Fun with Finance
Merrymaking with Marketing
Tricks of Technology
Oodles of Operations
Acronym Bonanza
100

The time period in May when the budget is reviewed

What is reforecast one, or RF1?
100

This is an intentional requests for contact from a qualified buyer.

What is a Marketing Qualified Lead?

100

This focuses on the triple constraint of Quality, Cost and Time.

What is Portfolio Management?

100

Defines the business need in terms that can be measured and captured in sprints and Jira story backlogs.

What is a Service Level Agreement or SLA?

100

Csat

What is Customer Satisfaction?

200

The time period between the 1st through the 6th monthly 

What is Month-End?

200

This business marketing strategy concentrates resources on a set of target accounts within a market

What is Account Based Marketing?

200

The portfolio management tool used by ProQuest whose name is a truncation of Gorjira, the Japanese word for Godzilla.

What is JIRA?

200

This tool allows the ProQuest content team to make publisher content "ours"

What is the Electronic Content Management System?

200

EBITDAC

What is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization and Capitalization 

300

These two types of sales are non-reoccurring. 

What is PAL and One Time?

300

This shape helps visualize what stage a client is at within the ProQuest Marketing and Sales Lifecycle.

What is the Sales Funnel?

300
Something a team can commit to finish within a one or two-week sprint. 

What is a Story?

300

This function makes content searchable

What is Digitization?

300

PAL

Perpetual Access License 

400

This is capitalized if it results in a created asset

What is Work Time?

400

This leading indicator of what is going to drive customer interaction helps Marketing get new leads for sales.

What is Engagements?

400

This Agile framework requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work where work items are visually represented on a board allowing team members to see the state of every piece fo work at any time.

What is Agile Kanban?

400
Customer Needs are tracked via this metric 

What are Cases?

400

RF2

Reforecast 2

500

Earnings before this assess a company's performance without having to factor in financing decisions, accounting decisions or tax environments.

What is Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization? 
500

This tracked metric monitors emails, open rates, clicks, downloads, visits etc. from a marketing campaign to determine its relative efficacy 

What is Activity?

500

Calculated at the end of the Sprint, this metric is found by totaling the Points for fully completed User Stories.

What is Velocity?

500

The number of global monthly public and private webinar attendees from the TCP Team

What is 5,000?

500

ABM

Account Based Marketing