Common Management Terminology

• Advertising: The process of paying for the placement of a message in various media to promote a product, service, or idea.
• Affiliate Marketing: The process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s products or services.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): The process of creating machines and computer systems that can perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation.
• Benchmarking: The process of comparing an organization’s performance against industry standards or best practices to identify areas for improvement.
• Big Data: The process of working with large and complex sets of data to extract insights and make predictions.
• Blockchain: The process of maintaining a decentralized and distributed digital ledger that records transactions across a network of computers.
• Brand Management: The process of creating, developing, and managing an organization’s reputation and image.
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• Business Analytics: The process of using data, statistical models, and other quantitative methods to extract insights and make informed decisions.
• Business Continuity Management: The process of ensuring that an organization can continue to operate in the event of a disaster or other disruption.
• Business Ethics: The process of evaluating and addressing moral issues that arise in a business context.
• Business Intelligence (BI): The process of using data, technology, and tools to analyze business information and make data-driven decisions.
• Business Model Innovation: The process of creating or changing the way an organization creates, delivers, and captures value.
• Business Model: The process and structure of how a company creates and delivers value to its customers and captures revenue.
• Business Process Automation (BPA): The use of technology to automate repetitive, manual, and rule-based business processes.
• Business Process Reengineering (BPR): The process of fundamentally redesigning an organization’s processes to achieve significant improvements in performance.
• Change management: The process of preparing, supporting, and enabling individuals, teams, and organizations to transition to a desired future state.
• Cloud Computing: The process of delivering computing services such as storage, processing, and software over the internet.
• Communication: The process of exchanging information and ideas through spoken or written words, symbols, or behavior.
• Compensation Management: The process of determining and distributing financial and non-financial rewards to employees in exchange for their work.
• Competitive Analysis: The process of identifying and evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of competitors in order to gain a competitive advantage.
• Compliance Management: The process of ensuring that an organization is adhering to laws, regulations, standards, and ethical principles.
• Conflict Resolution: The process of resolving disputes or disagreements between individuals or groups.
• Content Marketing: The process of creating and sharing valuable and relevant content to attract and engage customers and prospects.
• Continuous Improvement: The process of continually seeking and implementing changes to improve processes, products, or services.
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): The process of considering the impact of an organization’s actions on society and the environment and taking responsibility for them.
• Crisis Management: The process of identifying, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an unexpected event that has the potential to harm an organization’s reputation or operations.
• Customer Relationship Management: The process of managing interactions with current and potential customers to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Cybersecurity: The process of protecting computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
• Data Governance: The process of managing and maintaining the quality, security, and accessibility of data to support decision-making and compliance.
• Data Management: The process of collecting, storing, maintaining, and using data in an organized and efficient manner to support the decision-making process.
• Data Privacy: The process of protecting personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
• Data Quality: The process of ensuring that data is accurate, complete, and consistent.
• Data Security: The process of protecting data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
• Decision Making: The process of choosing the best course of action among a set of alternatives.
• Delegation: The process of assigning authority and responsibility to others to perform specific tasks or make decisions.
• Descriptive Analytics: The process of summarizing and describing data using statistics and visualizations.
• Digital Marketing: The process of using digital channels such as social media, search engines, email, and websites to promote products or services.
• Digital Transformation: The process of using digital technologies to fundamentally change how an organization operates and delivers value to customers.
• Direct Marketing: The process of reaching customers directly through mail, email, phone, or other channels, with the goal of making a sale or gathering information.
• Distribution Strategy: The process of choosing the most effective channels for getting a product or service to customers.
• Diversity and Inclusion: The process of creating an inclusive culture that values and leverages the unique differences and similarities of individuals, teams and organizations.
• E-commerce: The process of buying and selling goods and services over the internet.
• Employee Benefits Administration: The process of managing and administering employee benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, and other perks.
• Employee Development: The process of providing employees with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform their current and future roles effectively.
