Understanding where losses occur and how to minimize them is key to improving performance across servo systems.

Earlier today, @Sig pointed to a blog post where he resurrects one of his favorite themes: Organizational Effectiveness v Personal Efficiency. He says: Wherever you turn you'll find that Enterprise ...

Edward McCaffery, a well-recognized tax scholar at the University of Southern California, wrote a paper in which he compared government to a living organism “motivated by self-interest and instincts ...

A few months ago, I started the process of moving all my journalling to a digital device with the goal of being more efficient. It was during the transition that I realized that I had overlooked the ...

As a high-performance sales professional for years, I was always in search of more and more efficiency. As I became a sales manager, then entrepreneur and CEO, the stakes grew even higher, so to me, ...

Sustainability has become one of the most frequently used words in hospitality and healthcare—but also one of the most misunderstood. Many organizations want to “go green,” yet they struggle with ...

To measure the effectiveness and efficiency in an organization strategy, you have to examine how it links your objectives to the way you plan to achieve them and the means you plan to use. A strategy ...

Balancing efficiency and effectiveness is a cornerstone to successful marketing and no easy feat. Here we explore how to get it done. In marketing, efficiency may involve increasing conversion rates ...

Research and development (R&D) productivity has long been a topic of concern amongst industry analysts (Drug Inf. J. 34, 1169–1194; 2000). In general, R&D productivity can be thought of as comprising ...

In "Efficiency v effectiveness" last week, Dave Trott described the problem of focusing on efficiency first in the creative industry. In short, when trying to reduce costs, one can also compromise the ...

KDDI Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have announced their joint development of a high-efficiency amplifier applicable for mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) which offers ...