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Top 10 buzzwords of the past 10 years



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4. Paradigm shift
Though it was coined as early as 1962 by a scientist, paradigm shift, an essential shift from one way of thinking to another, entered the business world during the tech boom because many retail-based dot-coms depended on customers to make one. It's not that a site such as Amazon.com was selling anything new; it's just that it did it in a different way. The paradigm shift required shoppers to go online rather than to a traditional store. While a lot of customers went along with the concept, many dot-coms never made the paradigm shift from focusing on spending money to actually making it.

 

 
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