in the same country or in an offshore location to save cost....
   – also known as KPO.
• Logistics
  Logistics
  
  Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of consumers ....
   – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
• Logistically (i.e. "speaking logistically", "thinking logistically")
• Long Tail
  Long tail
  
  Long tail may refer to:*The Long Tail, a consumer demographic in business*Power Law's long tail, a statistics term describing certain kinds of distribution...
  
• Low Hanging Fruit
• Make it pop
• Metrics
  Metrics
  
  A metric is a standard unit of measure, such as meter or mile for length, or gram or ton for weight, or more generally, part of a system of parameters, or systems of measurement, or a set of ways of quantitatively and periodically measuring, assessing, controlling or selecting a person, process, event, or institution, along with the procedure...
  
• Mindshare
• Mission Critical
  Mission Critical
  
  The term mission critical refers to any factor which is crucial to the successful completion of an entire project. It may also refer to a project the success of which is vital to the mission of the organization which attempts it....
  
• New economy
• Next generation
  Next Generation
  
  Next Generation or Next-Generation may refer to:In technology:* AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture, AMD products* Next Generation Internet, U.S....
  
• Next level
• Offshoring
  Offshore outsourcing
  
  Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the Product or Service are actually developed or manufactured....
   – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
• Open kimono - meaning to be open and transparent in discussions
• Paperless Office
  Paperless office
  
  Historical perspectiveThe paperless office was a publicist's slogan, meant to describe the office of the future. The basic idea was that office automation would make paper redundant for routine tasks such as record-keeping and bookkeeping....
  
• Return on Investment – also known as ROI.
• Reverse fulfilment
• Rich Media
• Rightshoring
• Seamless
  Seamlessness
  
  The quality of having no visible seams, often applied idiomatically to any construct, even the most vague . Seamlessness is a system quality attribute, often applied to converging or merged technologies, that refers to the degree to which the technologies present a consistent structure and paradigm in interfaces and operations, so that the tr...
   (integration
  Enterprise application integration
  
  Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications....
  )
• Share options
• Shave the baby - Meaning to streamline as much as possible
• Siloed - Meaning completely separated with no communication between
• Solution
• SOX – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Touch Base
• Value-added
• Visibility

Science and technology

• 3G
  3G
  
  3G is the third generation of tele standards and technology for mobile networking, superseding 2.5G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union family of standards under the IMT-2000....
  
• Aggregator
  Aggregator
  
  In computing, a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client or a Web application which aggregates Web Syndication such as news headlines, blogs, Podcasting, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing....
  
• Ajax
  Ajax (programming)
  
  Ajax, or AJAX , is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications or rich Internet applications....
  
• Benchmarking
  Benchmarking
  
  Benchmarking is the process of comparing the cost, cycle time, productivity, or quality of a specific process or method to another that is widely considered to be an industry standard or best practice....
  
• Back-end
• Beta
• Bleeding edge
• Blog
  Blog
  
  A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
   – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
• Blogosphere
  Blogosphere
  
  Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network....
  
• Bricks-and-clicks
• Clickthrough
• Collaboration
• Content management
  Content management
  
  Content management, or CM, is a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information. This digital information is often referred to as Content or, to be precise, digital content....
  
• Content Management System
  Content management system
  
  A content management system is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of Content . CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures....
   – also known as CMS.
• Convergence
  Convergence
  
  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 point state....
  
• Cross-platform
• Design pattern
  Design pattern
  
  A design pattern in architecture and computer science is a formal way of documenting a solution to a design problem in a particular field of expertise....
  
• Digital divide
  Digital divide
  
  The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all....
  
• Digital Remastering
  Remaster
  
  Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began. The measure of its success depends on: 1....
  
• Digital Rights Management
  Digital rights management
  
  Digital rights management refers to access control technologies used by publishers, copyright holders, and hardware manufacturers to limit usage of digital media or devices....
   – also known as DRM.
• Digital signage
  Digital signage
  
  Digital signage is a form of electronic display that is installed in public spaces. Digital signs are typically used to entertain, inform or advertise ....
  
• Document management
• Dot-bomb
• Download
• E-learning
• Enterprise Content Management
  Enterprise content management
  
  Enterprise content management is the strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes....
   – also known as ECM.
• Enterprise Service Bus – also known as ESB.
• Framework
  Framework
  
  A framework is a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues. This very broad definition has allowed the term to be used as a buzzword, especially in a software context....
  
