PAAS
Unsucked:
Platform-as-a-service. The delivery of a computing platform and a set of software subsystems over the Internet. Yet another instance of soulless technical jargon trampling our childhoods.
Platform-as-a-service. The delivery of a computing platform and a set of software subsystems over the Internet. Yet another instance of soulless technical jargon trampling our childhoods.
Problem.
The unattainable goal/fantasy of the digital age. Only happens when the printer is down, or the boss who needs his e-mail printed is out of town.
This new paradigm cuts through techno-jargon and targets the common sense marketing-driven requirements for creating a website designed to grow a business.
Trumped up concept recently coined as a substitute for actual innovation.
In order to overcome their current woes, Microsoft will need to undergo a paradigm shift.
A new, crappy reality to which employees or customers must accommodate themselves. Change in basic assumptions or a profound shift in perception. Possibly the most overused, diluted, otherwise useful and descriptive phrase.
Talk about later.
We need to develop a strategy to move homemaker passionistas further down the Febreze purchase funnel.
Person who is interested in something. Usually whatever cheap trinket you’re hawking to hide the shame that’s become your life.
So, path forward, we will have a meeting on Monday to discuss and go over the budget then.
Next or in the future.
A three-letter acronym for “I don’t know how to use the internet so I’m attaching a text document to this e-mail message/web page.”
Schedule, with the understanding that you are going to flake at the last minute in favor of someone more important.
Fast enough.
You need an engaging social media strategy to build your personal brand.
Hairstyle and choice of coffee. Reputation.
Dirty behavior, poorly hidden, the discovery of which forces a highly placed individual to leave their plummy gig. May include lying on resume, having affair, and/or substance abuse.
Just to piggyback on what Chad said, in addition to a new menu on the corporate jet, we should think about adding massaging seats.
Add to/on.
E-mail me, chat with me, or let me know.
If our innovative social interaction model doesn’t get any traction, we’re going to pivot to kittens.
Chase the same rabbit down a different hole in search of its pot of gold. Change direction.
Investors are bullish on our innovative platform for information and knowledge sharing.
A thing that does some stuff. Money!
Platishers are publishers that provide the audience with a platform to contribute content in an effort to generate traffic.
A novel portmanteau combining “publisher” and “desperate pandering”.
Send me a list of all the players who will be at today’s sales team lunch.
Person or participant. Unless you are dealing with a Bond villain or toddler MBAs, meetings are not games.
Jean-Claude will be the point person organizing the meetings, structure and follow up.
The member of a project team who is specifically designated to ignore your e-mail.
An outstanding puzzle-platform video game released in 2007. The precursor to the amazing Portal 2. A web page with a bunch of links on it.
Review or retrospective.
Oh, yes! That’s very important to me. Let’s have a powwow about this first thing tomorrow.
Yet more unthinking appropriation of Native American culture. Meeting.
Their viral marketing endeavored to create some kind of drama to generate pre-buzz before the sandwich was officially released.
Discernible hype emitted during the early stages of consumer excitement or soon after the insertion of the concept into the marketplace.
Most facilitators and team leaders I’ve talked to see the value of assigning some sort of pre-work before a virtual meeting.
Preparation. Specific tasks to be completed in advance of an activity. A vague term for heinous busywork designed to camouflage the level of effort involved.
Presentation or slides.
A tedious, needlessly verbose blog post.
Archaic. The state of being hidden from the view of others.
We’re aligning with business imperatives and including a proactive partner portfolio recruitment plan run by the marketing organization.
Aggressively committed to accomplishing something vague.
Productization may reduce inefficiencies in developing and delivering offerings
Sell an idea you developed for one client to as many others as possible with no additional work. Also, turn a half-baked technology into a product by virtue of some marketing materials.
The most important proof point is that we can not just talk about our results, but also institutionalize it in terms of bringing a chief sustainability officer for our group.
Supporting example.
Execute an idea by firing squad. Decide or do.
We only have three requests for that bug fix. Let’s punt it to the next major release.
Finish later.
I got push back from the marketing committee on the new logo design.
Resistance or opposition. Frequently in the form of political maneuvering or stupidity sufficient to generate a physical force.
As if Burger King’s major menu development in 2010 wasn’t enough, new owners 3G Capital and a fresh team of executives decided to push the envelope.
In mathematics, an envelope is a curve that is tangential to each one of a family of curves in a plane. A flight envelope is the particular combination of speed, height, stress and other aeronautical factors that form the bounds of safe operation. To “push the envelope” is to take an aircraft to or beyond designated altitude and speed limits.
Making push-pull marketing a part of your everyday efforts optimizes opportunities.
Shoving your product so hard down your customer’s throat that it creates vacuum suction. As feasible as getting to your destination by latching onto one of those Doctor Doolittle llama things.
Just a heads-up: I spent all morning putting out fires, so I’m not totally prepared for this afternoon’s meeting.
Solving unexpected problems.
What is the playbook to get a quick win with your performance management projects?
The appearance of quick, substantive progress, often at the expense of longer-term goals.
We just need a quick-and-dirty solution for this.
Short term fix that requires no thought. See quick win.
Rip off and Duplicate.
A marketing guy who digs through other people’s garbage for shiny things he finds impressive and washes his food obsessively before eating.
As our business continues to scale dramatically, it’s a perfect time to bring in a seasoned rainmaker.
A colleague who eats souls and pisses money.
Fill you in.
I am going to reach out to the Senior VP of Finance next week.
Contact, as though from under the bed or behind a tree in a dark forest, extending a small moist hand.
We want avoid the need to realize negative gains until we have buy-in from all the stakeholders.
Accept losses.
My reco is to go with the one with the best in class value proposition.
Recommendation.
The market for energy drinks is a huge red ocean, but with a differentiated “focus” product.
Crowded, competitive market.
Sarah Palin’s status as a spokesperson for the U.S. was repudiated by linguists and liberals across the nation after she urged Muslims to “refudiate” a controversial mosque and compared herself to William Shakespeare.
Reject or refuse.
Don’t reinvent the wheel—just rotate the tires to make it right for the social track.
Devise a new solution from scratch when you could have easily copied from someone else.
Structure change.
Delivering a radically innovative degree of precise access to your wallet.
People, money, or that one section of your website that’s just a shameful junk drawer of miscellaneous links.
Payoff.
So how exactly is the Cherry Car Wash going to revolutionize the automotive car wash industry?
Improve. Introduce a new product or service within an otherwise banal and disappointing industry, such as airlines or Mexican chain restaurants.
Go off on a useless tangent.
We need to rightsize the department in order to meet our profit objective.
Chicken shit for firing.
Project plan (usually includes a timeline).
Our production team is robust enough to support the level of demand we expect to see in Q1.
Strong or powerful.
Adequate programmer.
Collection.
Meeting or conference.
Much like diamonds, a common item whose false scarcity and class associations have been trumped up by a sophisticated marketing campaign.
I’m not sure. I’m going to have to run that up the flagpole and get back to you.
Float an idea. Check initial reactions before committing. Prepare to throw a colleague under the bus if it isn’t well-received.
With a $4 million priced series A investment, we’ll have the runway to fully launch our beard-density tracking app.
Amount of time before layoffs.