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.
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 - User-centric -
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