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Strategy & Positioning

• ICP — Ideal Customer Profile: the type of company or buyer you serve best (e.g., “mid-market industrials in EU”).
• GTM — Go-to-Market: how you win customers (channels, funnel, coverage).
• CTA — Call to Action: the concrete next step you ask for (e.g., “Book a 30-min fit call”).
• NPS — Net Promoter Score: loyalty metric from −100 to +100 based on “recommend?” survey.

Problem-Solving & Prioritization

• MECE — Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive: structure issues so items don’t overlap and cover the whole problem.
• ICE — Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort: quick way to rank initiatives by payoff versus difficulty.
• RICE — Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort: prioritization adding “how many affected” (Reach).
• H1 / H2 / H3 — Hypotheses 1/2/3: statements you test to explain the outcome gap.
• A/B — A/B Test: run version A vs B to see which performs better, statistically.

Finance & Economics

• ROI — Return on Investment: (benefit − cost) ÷ cost; we also use “12-month ROI”.
• EV — Expected Value: price or fee × win probability (used in proposal economics).
• EBIT — Earnings Before Interest & Taxes: operating profit measure; often a target KPI.
• TCO — Total Cost of Ownership: full cost to build or buy (setup + run + maintenance).
• KPI — Key Performance Indicator: the success metric you’re aiming to move (e.g., “gross margin +3 pts”).

AI, Data & Platforms

• MLOps — Machine-Learning Operations: deploy, monitor, retrain and govern models safely.
• CI/CD — Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery: automated build, test and deploy pipeline.
• PII — Personally Identifiable Information: data that can identify a person; needs special handling.
• RBAC — Role-Based Access Control: users only see data and tools allowed by their role.
• Model Registry — System of record for model versions and approvals.
• Drift — Model/data performance shift over time; requires monitoring and retraining.
• GenAI — Generative AI: systems that create text, images, code, etc., from prompts.

Sales, Pipeline & Delivery

• CRM — Customer Relationship Management: system to track contacts, deals and activities.
• Win Rate — % of qualified opportunities you close (not an acronym, but core metric).
• PMO — Project Management Office: function that governs large projects and portfolios.

Planning & Cadence

• Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 — Calendar or fiscal quarters (3-month blocks).
• FY — Fiscal Year: your accounting year (e.g., FY2026).
• v1 — Version 1: first working release you ship to users (“prove value fast”).
• Sprint — Fixed timebox (often 1–2 weeks) to build and ship increments.

Commercial Packaging & Offers

• Pilot — Small, time-boxed engagement to prove value and de-risk a larger rollout.
• Tiered Offer — Three options (e.g., Pilot / Core / Flagship) to match scope and price to value.
• Risk Reversal — Mechanism that reduces buyer risk (e.g., milestone-based fees or opt-out gates).

Governance & Compliance

• SLA — Service-Level Agreement: commitments on availability, quality or timeliness.
• Audit Trail — Record of who changed what and when (models, data, access).
• Guardrails — Technical and policy limits that keep AI use safe and compliant.

Geopolitics — Short-Forms Glossary

Core ideas

• IR — International Relations: how states and actors interact.
• Great-Power Competition (GPC) — Rivalry among top states for influence.
• Realpolitik — Power-first, pragmatic statecraft over ideals.
• Balance of Power (BoP) — States align to prevent any one from dominating.
• Multipolarity — Several major powers (vs. uni- or bi-polar orders).
• Rules-Based Order (RBO) — Norms/institutions guiding state behavior.
• Spheres of Influence — Regions where a power seeks primacy.

Power & influence

• Hard Power — Military/economic coercion.
• Soft Power — Attractiveness of culture, values, policy.
• Sharp Power — Manipulative influence (disinfo, interference).
• Smart Power — Blending hard and soft tools.
• Statecraft — Full toolkit of national power (DIME: Diplomatic, Informational, Military, Economic).

Alignment & strategy

• Alliance — Formal defense pact (e.g., NATO).
• Coalition — Ad-hoc group for an issue/operation.
• Bandwagoning — Aligning with the strong to gain favor.
• Balancing — Aligning against a stronger rival.
• Hedging — Keeping ties with competing blocs to reduce risk.
• Non-Alignment — Avoiding formal blocs; strategic autonomy.
• Thucydides Trap — Rising vs ruling power conflict risk.

