There are terms like “operations”, “management”, and “logistics” that might stand in for “optimizing processes” (depending on what processes you are talking about).
It might also be helpful to talk about an example of some useful project you or someone else has done right away, so that people don’t get the wrong idea. (To give a really trivial toy example, “I recently cut down on the time I spend surfing the web by taking all the blogs I follow and putting them on RSS — I like noticing options like that, where I can improve the way I do something.”)
There are terms like “operations”, “management”, and “logistics” that might stand in for “optimizing processes” (depending on what processes you are talking about).
It might also be helpful to talk about an example of some useful project you or someone else has done right away, so that people don’t get the wrong idea. (To give a really trivial toy example, “I recently cut down on the time I spend surfing the web by taking all the blogs I follow and putting them on RSS — I like noticing options like that, where I can improve the way I do something.”)
It sounds like you’re saying that you add examples and avoid using big, vague words where possible? Is that correct? :-)
Yes, I recommend both of those things for… well, almost all communication, and this isn’t an exception.