The term coined by Sadagopan Singam refers to the self reinforcing ecosystem of research firms, consulting companies, analysts, and influencers that shape and often amplify corporate narratives - especially around emerging topics like GenAI, Digital Transformation,ESG and Innovation Strategy etc. It represents how these players mutually benefit from creating frameworks, maturity models, buzzwords, and “thought leadership” which companies feel compelled to adopt, often without sufficient diligence or grounding in real business impact!
The strategy industrial complex thrives on fear based messaging - if you are not on the latest trend, you are behind - creating a self sustaining demand for playbooks and advisory services!
by Sada123 July 23, 2025
Get the Strategy Industrial Complexmug. A chain of "thrift stores" which operates by having people donate their garbage for free, only to have the chain mark the items up and sell them to others for more than they are worth. The front-line workers are paid chump change on the pretext that this is a charity, somehow offering "vocational training" to people with limited job prospects elsewhere.
Unfortunately, if people donate their garbage to you and you resell it, it's still garbage... yet somehow they could sell me trousers with holes in the pockets, refuse to take them back and still fail to turn a profit on these ridiculous transactions.
Unfortunately, if people donate their garbage to you and you resell it, it's still garbage... yet somehow they could sell me trousers with holes in the pockets, refuse to take them back and still fail to turn a profit on these ridiculous transactions.
The Goodswill Industries banner is gone entirely from any point in Ontario, Canada east of Toronto or north of Newmarket after a spectacular 2016 bankruptcy in which the Toronto-based regional chapter of the chain was revealed to owe six million dollars of money it doesn't have, most of it to its own workers. One corner of Southwestern Ontario is unaffected because it belonged to a different regional chapter, centred on London, but Ontario is otherwise finally rid of Goodswill.
by bitchuck August 29, 2024
Get the Goodswill Industriesmug. by TheGeneralGenitalsPranksterian May 6, 2025
Get the <.7.9.7.6.>Dictionarys Were Printed FOr The Advertisement Of Abuse In ANy Industry<.7.9.7.6.>mug. Someone who is bipolar, breaks someone’s heart for someone else, is a complete idiot, or is a Kool Kat
by nicekittys January 3, 2019
Get the Industrial angusmug. Term describing industrial safety videos marked by their vintage CGI appeal, educational/outreach focus and gruesome depictions of the incidents they address. Famous examples that can be found on YouTube include Delta P and the entire output of the US Chemical Safety Board.
by Tonas December 30, 2022
Get the Industrial vaporgoremug. The industry that wants control of all sides of the story, therefore the media claims to tell all sides of the story and be on everyone's side.
What the media and grief/tragedy/sympathy industry won't tell people is how on their own they really are, and how the industry doesn't give a fuck about them, it's a machine that depends on them to keep running.
by The Original Agahnim September 28, 2021
Get the Grief/tragedy/sympathy industrymug. "Hi, I'm new here, where do I go?"
"Just go the **** over towards that **** of a ****** and talk to ****man. He'll tell you what you'll be ******* around with."
"I see you use a lot of industrial language."
"Just go the **** over towards that **** of a ****** and talk to ****man. He'll tell you what you'll be ******* around with."
"I see you use a lot of industrial language."
by Archmage Mad Hazza the Green August 19, 2025
Get the Industrial Languagemug.