Tony Blair was willing to use market mechanisms to improve the efficiency of the health service, and there is evidence that they were working.
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And that pessimism is reflected by reports by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), whose job is to examine and improve the efficiency of the Police Service in England and Wales.
The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.
As part of its Digital Service Efficiency effort to reduce power consumption in its data centers, eBay slightly changed some of its software code so that the code would require less memory.
Councillor Patsy Gilroy said she was impressed with the "energy and efficiency" of the authority's roads service.
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In health, he has pushed through the internal-market reforms within the National Health Service, increasing the efficiency of services.
It's not as if the National Weather Service has been a model of efficiency.
Bringing together siloed federal programs, leveraging collaboration and promoting more coordinated funding opportunities that offer greater access, efficiency and customer service, make the best use of federal resources and funding for maximum impact.
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Each of the facilities has undergone an energy audit and a variety of energy efficiency upgrades will be completed by an energy service company (ESCO).
"It is a shame that so many millions have already been wasted on private sector consultants trying to implement a massive privatisation that was only going to line the pockets of bankers and investors and not improve civil service efficiency, " he said.
He estimates that 4G service is equivalent to four times the speed and efficiency of 3G while mobile data traffic, according to companies like Cisco, is expected to multiply by more than 20 times over the next few years.
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Boeing actually offered the Army options for scaling back features a year ago that were rebuffed, but with the budgetary walls closing in the service is now moving out on a series of efficiency measures that could unravel the whole effort.
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She is a non-executive director of the Efficiency and Reform Board at the Cabinet Office and the Government Digital Service.
And they believe that they are delivering cloud enabled IT as a service, and much greater efficiency than companies are currently getting out of their IT infrastructure.
In market theory the "selfishness" of the economic agent - in this case the GP practice - drives the efficiency of the system by forcing other economic agents to compete to provide the most efficient service.
Accuracy, discretion and sense of confidentiality, team and service-oriented, autonomy, emphasis on quality, efficiency and result.
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Lawson said the pre-arranged financing and a focus on customer service (Ygrene opened a physical storefront at 2600 Capitol Avenue to offer one-stop service for property owners and contractors) are intended to speed completion of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water efficiency projects undertaken by qualifying property owners.
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The Scottish Prison Service is ordering hundreds of flat-screen televisions for inmates in order to meet energy efficiency targets, it has emerged.
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