• Employee Engagement: The process of creating a culture in which employees feel connected to their work, colleagues, and the organization.
• Employee Performance Management: The process of setting performance expectations, monitoring progress, providing feedback, and taking corrective action to ensure that employees meet or exceed those expectations.
• Employee Relations: The process of maintaining a positive and productive relationship between an organization and its employees.
• Employee Retention: The process of keeping employees within an organization over a long period of time.
• Empowerment: The process of giving employees the authority, resources, and support they need to make decisions and take action to improve their work and the organization as a whole.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): An integrated system that uses a single database to manage all aspects of an organization’s business processes.
• Event Marketing: The process of creating and promoting events to generate brand awareness, customer engagement, or sales.
• Experiential Marketing: The process of creating memorable and engaging experiences that connect customers emotionally with a brand or product.
• Financial management: The process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the financial resources of an organization to achieve its goals and objectives.
• Franchising: The process of allowing a third party (franchisee) to use a company’s trademark, products, and business model in exchange for a fee.
• Human resources management: The process of acquiring, developing, and managing the human resources of an organization to achieve its goals and objectives.
• Inbound Marketing: The process of attracting customers through content and interactions that are relevant and helpful.
• Influencer Marketing: The process of leveraging the power of influential people to promote a product or service.
• Innovation: The process of introducing innovative ideas, products, services, or ways to improve organizational performance.
• Internet of Things (IoT): The process of connecting everyday devices and objects to the internet to enable the collection and exchange of data.
• Inventory Management: The process of managing the storage and movement of goods and materials to ensure that an adequate supply is available to meet customer demand.
• IT Management: The process of managing the use of technology within an organization to achieve its goals and objectives.
• Joint Ventures: The process of forming a strategic alliance between two or more companies to jointly pursue a specific business opportunity.
• Knowledge Management: The process of acquiring, creating, organizing, sharing, and using knowledge to achieve specific goals and objectives.
• Leadership: The ability to influence and guide people to achieve a common goal.
• Lean Management: A process improvement methodology that aims to eliminate waste and increase efficiency in an organization.
• Management: The process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals and objectives.
• Market Research: The process of gathering and analyzing information about customers, competitors, and the market to inform business decisions.
• Market Segmentation: The process of dividing a market into smaller groups of customers with similar needs or characteristics.
• Marketing Analytics: The process of measuring, analyzing, and interpreting marketing data to make informed decisions.
• Marketing Automation: The process of using software and technology to automate repetitive marketing tasks, such as email campaigns and lead generation.
• Marketing Budget: The financial allocation for a company’s marketing efforts, including expenses such as advertising, promotions, and research.
• Marketing Management: The process of planning, executing and controlling the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives.
• Marketing Mix: The set of controllable variables that a company uses to influence the demand for its products or services, often referred to as the 4 P’s (product, price, place, promotion).
• Marketing Plan: A written document that outlines a company’s overall marketing strategy and tactics for a specified period.
• Mergers and Acquisitions: The process of combining two or more companies into a single entity, or acquiring one company by another.
• Mobile Marketing: The process of using mobile devices and channels to promote products or services.
• Motivation: The process of inspiring and encouraging individuals to take action towards achieving goals.
• Negotiation: The process of discussing and reaching an agreement with others, usually to resolve a dispute or make a deal.
• Offshoring: The process of relocating business functions or operations to a foreign country to take advantage of lower labor costs or other benefits.
• Operations management: The process of designing, operating, and controlling the systems that produce and deliver goods and services.
• Organizational Behaviour: The study of how people act within an organization, including how they interact with one another and with the organization as a whole.
• Organizational Change: The process of altering an organization’s structure, culture, or processes to improve performance and achieve strategic goals.
• Organizational Culture: The shared values, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and social practices of an organization.
• Organizational Design: The process of creating and implementing a structure and culture that aligns with an organization’s goals and strategy.
