"A new crop of [business] buzzwords usually sprouts every three to five years," says the paper, as it offers up some of the latest, freshest produce.

• delayering: has nothing to do with cake. It's the up-to-date euphemism for 'firing', f/k/a rightsizing or downsizing.
• knowledge acquisition: hiring. replaces "war for talent", which is out of date because companies no longer need to fight to find job applicants. Quite the reverse.
• skills development: corollary to knowledge acquisition: putting new skills into existing employees
• unsiloing: cooperation across departments and functions, such as sharing resources, cross-selling, etc.
• execution: older term now back in vogue, replacing previous emphasis on 'strategy'
• volume-sensitive business: one with high fixed costs
• niche strategy: small-time player

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delayering: has nothing to do with cake. It's the up-to-date euphemism for 'firing', f/k/a rightsizing or downsizing

Damn - I could swear it had to do with removing one's coat.

How in the world did someone come up with unsiloing? The only thing I can figure is that a silo is used for storing (usually grain), so siloing is used as a verb meaning storing (or hoarding), and unsiloing is not storing, or sharing.

Tinman