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Strategic Planning Abbreviations

ABC - Activity Based Costing

AICPA - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

AMO - A Miracle Occurs (represents gap between plan and reality)

B2B - Business to Business

B2C - Business to Consumer

BI - Business Intelligence

BPM - Business Process Management

BPO - Business Process Outsourcing

BU - Business Unit

CC - Cost Center

CEM - Customer Experience Management (real-time solutions)

CFO - Chief Financial Officer

CI - Competitive Intelligence

CLO - Chief Learning Officer

CMO - Chief Marketing Officer

CMS - Content Management System

CPO - Chief Planning Officer

CRM - Customer Relationship Management (solutions)

CSF - Critical Success Factor

CTQ - Critical To Quality

DCF - Discounted Cash Flow

DHS - Department of Homeland Security

DMADV - Define, Measure Analyze, Design, Verify (methodology)

DMAIC - Define, Measure Analyze, Improve, and Control (methodology)

DOJ - Department of Justice

DR - Discount Rate

DSDM - Dynamic System Development Method

DSS - Decision Support System

EBP - Enterprise Business Planning

EDI - Electronic Data Interchange

EEM - Employee Experience Management (real-time solutions)

EIS - Executive Information System

ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning

ESS - Executive Support System

EVA - Economic Value Added

FASB - Financial Accounting Standards Board

FSS - Fruit Salad Syndrome

GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAAS - Generally Accepted Auditing Standards

HRO - Human Resources Outsourcing

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (US)

IROR - Internal Rate of Return

IS - Information Systems

IT - Information Technology

JIT - Just in Time (Inventory Management)

JV - Joint Venture

M&A - Mergers and Acquisitions

MBWA - Management By Walking Around 

MIS - Management Information System

MoSCoW - Must haves; Should haves;  Could haves; Won't haves

MVA - Market Value Added

NIRI - The National Investor Relations Institute

NPV - Net Present Value

OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OLAP - On-Line Analytical Processing

P&L - Profit and Loss (Statement)

PC - Personal Computer

PM - Project Management; (2) Program Management

PM - Project Management Maturity Model (Harold Kerzner)

PMI - Project Management Institute

PMP - Project Management Professional

PV - Present Value

QA - Quality Assurance

R&D - Research and Development

RAM - Responsibility Assignment Matrices; (2) Random Access Memory

RBC - Risk- Based Capital

RFP - Request For Proposal

ROA - Return on Assets

ROE - Return on Equity

ROI - Return on Investment

RVP - Relative Value / Price

SBO    - Strategic Business Objectives

SBU    - Strategic Business Unit

SCIP - Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals

SHU   - Strategic Horizontal Unit  (Cost Center)

SFA - Sales Force Automation

SOW - Statement Of Work

SPC - Statistical Process Control

SSP - Structured Strategic Planning

SRI - Strategically Relevant Industry

SV - Shareholder Value

TCO - Total Cost of Ownership

TQM - Total Quality Management

VP - Virtual Planning

WBS - Work Breakdown Structure

WLAN - Wi-Fi wireless LAN

 

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