• Organizational Development Consulting: The process of providing expert advice and support to organizations to help them improve their performance and achieve their goals.
• Organizational Development Research: The process of gathering and analyzing data to understand and improve organizational performance.
• Organizational Development Training: The process of providing employees with the knowledge and skills they need to improve their performance and contribute to the organization’s success.
• Organizational Development: The process of improving the effectiveness of an organization by analyzing, designing, implementing and evaluating interventions in the organization’s “processes, culture, and structure.”
• Organizational Learning: The process of acquiring, creating, and sharing knowledge within an organization to improve performance.
• Organizational Psychology: The application of psychological principles and methods to understand and improve the functioning of organizations.
• Organizational Structure: The way in which an organization’s components are arranged, including the levels of hierarchy, the roles and responsibilities of each position, and the lines of communication.
• Outbound Marketing: The process of reaching out to customers through advertising, sales calls, and other forms of direct promotion.
• Outsourcing: The process of transferring the management and performance of certain business functions to a third-party provider.
• Performance management: The process of measuring and evaluating the performance of individuals and teams to ensure that they are meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Personal Selling: The process of communicating with potential customers to persuade them to buy a product or service.
• Predictive Analytics: The process of using historical data and statistical models to predict future trends and outcomes.
• Prescriptive Analytics: The process of using data, modeling, and optimization techniques to recommend actions or decisions to achieve specific goals.
• Pricing Strategy: The process of determining the optimal price for a product or service based on factors such as cost, competition, and customer demand.
• Problem-Solving: The process of identifying and resolving issues or obstacles that prevent the achievement of goals.
• Process Management: The process of identifying, designing, executing, monitoring, and improving business processes to achieve specific goals and objectives.
• Product Management: The process of overseeing the development, launch, and ongoing marketing of a product or service.
• Project management: The process of planning, executing, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Promotion Strategy: The process of using advertising, sales promotions, public relations, and other tactics to increase demand for a product or service.
• Public Relations: The process of managing the communication between an organization and its publics, including the media, customers, employees, and the general public.
• Quality Management: The process of ensuring that products and services meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Resource management: The process of acquiring, allocating, and managing resources (such as people, materials, and equipment) to achieve specific goals and objectives.
• Restructuring: The process of reorganizing the operations, debt, ownership or other aspects of a company to improve its performance and financial stability.
• Risk management: The process of identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks and developing plans to mitigate or avoid them.
• Service Marketing: The process of creating, promoting, delivering and managing a service to meet the needs of customers.
• Six Sigma: A process improvement methodology that aims to reduce the number of defects in a process to 3.4 per million opportunities.
• Social Entrepreneurship: The process of creating and managing a business that addresses a social or environmental problem and generates positive impact while being financially sustainable.
• Strategic management: The process of making decisions and taking actions that will shape the long-term direction of an organization.
• Succession Planning: The process of identifying and developing internal candidates to fill critical leadership or key positions in an organization.
• Supply Chain Management: The process of managing the flow of goods, services, and information from suppliers to customers.
• Supply Chain Optimization: The process of using mathematical models and algorithms to optimize the flow of goods, services, and information in a supply chain.
• Sustainability Management: The process of managing an organization in an economically, socially, and environmentally responsible way to ensure long-term viability.
• Sustainable Business: The process of creating and managing a business that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
• Talent Management: The process of identifying, developing, and retaining key employees in an organization to support its long-term success.
• Teamwork: The process of working together cooperatively to achieve a common goal.
• Time management: The process of organizing and planning the use of time to accomplish specific tasks, goals, and objectives.
• Total Quality Management (TQM): A management approach that aims to optimize the quality of an organization’s products, services and processes by engaging all employees in a continuous improvement process.
• Trade Marketing: The process of creating and executing marketing activities that are targeted at trade customers, such as retailers or distributors.
• Workforce Planning: The process of forecasting future workforce needs, and developing strategies to meet those needs through recruitment, retention, and development of staff.