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Skills Inventory

DE: Skill-Inventar

Catalog of employees’ skills for staffing and gaps.

Organization & Leadership

Skip-Level 1:1

DE: Skip-Level-Gespräch

Manager’s manager meets directly with reports for feedback and context.

Organization & Leadership

Skippable Paywall

DE: Überspringbare Paywall

Paywall that can be deferred temporarily to reduce friction.

Product & Growth

SKU Proliferation

DE: SKU-Aufblähung

Excessive number of SKUs complicating sales and operations.

Product & Growth

SKU Rationalization

DE: SKU-Bereinigung

Reducing SKUs to simplify and improve focus.

Product & Growth

SLA (Service Level Agreement)

DE: Servicevereinbarung

Contractual commitment defining service expectations and remedies.

Technology & Platforms Synonyms: SLA Source ↗

SLI (Service Level Indicator)

DE: Serviceindikator

Measured metric used to evaluate SLO performance.

Technology & Platforms Synonyms: SLI

SLO (Service Level Objective)

DE: Serviceziel

Target for reliability or performance (e.g., 99.9% availability).

Technology & Platforms Synonyms: SLO Source ↗

Smoke Test

DE: Smoke-Test

Low-fidelity experiment to validate demand or usability.

Product & Growth

Soft Delete

DE: Soft Delete

Marking records as deleted without physical removal.

Technology & Platforms

SOM (Serviceable Obtainable Market)

DE: Tatsächlich gewinnbarer Markt

Realistic share of the SAM that can be captured in the near term.

Market & Strategy

Soonicorn

DE: Bald-Einhorn

Company considered close to reaching unicorn status.

Culture & Buzzwords

SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)

DE: Standardarbeitsanweisung

Documented step-by-step instructions for recurring tasks.

Organization & Leadership Synonyms: SOP Source ↗

Sovereign Wealth Fund

DE: Staatsfonds

State-owned investment fund that may invest in VC or growth.

Financing & Investors Synonyms: SWF Source ↗

SPAC

DE: SPAC

Special Purpose Acquisition Company used to take a private company public via merger.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Spam Complaint Rate

DE: Spam-Beschwerderate

Share of delivered emails marked as spam.

Metrics

Span of Control

DE: Leitungsspanne

Number of direct reports per manager; impacts agility and overhead.

Organization & Leadership

Spin-off

DE: Abspaltung

Company creates an independent entity by distributing shares of a subsidiary.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

Springing Lien

DE: Springendes Pfandrecht

Security interest that attaches upon specific triggers.

Financing & Investors

SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle)

DE: Zweckgesellschaft

Entity created to pool capital for a single investment.

Financing & Investors Source ↗

SQL (Sales Qualified Lead)

DE: Sales-qualifizierter Lead

Lead deemed sales-ready after qualification.

Product & Growth Synonyms: SQL

SQL to Win Rate

DE: SQL-zu-Win-Rate

Wins divided by Sales Qualified Leads, measuring sales effectiveness.

Metrics

SSO (Single Sign-On)

DE: Einmalanmeldung

Authentication allowing one login to access multiple systems.

Technology & Platforms Synonyms: single sign-on Source ↗

Stack Rank

DE: Stack-Ranking

Forced ranking of employees from highest to lowest.

Organization & Leadership

Staffing Plan

DE: Ressourcenplan

Plan allocating people to initiatives over time.

Organization & Leadership