Corporate jargon lists jargon

Jargon

Jargon is terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, profession, group, or event. The philosophe Condillac observed in 1782 that "Every science requires a special language because every science has its own ideas." As a rationalist member of the Enlightenment he...

 often used in business communication of corporation

Corporation

A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...

s. A slang type or form is called "corporatese." Corporate jargon is not confined to business and can also be found in education and government departments.

Initialisms

• 24/7 & 7/52
• AFS - Available for Sale
• AOB - Any Other Business
• AOP - Annual Operating Plan
• ASAP - as soon as possible
• BAU - Business As Usual
• BR/KR - Best Regards/Kind Regards
• BU - business unit
• BTW - by the way
• CAO - Chief Accounting Officer  Also, Chief Administrative Officer or Chief Academic Officer
• CEO - Chief Executive Officer
  Chief executive officer
  A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
  
  
• CPO - Chief People Officer also Chief Procurement Officer
  Chief procurement officer
  A Chief Procurement Officer is an executive role focused on sourcing, procurement, and supply management for an enterprise.Globalization, compliance pressures, supply market risk and procurement automation have simultaneously elevated the visibility of the procurement discipline within companies...
  
  
• CCO - Chief Compliance Officer
• CCG - Corporate Consultancy Group
• CFO - Chief Financial Officer
  Chief financial officer
  The chief financial officer or Chief financial and operating officer is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. This officer is also responsible for financial planning and record-keeping, as well as financial reporting to higher management...
  
  
• CIO - Chief Information Officer
  Chief information officer
  Chief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...
  
   also Chief Investment Officer
  Chief investment officer
  The chief investment officer is a job title for the board level head of investments within an organization. The CIO's purpose is to understand, manage, and monitor their organization's portfolio of assets, devise strategies for growth, act as the liaison with investors, and recognize and avoid...
  
  
• CISO - Chief Information Security Officer
  Chief information security officer
  A chief information security officer is the senior-level executive within an organization responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy and program to ensure information assets are adequately protected...
  
  
• CMO - Chief Marketing Officer
  Chief marketing officer
  Chief Marketing Officer is a corporate title referring to an executive responsible for various marketing activities in an organization...
  
  
• COB - Close Of Business
• COO - Chief Operating Officer
  Chief operating officer
  A Chief Operating Officer or Director of Operations can be one of the highest-ranking executives in an organization and comprises part of the "C-Suite"...
  
  
• COP - Close of Play
• CSA - Customer Service Advisor
  Customer Service Advisor
  A customer service advisor, or CSA, is a generic job title in the service industry. It covers a variety of customer facing occupations, primarily in call centres and stores....
  
  
• CTO - Chief Technical Officer
  Chief technical officer
  A chief technology officer is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization....
  
  
• DBA - doing business as
• EDD - Estimated Delivery Date
• ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
• EOB - A bastardisation of EOD and COB. Not in common use.
• EOD - end of day
• EOM - end of message
• EOY - end of year
• ER - Earnings Release
• FBS - Functional Business Unit
• FOC - Free of Charge
• FY - fiscal year
• FTE - full time equivalent
• FYI - for your information
• FYIA - for your information and necessary action / for your immediate action
• F2F - Face to Face
• HIBBIS - Heads in Beds, Butts in Seats (Used in the hotel industry)
• HR - human resources
• IRO - In respect of
• JD - Job Description
• KPI - Key performance indicators
  Key performance indicators
  A performance indicator or key performance indicator is an industry jargon for a type of performance measurement.. KPIs are commonly used by an organization to evaluate its success or the success of a particular activity in which it is engaged...
  
  
• LEA - Local Education Authority
  Local Education Authority
  A local education authority is a local authority in England and Wales that has responsibility for education within its jurisdiction...
  
  
• MNC: multinational company
• MOU - memorandum of understanding
  Memorandum of understanding
  A memorandum of understanding is a document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action. It is often used in cases where parties either do not imply a legal commitment or in...
  
  
• MOM - minutes of meeting
• NDA - Non-disclosure agreement
  Non-disclosure agreement
  A non-disclosure agreement , also known as a confidentiality agreement , confidential disclosure agreement , proprietary information agreement , or secrecy agreement, is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties...
  
  
• OBE - overtaken by events* obsolete
• OD - organisational development
• OOO / OOTO - out of (the) office
• PFA - please find attached
• PFB - please find below
• POC - point of contact, proof of concept
  Proof of concept
  A proof of concept or a proof of principle is a realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle, whose purpose is to verify that some concept or theory that has the potential of being used...
  
  
• POS - point of sale
  Point of sale
  Point of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
  
  
• PP - payback period
  Payback period
  Payback period in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment. For example, a $1000 investment which returned $500 per year would have a two year payback period. The time value of money is not taken into account...
  
  
• P.S. - Postscript
  Postscript
  A postscript, abbreviated P.S., is writing added after the main body of a letter . The term comes from the Latin post scriptum, an expression meaning "written after" .A postscript may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and...
  
   text after the main body of an email
• PTO - Paid Time Off
• QPR - Quarterly Performance Report
• QQ - Quick Question
• R&D - Research and Development
  Research and development
  The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
  
  
• RFP - Request for Proposal
  Request for Proposal
  A request for proposal is issued at an early stage in a procurement process, where an invitation is presented for suppliers, often through a bidding process, to submit a proposal on a specific commodity or service. The RFP process brings structure to the procurement decision and is meant to...
  
  
• RIF - Reduction in Force
• ROI - return on investment
  Return on investment
  Return on investment is one way of considering profits in relation to capital invested. Return on assets , return on net assets , return on capital and return on invested capital are similar measures with variations on how “investment” is defined.Marketing not only influences net profits but also...
  
