What's the 'ask' here?

Among the most common differences between standard English and Bizbonics is that the barrier between nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, gerunds, etc. is completely broken down.  One may have a 'visioning' process, in which a team dialogues about the asks, in order to come to a set of learnings ... or some such crap.  It just grates on the nerves to hear this distortion of clear speech.