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What does “going forward” mean?
In more and more podcasts and presentations I hear sentences such as this one:
That is our strategy going forward.
What meaning does going forward add to the sentence? That is, how is it ...
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Why “line of business” applications?
In software, why do we talk about line-of-business applications (sometimes abbreviated to LOB)? Why not just business applications?
So it's useful to distinguish between general software (like email ...
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“Cover off” meaning “cover”
I've noticed that some business people (generally management types) have started to use the expression "cover off" to mean "cover".
E.g.
Can you cover off agenda item 3 for me?
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Not ...
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How should “The Cloud” be capitalized?
"We are migrating our core systems into (1) The Cloud ... or (2) the cloud ... or (3) the Cloud???"
I've googled (Googled?) this and found the usual range of differing opinions but as yet no ...
