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Campus Cool
IIM AHMEDABADThe most popular...Buzzwords: Day Zero, Arbit (high-sounding, meaningless talk), 'Tuchchadom' the status of being a sophomore, I-school top performing students who get industry scholarships, Night Out staying awake all night to finish some assignmentHang-outs: CT, that is Cafe TANSTAFL There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, LKP...
Tags: buzzword, food, Manufacturing, McKinsey & Co., Strategy
Research articles 2006-07-16
Buzzwords: take them or leave them.(INDUSTRY TRENDS)
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal WSJ listed four of the business world's latest buzzwords: Delayering. Not to be confused with a new trend in building or architecture, delayering is another word for managers being fired. The word is from the family...
Tags: buzzword, Strategy, Wall Street Journal
Research articles 2006-05-01
BusiBUZZ™ is a Hit ''On the Street''; A Phrase Handbook for Those Who Want to Play Business Hardball
SAN FRANCISCO -- Today, author J. Randy Gordon announced the launch of his debut book, BusiBUZZ (www.busibuzz.com). The book was unveiled last night at the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, Gordon's MBA Program alma mater. Gordon brings forth his 15 years of experience in blue-chip companies such as The...
Tags: buzzword, Coca-Cola Co., conference, MARKETING, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., UbiSoft Entertainment, University of California at Los Angeles
Research articles 2006-04-11
Do%27s and Don%27ts for Analyst Briefings
Do%27s and Don%27ts for Analyst BriefingsThe Buzzword GameAccording to a senior fellow at Gartner a former boss of mine, the analysts play "The Buzzword Game" when being briefed as a group. Everyone takes out their blackberry and SMSs the other analysts every buzzword that the presenter uses. The...
Tags: Buzzword
Discussion threads 2007-10-18
Technology: Razzle Zazzle 'Em
Wearing a T shirt that says I'M WITH STUPID is lame. But wearing the same shirt with your husband's name printed at the bottom is funny. "Customized e-commerce" is the new buzzword in Silicon Valley, thanks to a $16 million investment by top venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins in a start-up...
Tags: buzzword, E-business/E-commerce, FINANCE, husband, INTERNET, Investment, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Research articles 2005-08-08
Resume Faux Pas (Design News)
Drop those buzzwords, Boeing recruiters tell job seekers Copying and pasting the job requirements onto your resume will only get you so far when applying for a job online, according to Boeing's top recruiters. The aerospace giant received 2 million online applications for the 20,000...
Tags: Boeing Co., buzzword, job, jobseeker, Manufacturing
Research articles 2005-02-07
How to Drive Marketing Crazy
How to Drive Marketing CrazySales Lead CollateralGood summary of meaningless jargon. Additional issue is how can the collateral copy vow the target customer?How to Drive Marketing CrazyAs an attack on meaningless buzzwords, this sounds great. But the remedy may be worse than the disease. The author proposes substituting...
Tags: buzzword, marketing, Plain-talk
Discussion threads 2007-02-20
How to Drive Marketing Crazy
Actually, I’m going to tell you how to get your marketing group to create brochures that actually help you make sales. The fact that the technique drives marketing geeks crazy is just an amusing side benefit. I worked in marketing for six years in the early 90s. ...
Tags: General, Sales Tips, marketing, buzzword, sales, Sales strategy, Marketing research, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2007-02-20
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn., Dave Beal Column.
By Dave Beal, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 18--The language of business has long been a fat target for critics. Jargon and buzzwords are everywhere. Euphemisms abound. Doublespeak is commonplace. ...
Tags: buzzword, CEO, Deloitte LLP, FINANCE, Games, INTERNET, Investment, MARKETING
Research articles 2004-02-18
Jargon is no substitute for progress.
Aficionados of Buzzword Bingo will have been delighted to learn that Tony Kirby has joined Reuters as group marketing director responsible for straight-through processing STP. For the uninitiated, Buzzword Bingo provides a safe and amusing way of idling away those difficult weekday hours between nine and...
Tags: buzzword, CAREER, Jargon, SOFTWARE, Strategy, Thomson Reuters Corp.