• Folksonomy
  Folksonomy
  
  Folksonomy is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing Tag to annotate and categorization Content . Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging....
  
• Fuzzy logic
  Fuzzy logic
  
  Fuzzy logic is a form of multi-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is approximate rather than precise. In binary sets with binary logic, in contrast to fuzzy logic named also crisp logic, the variables may have a Membership function of only 0 or 1....
  
• Immersion
  Immersion (virtual reality)
  
  Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment; often artificial....
  
• Information superhighway
  Information superhighway
  
  The information superhighway was a popular term used through the 1990s to refer to digital communication systems. It is associated with United States Senator and later Vice-President Al Gore....
   / Information highway
• Innovation
  Innovation
  
  The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations....
   
• Mashup
  Mashup (web application hybrid)
  
  In web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data from one or more sources into a single integrated tool. The term Mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data....
  
• Mobile
  Mobile phone
  
  A mobile phone is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites....
  
• Modularity
  Modularity
  
  Modularity is a general systems concept, typically defined as a continuum describing the degree to which a system?s components may be separated and recombined....
  
• Nanotechnology
  Nanotechnology
  
  Nanotechnology, shortened to "Nanotech", is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size....
  
• Netiquette
  Netiquette
  
  Netiquette, a Portmanteau word of "computer network etiquette", is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and Internet forum....
  
• Next Generation
  Next Generation
  
  Next Generation or Next-Generation may refer to:In technology:* AMD Next Generation Microarchitecture, AMD products* Next Generation Internet, U.S....
   (also "NextGen")
• Podcasting
  Podcasting
  
  File:Podcasting icon.jpgA podcast is like a radio program except people can download a podcast to a portable media player and listen to it at their convenience....
  
• Portal
• Real-time
• SaaS
• Scalability
  Scalability
  
  In telecommunications and software engineering, scalability is a desirable property of a system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or to be readily enlarged....
  
• Social bookmarking
• Social software
  Social software
  
  Social software encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with social sites like MySpace and Facebook, media sites like Flickr and YouTube, and commercial sites like Amazon.com and eBay....
  
• Spam
  Spam (electronic)
  
  Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: Messaging spam, Newsgroup spam, spamdexing, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Classified advertising spam, mobile phone spam, Forum...
  
• Struts
• Sync-up
• Tagging
• Think outside the box
• User generated content
• Virtualization
• Vlogging
• Vortal
  Web portal
  
  A web portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the search engine standard, web portals offer other services such as e-mail, news, stock prices, infotainment, and other features....
  
• Web 2.0
  Web 2.0
  
  The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and web design, that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web....
  
• Webinar
• Weblog
• Web services
• Wikiality
  Wikipedia in popular culture
  
  References to Wikipedia in culture have increased as more people learn about and use the Internet encyclopedia project. Many parody Wikipedia openness, with characters vandalising or modifying articles....
  
• Workflow
  Workflow
  
  A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, work of a simple or complex mechanism, work of a group of persons, work of an organization of staff, or machines....
  
• VaporWare
  Vaporware
  
  Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product....
  

Politics and current affairs

• Information society
  Information society
  
  An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity....
  
• Political capital
  Political capital
  
  Political capital is primarily based on a public figure's favorable image among the populace and among other important actors in or out of the government....
  
• Stakeholder
• Truthiness
  Truthiness
  
  Truthiness is a Term first used in its current satire sense by United States television comedian Stephen Colbert in 2005, to describe things that a person claims to know intuition or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts....
  
• Elitist
• Pork-barrel spending
• Shore Up

Other/Uncategorized

• Best-in-class
• Tiptronic
  Tiptronic
  
  Tiptronic, is a type of discrete automatic transmission developed by Porsche, and used in its vehicles, and those of its licensees....
  

See also

• Buzzword bingo
  Buzzword bingo
  
  Buzzword bingo is a Bingo -style game where participants prepare bingo cards with buzzwords and tick them off when they are uttered during an event, such as a meeting or speech....
  
• Cant (language)
  Cant (language)
  
  Cant is an example of an argot or cryptolect, a characteristic or secret language used only by members of a group, often used to conceal the meaning from those outside the group....
  
• Shibboleth
  Shibboleth
  
  Shibboleth is any distinguishing practice which is indicative of one's social or regional origin.It usually refers to features of language, and particularly to a word whose pronunciation identifies its speaker as being a member or not a member of a particular group....
  

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