List of 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.
Contents
1 Acronyms 2 Nouns 3 Verbs 4 Adjectives 5 See also 6 External links
Acronyms
AFS - Available for Sale AOB - Any Other Business AOP - Annual Operating Plan ASAP - as soon as possible BU - business unit BAU - Business As Usual CAO - Chief Accounting Officer Also, Chief Administrative Officer or Chief Academic Officer CEO - Chief Executive Officer CPO - Chief People Officer CCO - Chief Compliance Officer CFO - Chief Financial Officer CIO - Chief Information Officer also Chief Investment Officer CISO - Chief Information Security Officer CMO - Chief Marketing Officer COB - Close Of Business COO - Chief Operating Officer CSA - Customer Service Advisor CTO - Chief Technical Officer 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 ER - Earnings Release FBS - Functional Business Unit 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 HR - human resources KPI - Key performance indicators LEA - Local Education Authority MNC: multinational company MOU - memorandum of understanding MOM - minutes of meeting NDA - Non-disclosure agreement OBE - overtaken by events* obsolete OD - organisational development OOO / OOTO - out of (the) office POC - point of contact, proof of concept POS - point of sale PP - payback period PTO - Paid Time Off QPR - Quarterly Performance Report R&D - Research and Development RFP - Request for Proposal ROI - return on investment RTM - release to manufacturing SBU - Strategic Business Unit SME - Subject Matter Expert SOB - start of business SOD - start of day SOW - Statement of work SVP - senior Vice president TBD - to be delivered TBC - to be confirmed TBH - to be hired TCO - total cost of ownership USP - Unique Selling Proposition/Point VP - Vice president WC - Week Commencing WE - Week Ending
Nouns
Actionable - Assessment - Bandwidth - Benchmarking/Benchmark - Best practices - 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 - Geographically dispersed - Golden handshake - Golden parachute - 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 Partnership - Positive Momentum - Practical application - Process - Process management Product / service environment - Recommendation - Re-engineer - Requirements - Revenue
growth - Revenue mix - Rightsize - Seat at the table - Show case - Six sigma - Silo (Vertical and Horizontal) - 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 Inspire - Integrate - Intervene - Leverage - Manage - Mature Onboarding - Partner - Reach out - Simplify - Spearhead - Stratic - Strategic plan - Strategize - Synergize - Synergy - Table that - Think outside the box - Throw a curve - Touch base - Transform - Unify - Utilise
Adjectives
Actionable - Authored - Customer-centric - Dynamic- Innovative - Granular - Nimble Robust - Revolutionary - Scalable - Seamless - Superior - Sustainable - Thoughtful - Usercentric -