  
• RTM - release to manufacturing
• SBU - Strategic Business Unit
  Strategic business unit
  In essence, the SBU is a profit making area that focuses on a combination of product offer and market segment, requiring its own marketing plan, competitor analysis, and marketing campaign.A Strategic Business Unit emerges at the cross-over between:...
  
  
• SME - Subject Matter Expert
  Subject Matter Expert
  A subject matter expert or domain expert is a person who is an expert in a particular area or topic. When spoken, sometimes the acronym "SME" is spelled out and other times voiced as a word ....
  
  
• SOB - start of business
• SOD - start of day
• SOW - Statement of work
• SVP - senior Vice president
  Vice president
  A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...
  
  
• TAT - Turn Around Time
• TBA - to be announced
• TBD - to be determined
• TBC - to be confirmed
• TBH - to be hired
• TCO - total cost of ownership
  Total cost of ownership
  Total cost of ownership is a financial estimate whose purpose is to help consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system...
  
  
• USP - Unique Selling Proposition
  Unique selling proposition
  The Unique Selling Proposition is a marketing concept that was first proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns of the early 1940s. It states that such campaigns made unique propositions to the customer and that this convinced them to switch brands...
  
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• VP - Vice president
  Vice president
  A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...
  
  
• WC - Week Commencing
• WE - Week Ending
• WRT - With respect to

Nouns

Assessment -
Bandwidth -
Benchmarking/Benchmark -
Best practice -
Best practice methodology -
Bottle neck -
Change -
Coach/Couch the idea -
Compensation actions -
Competitive advantage -
Conflict resolution -
Constraints -
Core competencies -
Core values -
Cracker jack -
Critical thinker -
Cutting edge practices -
Dashboards (management information systems)|Dashboard -
Deliverable/s -
Diagnosis -
Downsize -
Enterprise -
Excellence -
Flavor of the month -
Fire fighter -
Game changer -
Game theory -
Gatekeeper -
Golden handshake -
Golden parachute -
Governance -
Headhunter -
Income pressures -
Individual contributor -
Leadership -
Learning experience -
Line of sight -
Low-hanging fruit -
Mad as a hornet -
Mastery -
Matrix organization -
Metrics Milestones -
Momentum -
Moving target -
Nesting (process)|Nesting -
Not invented here -
Initiative -
Individual contributor -
Outcomes -
Paradigm shift -
Partnership -
Positive Momentum -
Practical application -
Process -
Process management -
Product / service environment -
Recommendation -
Requirements -
Revenue growth -
Revenue mix -
Rightsize -
Seat at the table -
Show case -
Six sigma -
Silo (Vertical and Horizontal) -
Stakeholders -
Standards -
State of the art -
Superior advantage/performance -
Supply chain -
Synergy -
System -
Teamwork -
Thought leader -
Touchpoints -
Value added -
Womb to tomb -

Verbs

Action -
Attract -
Baked In -
Boil the Ocean -
Call out -
Capture -
Champion -
Circle Back -
Circle the Wagons -
Collaborative -
Connect the dots -
Deliver -
Dialogue -
Differentiate -
Drill Down -
Drink the Kool Aid -
Emerge/Emerging -
Enhance -
Evolve -
Execute -
Exploit -
Facilitate -
Forge -
Foster -
Generate -
Grow -
Highlight -
Implement -
Incentivize -
Ideate -
Impact -
Inspire -
Integrate -
Intervene -
Leverage -
Manage -
Mature
Onboarding -
Partner -
Ping -
Re-engineer -
Reach out -
Simplify -
Spearhead -
Stratic -
Strategic plan -
Strategize -
Synergize -
Synergy -
Table that -
Tackle -
Think outside the box -
Throw a curve -
Touch base -
Transform -
Unify -
Utilise -
Vet

Adjectives

Actionable -
Authored -
Customer-centric -
Dynamic-
Innovative -
Geographically dispersed -
Granular -
Holistic -
Nimble -
Results-driven -
Revolutionary -
Robust -
Scalable -
Seamless -
Superior -
Sustainable -
Thoughtful -
User-centric -
Win-win -

See also

• Business speak
  Business speak
  Business speak, also management speak refers to a particular syntax often used in large organizations. The tone is associated with managers of large corporations, business management consultants, and occasionally government. The term is typically derogatory, implying the use of long, complicated,...
  
  
• Corporate jargon
  Corporate jargon
  Corporate jargon lists jargon often used in business communication of corporations. A slang type or form is called "corporatese." Corporate jargon is not confined to business and can also be found in education and government departments.- Initialisms :...
  
  
• Corporate communication
• Marketing speak
• Spin (public relations)
  Spin (public relations)
  In public relations, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing an interpretation of an event or campaign to persuade public opinion in favor or against a certain organization or public figure...
  
  
• Corporate image
  Corporate image
  A corporate image refers to how a corporation is perceived. It is a generally accepted image of what a company stands for. Marketing experts who use public relations and other forms of promotion to suggest a mental picture to the public...
  
  
• Corporate propaganda
  Corporate propaganda
  Corporate propaganda are propagandist claims made by a corporation , nearly always for the purpose of manipulating market opinion to the benefit of their product or to divide public opinion with regard to controversial issues related to that corporation, and its associated business dealings....
  
  

External links

• Buzzword Blends
• "Biz speak" Humorous collection of corporate jargon terms.
• Corporate Jargon Glossary
• CorporateJargon.net
• CorpSpeak Dictionary a corporate jargon wiki.
• Corporatepoems.com Corporate language rating.