Comments on: Buzzword Bingo

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:33:58 +0000

“glean nuggets”
Example: I’m hoping to glean nuggets about our capabilities in…

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:10:55 +0000

Oooh, I forgot about “deliverables”. That’s sickening, too.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:10:03 +0000

I was just thinking about some of these today, and how certain buzzwords and phrases literally make me nauseous anymore. My top offenders:

–”outside the box”
–”reinvent the wheel”
–”ramp up”
–”get our arms around this”
–”strategize”

Bleccch.

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:22 +0000

That kimono one is new to me… one that I hate is “reach out to” – as in, Meg, why don’t you reach out to the marketing director. Perhaps she can provide some insight through meaningful dialogue.” Oh, and “deliverables.” GAH.

By: Peter North

Peter North — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:01:47 +0000

That is a terrific one; I just looked it up.

Perhaps if you can’t play “Buzzword Bingo” you could play “Buzzword Bait,” and see if you can lead a meeting or conversation towards certain buzzwords.

It would be a great way to featurize and relanguage any sort of information touchpoint.

By: Joe Kesonu

Joe Kesonu — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:19:12 +0000

My absolute favourite that my former boss used to use almost once a day.

“open the kimono”

Always made me chuckle just a bit. In fact, I would incite him to say based on our conversation. I would say something like “we should get to the bottom of that issue”. And he would agree and then drop his favourite buzz phrase.

By: Carl Natale

Carl Natale — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:49:44 +0000

On my card I have:

-Win-win
-Monetize
-ROI
-Bullet points
-Evaluate penetration (You would be surprised how often this is used outside the porn industry)
-Capture
-Optimization
-Paradigm shift (Already mentioned but a beautiful phrase nonetheless)

By: Ashim

Ashim — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:14:51 +0000

There’s an awesome pic called “Project Management Bingo Lingo” (cant find the full version on the web. This has some hilarious phrases like-

Analysis paralysis
Crunch mode
Keeping you up at night
Herding cats
TPS report
Silver Bullet
Setup for Failure
Open kimono

cant remember more..

By: Nick Allen

Nick Allen — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:20:44 +0000

My US colleagues have some real good ones.

- Reaching out (often used to measure outreach)
- If you have bandwidth (ironic as our IT can never keep ours high enough)
- Lawyer up
- Herding Cats
- Web 3.0 (no really)

By: Nabeel | Start An Internet Business

Nabeel | Start An Internet Business — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:12:50 +0000

I have never heard of buzzword bingo. This is the first time I heard about it.

Though I do not get it fully, I will give a try from the example:

add value

bigger picture

best practice

paradigm shift

push the envelope

strategic fit

fast track

proactive thinking

outside the box