The Bizness Buzzword Factory and the West Harvard School of Business present
part three of an ongoing series:
The Pain of Corporatespeak
Net/Net or Net-Net: n; The final result; the total picture; the summary. "Impact-wise, what's the net/net on this e-commerce initiative getting out of the gate?"
Sources are unclear about the origin of the phrase, but it seems to have emerged as part of the Great Redundancy which buzzword theoriticians chart from the late 1970's. May or may not have evolved from the concept of a statement of the "net positives" matched redundantly against "net negatives," thereby rendering the otherwise sufficient term "net" (signifying a calculation including profit and loss, good and bad, to and fro, all nicely factored in) a weak and wussed-out expression.
Posted by B T at July 06, 2001 11:57 PM