The following terms are in everyday use in financial regions, such as commercial business and the management of large organisations such as corporations.
Noun phrases
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30,000 foot view | Program management view |
50,000 foot view | Highest management overview |
Bandwidth | Availability[1] |
Benchmark | Measuring against |
Best practice | Tried and tested methodology/process |
Blue sky thinking | Idealistic or visionary ideas, not always with practical application (source: BBC) |
Bottleneck | Where a process is held up |
Cascade | Array of possible actions to take in response to a problem: protocol |
Check in the box | Complete the task |
Cross-functional | Works in multiple directions simultaneously |
Customer-centric | The customer is the main focus |
Cutting edge practices | Up to date or new methods |
Dashboard | Collection of key indicators |
Data Moat | Large amounts of data acquired by an organization that can be harvested for sustainable, differentiating competitive advantage.[2] |
Deliverable(s) | Finished product or outcome |
Downsize | Reduce the number of employees through a lay-off |
End-user perspective | Point of view of a customer about a product or service |
Evergreen | Content that is always relevant[1] |
Flavour of the month | The current popular or trending activity |
Golden handshake | Contract clause which richly rewards a key employee in the case of termination |
Golden parachute | Contract clause richly (perhaps excessively) rewarding a key executive if termination is due to corporate takeover or merger |
Hard stop | Deadline[1] |
Hub | A central idea to which other ideas are linked |
In the loop | Knowing what's going on and being kept informed |
In the weeds | Immersed or entangled in details or complexities |
Joined-up thinking | Discussing the viewpoints of each organization and coming to an agreement or compromise |
Low-hanging fruit | Tasks that have the greatest positive effect for the least effort, used when promoting new projects to show the advantages.[1] |
Lay-off | Redundancies on a large scale |
Learnings | Acquired knowledge after an action/actions or process/processes has been completed |
Nesting | Processes within processes |
Off the shelf | Buying in a product or service that is already completed |
One button to push/Push of a button | Reduced number of suppliers |
Operational excellence | Sustainable improvement of key performance metrics |
Python | Challenging problem[1] |
Raft of measures | A collection of proposals or schemes |
Rattler | Obvious problem[1] |
Run it up the flagpole | Test the popularity of a new idea or proposal. [3] |
Scalability | A small component's ability to grow within a larger system[1] |
Silo (Vertical and Horizontal) | A system, process, department, etc. that operates in isolation from others. |
Silver bullet | One solution for everything[dubious – discuss] |
Six Sigma | A system for process improvement by error reduction |
Stakeholders | Group or individual affected by the outcome of a decision |
Talent | Employees |
Tent pole | The task or item most likely to delay a project or consume the most resources |
Under-pinning | The foundations of an idea, which helps another related scheme or proposal |
Unique selling proposition (USP) | Any aspect of an object that differentiates it from similar objects |
Win-win solution | Providing a product or service which makes everyone happy, particularly both buyer and seller |
Verb phrases
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Action that | Put something into practice[1] |
Baked in | Something which has been "baked in" is implied to be impossible to remove. Alternatively, "baked in" can refer to a desirable, although non-essential, property of a product being incorporated for the user's convenience. |
Boil the ocean | Undertake an impossible or impractical task [1] |
Buck the trend | To follow an action against market tendencies |
Build capacity | Take actions which increase the amount of work that can be done in the future. |
Circle back | Discuss later[1] |
Circle the wagons | Defensive strategy to provide time to plan or produce a better solution |
Cover all directions of the compass | Ensure the product specification covers everything |
Create the storyboard | Outline what the solution will look like |
Deep dive | Get into the detail |
Drill down | Investigate in depth [1] |
Flogging a dead horse | Wasting efforts[1] |
Have the vendor in our pocket | Keep a vendor/contractors paid |
Ideate | Come up with ideas[1] |
Land and expand | To sell a small solution and then grow it within the client's environment |
Make hay | Productive or successful in a short time[1] |
Moving forward | Making progress on an idea or scheme |
Move the goal posts | Change the criteria for success[1] |
Pick the low-hanging fruit | Go (initially) for the easiest options [1] |
Power to the elbow | Get additional backup information to make your case stronger |
Pull the plug | Close a venture that is losing money or has no prospects of success |
Punt | Relinquish responsibility[1] |
Pushing the envelope | Going outside normal boundaries to achieve a target or goal (such as exceeding specifications) |
Put this on your radar | Consider this[1] |
Scrub the numbers | Find errors[1] |
Sing from the same hymn sheet | Show a united front, or everyone understanding and saying the same thing to clientele. |
Table the conversation | Reconvene at a later time[1] |
Test the water | 'Put your toe' into a market to determine its temperature. |
Touch base | To meet up with a colleague to discuss progress (from baseball) |
Touch base offline | Meet and talk[1] |
Tranch up the workload | Divide responsibilities[1] |
Trim the fat | Cut excess budgets, remove avoidable costs [1] |
Unscramble that egg | Take care of that mess[1] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Alisa Wolfson (June 23, 2017). "18 obnoxious things that everyone in the office should stop saying". Moneyish.com / Dow Jones & Company.
- ^ "What is a Data Moat?".
- ^ "Flagpole". Oxford Dictionary. lexico.com. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- Geffner, Andrea B. (2004), "A glossary of business terms", Business English, Barrons Educational Series, ISBN 9780764124440