Blue Sky Thinking. Seamless. And All that Rot.

[Lord Bracknell]

There is something I'd like to pop into your percolator to see if it comes out brown.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

A seamless integrated approach for the end user, creates an ecosystem that cross pollinates big data. That's why leading on this vision is central to building, first to market, sustainable, partnerships.

No, no it doesn't.

 

[Badger]

When did we stop speaking English and start stringing words together to form meaningless sentences? I work for a large multi-national and I just don't understand what the Americans say half the time.

The trouble with America is that EVERYONE speaks like that ALL the time.

There is something I'd like to pop into your percolator to see if it comes out brown.

I'll leave you to digest that and see what comes out.

 

[pasty]

Is it

Sadly, it is......

ideation
Pronunciation: /ˌʌɪdɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
[mass noun]
the formation of ideas or concepts.
Derivatives

ideational
adjective
ideationally
adverb

 

[Adders1]

I work very closely now with our American teams and I HATE " Reach out" In that " Dave, can you reach out to xxxx and get that information".....No I wont reach out, I will fecking well ASK him/her!!!!

I still think the best one I have ever heard is we " Leverage the Continuum".

Funniest one, is " Re-allign the expectations of the client" ie. " we can't do what we told you, so here is something different instead"

the term 'reach out' used to make me want to reach out and punch someone.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

I have a particular aversion to stakeholders, unless they're extras in a vampire film.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

This afternoons gobbledygook was:

'i really apreciate you bringing this possibility to us, its obvious your drawing not only on your experiance and delivering on your role but looking beyond the horizon for all of us holistically. I think we should all run with this and I want you to be the quarterback'

Eh? I had to ask a colleague what on earth it meant...

'she liked the idea and you got the go ahead'. People talk in bleedin riddles!

 

[Shuggie]

Ideation - that's a new one.

I actually had to google that one as I didn't think it was a real word!

Is it ? I assumed it was some ******* son extrapolation of Idea and Creation, or some such.

Not that new ...

James Mill 1829: "As we say Sensation, we might also say Ideation; it would be a very useful word... Sensation is the general name for one part of our constitution..Ideation for another."

Perhaps that explains why he isn't terribly well known.

Anyways, I've just joined a new company where all the Executive Knobs and the Wannabe Knobs are forever asking (reaching out to?) people to "call out" something. I just don't understand what they are saying although they might simply be asking people to "explain" something. Anyone know for sure?

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Re: Bad films you love

Edit becuase I seem to have posted a response from another thread in here. Stupid tablet.

 

[jakarta]

The worst year of my working life was when I had the misfortune to work for an American Corporation who specialised in this sort of bullshit on a day to day basis (never mind actually doing any work - today you have an online hollistic workplace environmental conceptualisation course to complete)

I often used to wonder how on Earth the USA had won the Cold War with a population made up of these knobs......

 

[Biscuit]

No, no it doesn't.

You're not very good at this, are you?

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

Ideation - that's a new one.

I've only ever seen it following "suicidal", as in "suicidal ideation", as in the portrayal of suicide and rationalization of thoughts of suicide, that responsible writers of fiction should avoid because reading it can make it easier for people with depression to progress to suicidal thoughts, and for those with suicidal thoughts to move closer to action.

So not a word I'd rush into using in marketing material myself, even if it didn't sound like ugly jargon. Which it surely does.

 

[Pevenseagull]

There is something I'd like to pop into your percolator to see if it comes out brown.

when are we gonna get this turkey basted?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It's from Glenn Murray's company - Vamp!

http://www.vamp.co.uk/services

 

[Rookie]

Diarise, hate the word with a passion.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Whenever I read something like that, I assume that the company/person does not really know what they are talking about. Explain something in layman's terms or not at all!

 

[Nibble]

Would that sort of spiel entice you in to giving them business?

No. It doesn't mean anything. It's interesting that the most office bound/uncreative jobs tend to use this kind of "creative" rhetoric yet the most pure creative industries use none of it. In my business you are much more likely to hear "It's going to be a shit, long, boring day. Get it done and let's all get home".