http://old.atsmath.com/taxonomy/term/319/all en http://old.atsmath.com/blog/british-governments-banned-buzzwords <p>In March last year the British government issued an official list of words that have been banned from use by the councils in order that council members effectively communicate. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7948894.stm" title="British government bans buzzword usage in councils">Read the BBC reports on this</a>.</p> <p>I find this quite amusing.. and I also think that this is a <span style="font-family: Impact, Arial Black; font-size: 14px;">Good Thing</span>, albeit a rather daft list ("client" is a buzzword?). With people everywhere reading many of the same things thanks to the high-speed information sharing of the internet, the meanings of catchy phrases will often become warped or altogether changed, and either way, lose their meaning and their impact. </p> <p>The <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7949077.stm" title="British Government banned buzzwords">full list of the banned words</a> below:</p> <table style="margin:0 30px; background:#e6e6e6; padding:15px;"> <tr> <td>Agencies</td> <td>Ambassador</td> <td>Area based</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Area focused</td> <td>Autonomous</td> <td>Baseline</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Beacon</td> <td>Benchmarking</td> <td>Best Practice</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Blue sky thinking</td> <td>Bottom-Up</td> <td>CAAs</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Can do culture</td> <td>Capabilities</td> <td>Capacity</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Capacity building</td> <td>Cascading</td> <td>Cautiously welcome</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Challenge</td> <td>Champion</td> <td>Citizen empowerment</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Client</td> <td>Cohesive communities</td> <td>Cohesiveness</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Collaboration</td> <td>Commissioning</td> <td>Community engagement</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Compact</td> <td>Conditionality</td> <td>Consensual</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Contestability</td> <td>Contextual</td> <td>Core Message</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Core principles</td> <td>Core Value</td> <td>Coterminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Coterminous</td> <td>Cross-cutting</td> <td>Cross-fertilisation</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Customer</td> <td>Democratic legitimacy</td> <td>Democratic mandate</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dialogue</td> <td>Direction of travel</td> <td>Distorts spending priorities</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Double devolution</td> <td>Downstream</td> <td>Early Win</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Edge-fit</td> <td>Embedded</td> <td>Empowerment</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Enabler</td> <td>Engagement</td> <td>Engaging users</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Enhance</td> <td>Evidence Base</td> <td>Exemplar</td> </tr> <tr> <td>External challenge</td> <td>Facilitate</td> <td>Fast-Track</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Flex</td> <td>Flexibilities and Freedoms</td> <td>Framework</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fulcrum</td> <td>Functionality</td> <td>Funding streams</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gateway review</td> <td>Going forward</td> <td>Good practice</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Governance</td> <td>Guidelines</td> <td>Holistic</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Holistic governance</td> <td>Horizon scanning</td> <td>Improvement levers</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Incentivising</td> <td>Income streams</td> <td>Indicators</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Initiative</td> <td>Innovative capacity</td> <td>Inspectorates</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Interdepartmental</td> <td>Interface</td> <td>Iteration</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Joined up</td> <td>Joint working</td> <td>LAAs</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Level playing field</td> <td>Lever</td> <td>Leverage</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Localities</td> <td>Lowlights</td> <td>MAAs</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mainstreaming</td> <td>Management capacity</td> <td>Meaningful consultation</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Meaningful dialogue</td> <td>Mechanisms</td> <td>Menu of Options</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Multi-agency</td> <td>Multidisciplinary</td> <td>Municipalities</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Network model</td> <td>Normalising</td> <td>Outcomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Output</td> <td>Outsourced</td> <td>Overarching</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Paradigm</td> <td>Parameter</td> <td>Participatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Partnership working</td> <td>Partnerships</td> <td>Pathfinder</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Peer challenge</td> <td>Performance Network</td> <td>Place shaping</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pooled budgets</td> <td>Pooled resources</td> <td>Pooled risk</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Populace</td> <td>Potentialities</td> <td>Practitioners</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Predictors of Beaconicity</td> <td>Preventative services</td> <td>Prioritization</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Priority</td> <td>Proactive</td> <td>Process driven</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Procure</td> <td>Procurement</td> <td>Promulgate</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Proportionality</td> <td>Protocol</td> <td>Provider vehicles</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Quantum</td> <td>Quick hit</td> <td>Quick win</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rationalisation</td> <td>Rebaselining</td> <td>Reconfigured</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Resource allocation</td> <td>Revenue Streams</td> <td>Risk based</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Robust</td> <td>Scaled-back</td> <td>Scoping</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sector wise</td> <td>Seedbed</td> <td>Self-aggrandizement</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Service users</td> <td>Shared priority</td> <td>Shell developments</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Signpost</td> <td>Single conversations</td> <td>Single point of contact</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Situational</td> <td>Slippage</td> <td>Social contracts</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Social exclusion</td> <td>Spatial</td> <td>Stakeholder</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Step change</td> <td>Strategic</td> <td>Strategic priorities</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Streamlined</td> <td>Sub-regional</td> <td>Subsidiarity</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sustainable</td> <td>Sustainable communities</td> <td>Symposium ­­</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Synergies</td> <td>Systematics</td> <td>Taxonomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tested for Soundness</td> <td>Thematic</td> <td>Thinking outside of the box</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Third sector</td> <td>Toolkit</td> <td>Top-down</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Trajectory</td> <td>Tranche</td> <td>Transactional</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Transformational</td> <td>Transparency</td> <td>Upstream</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Upward trend</td> <td>Utilise</td> <td>Value-added</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Vision ­</td> <td>Visionary</td> <td>Welcome</td> </tr> </table> <p>We could use such a list in tech. <em><strong>Web 2.0</strong></em> anyone?</p> http://old.atsmath.com/blog/british-governments-banned-buzzwords#comments Britain Buzzwords Jargon Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:03:17 +0000 Smath 6620 at http://old.atsmath.com