15 Most Misused Buzzwords In IT
CIO, Monday, February 10th, 2025
The tech industry is rife with overhyped jargon. Here IT leaders discuss buzzy terms all too often misapplied by vendors and colleagues alike.
CIOs constantly speak about the need to drop the technical jargon and talk 'the language of business.' Yet, they don't except business to do the same.
They say their colleagues in the other departments - finance, marketing, sales, operations - are more digitally literate and technically astute than ever before, but CIOs rarely press their co-workers to get better at tech talk.
There's no demand from IT for the rest of the organization to learn the collection of acronyms, catchphrases, and jargon that serve as shorthand for the tools and techniques of the IT trade - even as the language of IT spills out across the enterprise and society itself.