Corporate jargon

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Corporate jargon lists jargon often used in business communication of corporations.

Contents

1 Acronyms
2 Nouns
3 Verbs
4 Adjectives

Acronyms

ASAP: as soon as possible
BU: business unit
EOD: end of day
CAO: Chief accounting officer
CEO: Chief executive officer
CFO: Chief financial officer
COO: Chief operating officer
CTO: Chief technical officer
FY: fiscal year
FYI: for your information
HR: human resources
OBE: overtaken by events; obsolete
OOO: out of office
TBH: to be hired
TCO: total cost of ownership
ROI: return on investment

Nouns

Assessment - Benchmark - Best practices - Bottle neck - Buckets - Change - Coach - Competitive advantage - Conflict resolution - Constraints - Core competencies - Core values - Cracker jack - Critical thinker - Cutting edge practices - Dashboard - Deliverables - Diagnosis - Downsize - Enterprise - Excellence - Flavor of the month - Fire fighter - Game theory - Gatekeeper - Geographically dispersed - Golden handshake - Headhunter - Individual contributor - Leadership - Learning experience - Line of sight - Mad as a hornet - Mastery - Matrix organization - Metrics Milestones - Moving target - Nesting - Not invented here - Individual contributor - Outcomes - Partnership - Practical application - Process - Process management - Product / service environment - Recommendation - Re-engineer - Requirements - Rightsize - Seat at the table - Show case - Six sigma - Standards - State of the art - Superior advantage / performance - Supply chain - System - Teamwork - Thought leader - Value added - Womb to tomb

Verbs

Attract - Champion - Deliver - Facilitate - Forge - Generate - Inspire - Integrate - Intervene - Leverage - Manage - Partner - Reach out - Spearhead - Strategize - Synergize - Throw a curve - Transform - Unify

Adjectives

Authored - Nimble - Robust - Superior - Sustainable

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