Economic statecraft

• Sanctions — Restrictions to coerce (trade, finance, travel).
• Secondary Sanctions — Penalties on third parties dealing with a target.
• Export Controls — Limits on tech/goods transfers.
• Embargo — Broad trade ban with a country.
• SWIFT Cut-off — Removing banks from global messaging rails.
• Capital Controls — Limits on money flows across borders.
• Sovereign Debt Restructuring — Renegotiating a state’s debt burden.
• De-risking / Decoupling — Reducing exposure to a rival’s economy.
• Friend-shoring / Near-shoring — Moving supply chains to allies/nearby.

Trade & institutions

• WTO — World Trade Organization (rules, dispute settlement).
• MFN — Most-Favored-Nation tariff status.
• FTA — Free Trade Agreement (bilateral or regional).
• Anti-Dumping — Duties against below-cost imports.
• ITAR/EAR — US export control regimes for arms/dual-use tech.
• Extraterritoriality — Laws applied beyond national borders.

Energy & resources

• OPEC+ — Oil producers’ coordination group.
• Petrodollars — Oil trade revenues held in USD assets.
• Energy Security — Reliable, affordable, sustainable supply.
• Critical Minerals — Lithium, cobalt, REEs, etc., vital for tech/energy.
• Strategic Reserves — Stockpiles (oil, gas, grains, minerals).
• Pipeline Politics — Influence via cross-border energy routes.

Maritime & territory

• UNCLOS — UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
• EEZ — Exclusive Economic Zone (200 nm resource rights).
• FONOPs — Freedom of Navigation Operations.
• A2/AD — Anti-Access/Area-Denial (keep adversaries at bay).
• Chokepoint — Narrow route critical to trade (e.g., Hormuz, Malacca).
• Lawfare — Using legal claims/processes as a strategic tool.

Security & conflict

• Deterrence — Preventing action by threat of costs.
• Escalation Ladder — Steps from diplomacy to full conflict.
• Hybrid Warfare — Mix of military, cyber, economic, info tools.
• Gray-Zone — Coercion below conventional war thresholds.
• Article 5 (NATO) — Collective defense clause.
• R2P — Responsibility to Protect (mass-atrocity norm).
• Counter-insurgency (COIN) — Defeating armed non-state actors.

Nuclear basics

• MAD — Mutually Assured Destruction (nuclear stalemate).
• First-Strike / Second-Strike — Initial nuclear attack vs. assured retaliation.
• Nuclear Triad — Land-based missiles, submarines, bombers.
• Non-Proliferation (NPT) — Treaty to prevent nuclear spread.

Diplomacy & mediation

• Track I / Track II — Official vs. unofficial diplomacy.
• Backchannel — Discreet negotiation route.
• Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) — Steps that reduce miscalculation.
• Demarche — Formal diplomatic protest or request.
• Summitry — Leader-level meetings to break deadlocks.

Information & cyber

• OSINT — Open-Source Intelligence.
• HUMINT/SIGINT/GEOINT — Human/Signals/Geospatial intel.
• IO / PsyOps — Information operations / psychological ops.
• Misinformation/Disinformation/Malinformation — False/intentional/true-but-weaponized info.
• Cyber Deterrence — Preventing attacks via punishment/denial signals.

Law & global bodies

• UNSC / UNGA — UN Security Council / General Assembly.
• P5 — UNSC permanent five with veto.
• ICJ / ICC — UN court for state disputes / criminal court for individuals.
• IHL — International Humanitarian Law (law of armed conflict).
• Sanctions Committee — UNSC panel monitoring compliance.

Regions & groupings (selected)

• NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organization (defense alliance).
• EU (CFSP/CSDP) — EU foreign/security policy & defense missions.
• BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (expanded in 2020s).
• SCO — Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Eurasian forum).
• QUAD — Australia, India, Japan, US (Indo-Pacific dialogue).
• AUKUS — Australia-UK-US security/tech pact.
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
• AU — African Union; continental governance.

Migration & society

• Push/Pull Factors — Drivers that force/attract migration.
• Refugee vs. IDP — Cross-border vs. internally displaced persons.
• Diaspora Politics — Home-country influence via communities abroad.
• Demographic Dividend — Growth boost from a young workforce.

Finance & currency

• Reserve Currency — Widely held currency for trade/savings.
• Swap Line — Central-bank liquidity backstop.
• SDRs — IMF Special Drawing Rights (reserve asset).
• De-dollarization — Reducing reliance on USD in trade/finance.

Risk & compliance

• Country Risk — Combined political, economic, security risk.
• Expropriation — State seizure of private assets.
• Force Majeure — Uncontrollable event clause in contracts.
• Political Risk Insurance (PRI) — Coverage for sovereign/instability risks.
• Sanctions Screening — Checking entities against restricted lists.