Research articles 2002-03-25
O'Reilly's Chat/Web Conferencing Software is Upgraded to Enterprise Version; WebBoard 3.0 Beta Freely Available for Download
SEBASTOPOL, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 3, 1998--"Chat" is one of the industry's hottest buzzwords. Group chat and forums software allows Web sites to create dynamic communities of users who return frequently to spend money or simply pay attention to content. O'Reilly & Associates has...
Tags: Business Wire, buzzword, Databases, INTERNET, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1998-02-03
In Microsoft's Juggernaut, It's Hard to Tell Track from Engine.(Originated from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Oct. 21--Like much else in the world of high technology, Microsoft's troubles with the Justice Department can be traced to a buzzword. In this case, Microsoft's own buzzword may come back to haunt it. Oct. 21--Like much else in the world...
Tags: buzzword, Microsoft Corp.
Research articles 1997-10-21
Productivity is the buzzword of the hour.(Technology)(IBM Global Insurance Executive Conference)
Productivity--enhanced and enabled by technology--was the buzzword of the hour, as vendors and insurers met here recently for the IBM Global Insurance Executive Conference. Productivity--enhanced and enabled by technology--was the buzzword of the hour, as vendors and insurers met here recently for the IBM...
Tags: buzzword, IBM Corp., Productivity
Research articles 2003-09-29
Productivity is new buzzword.(Technology)
Productivity--enhanced and enabled by technology--was the buzzword of the hour, as vendors and insurers met here in September for the IBM Global Insurance Executive Conference. In today's economic climate, success means "a relentless focus on Productivity--enhanced and enabled by technology--was the buzzword ...
Tags: buzzword, IBM Corp., insurance company, productivity, Productivity, technology
Research articles 2003-10-06
"Strategic Leadership"
Mission, vision, values, goals, objectives, and strategic planning are just some of the leadership buzzwords of the late 20th Century. Virtually all professional executives have attempted to understand what all the buzzwords mean and make them a reality. Few have succeeded and most continue to search for what bridges the...
Tags: Buzzword, Leadership, Management
White papers
Content-Free Buzzword-Compliant Vocabulary List
How many times have you read marketing materials for software that did not contain any real information? This paper explains list of meaningless buzzwords and ways to avoid them. The powerful software is flexible, intuitive, easy-to-use and integrates seamlessly with your other tools. Robust and scalable, your organization can enjoy...
Tags: Buzzword, Pragmatic Marketing, Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management
White papers 2007-12-01
3 Golden Rules Of Multi-Tasking: How To Determine If Multi-Tasking Is The Way To Go
Don't get sucked in by the corporate demand to always be doing two things at once. There are appropriate times to multi-task but there are also times to just say "No!" Multi-tasking is the corporate buzzword de jour. Having the ability to multi-task seems to be a standard requirement for...
Tags: Buzzword, Suite101, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2007-09-13
Begin At The Beginning In Organizational Change
The world is rapidly changing into something too hard to easily predict, with a hundred opportunities and pitfalls passing by every moment. To add to this confusion, there are hundreds, if not thousands of techniques, solutions and methods that claim to help business improve productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. In...
Tags: Buzzword, Organized Change, Productivity, Product Marketing, Marketing
White papers 2008-01-01
Good Use for Buzzwords: Corporate Bingo!
I wrote yesterday about my distaste of corporate jargon in the workplace, and already a few of you have chimed in with great comments. My favorite thus far comes from jwlester, who suggested: "Let's use Corporate Bingo as a solution. Bingo cards with the buzzwords in the boxes are...
Tags: Buzzword, Corporate Training, Training And Certification, CC Holland
Blog posts 2009-02-26
B-School Blogs: Election Reactions, Buzzwords in Action, and Jack Welch
Sync HBS is gearing up for the official kick-off of recruiting season and feeling slightly cheered by the word from the Career Services office, which says job postings for first years are up 34 percent this year. Meanwhile, a case discussion about Jack Welch and his 20-year reign as CEO...
Tags: Buzzword, Recruiting, Stanford, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-11-10
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