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Thursday, November 06, 2008
Words
Three clever words I've heard this week that I understand, but have never used myself
Atrophy
Synergy
Paradigm
A newly invented word I came across for the first time
webinar (a seminar that takes place online)
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
LOL! I work in High Tech and Business Consulting Services, and I hear and use most of those words daily. In fact, I've grown fairly weary of them by now *sigh*. Other words I'm really tired of:
leverage value-add procurement right-shoring
Yuck.
And I get invited to way too many Webinars each week. Ugh!
"Right-shoring" is an evolution of the term "off-shoring" which means to provide services from somewhere else, better, cheaper....as in outsourcing one's manufacturing to India or China.
Right-shoring refers to optimizing where/how you do something -- manufacture clothing, develop software, etc. Is it better to do it domestically, or somewhere else....usually referring to labor arbitrage and cost savings.
3 comments:
LOL! I work in High Tech and Business Consulting Services, and I hear and use most of those words daily. In fact, I've grown fairly weary of them by now *sigh*. Other words I'm really tired of:
leverage
value-add
procurement
right-shoring
Yuck.
And I get invited to way too many Webinars each week. Ugh!
I don't know "right shoring". What does that mean?
Webinar is such an ugly word. Its not too bad written down, but spoken it just sounds silly.
"Right-shoring" is an evolution of the term "off-shoring" which means to provide services from somewhere else, better, cheaper....as in outsourcing one's manufacturing to India or China.
Right-shoring refers to optimizing where/how you do something -- manufacture clothing, develop software, etc. Is it better to do it domestically, or somewhere else....usually referring to labor arbitrage and cost savings.
Yawn. :)
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