Several months ago I wrote a blog post asking -What is the most annoying corporate buzzword going to be for 2010? -
I took to my Twitter account and my Linkedin Groups and asked the same question. I was flooded with responses (over 1,000) and I have spent the last couple of hours tabulating the results.
Here are the results counting down from 10 to 1, with 1 being the:
10. Value add
9. Leverage
8. Bandwith
7. Paradigm shift
6. End of the Day
5. Reach out
4. Synergy
3. Think outside of the box
2. Low hanging fruit
and the # 1 Most Annoying and Overused Business Buzzword of 2010 is:
What do you think of the results?
Please feel free to use the comment section to share the buzzwords and corporate jargon that annoys you the most.
I need to take a deeper dive into this list before I can determine the deliverables.
Great post! Synergy is the worst! I’m so sick of hearing that.
I’m not sure what the value add is on this. Honestly, it just seems like low hanging fruit.
Perhaps, at the end of the day, you should think outside the box, reach out to people, and go for a paradigm shift.
These are really interesting buzzwords! I can particularly identify with “low hanging fruit”. I hope that one doesn’t survive in 2011. One phrase that I think will dominate the upcoming year is cloud computing and Software as a Service related phrases. The efficiency of using such a service in complex areas such as portfolio analysis allows users’ costs to be drastically reduced, enabling the smaller players to now be a part of the game.
I also assume that we will be hearing a lot more social media related terms in the new year.