Since a green paper was published in 2008, more than 1, 300 homes have been insulated through the Energy Efficiency Service.
Training and development for our frontline workers is vital to achieving efficiency and service-quality gains.
What we are talking about here is customer service efficiency, how much value your service adds relative to the price you charge.
Customer service efficiency is another reason Sprint likes the iPhone, despite its brutal economics.
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That focus on efficiency and improved service has made for an interesting business proposition.
Digital Service Efficiency (DSC) is a metric that the auction giant hopes to popularize in the industry.
The bank said it was undertaking a major productivity programme in order to improve its efficiency and customer service.
And let me be clear: I will only use this authority for reforms that result in more efficiency, better service and a leaner government.
But many state and local governments and some federal agencies have been able to work around these constraints and have improved efficiency and raised service quality.
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.
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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"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.
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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People start to become demoralized and dysfunctional, efficiency plummets, client service and sales suffer and convoluted mistakes are made, up to and including illegal behavior such as fraud and larceny.
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 a result, the workflow has gone from sometimes waiting days to retrieve records that were archived off site, to accessing the same files in two or three seconds -- saving time, creating efficiency and improving customer service, McNeil said.
For now, the cost burden of reshoring falls upon the private sector, with executives needing to compare upfront costs with operational efficiency, profitability and customer service yield.
The coalition is openly discussing the need for big efficiency savings in the health service and Mr Cameron has pledged to seek powers back from Brussels if the euro-zone crisis reorders the EU's architecture.
Unions have warned that proposals for efficiency savings have left the health service in crisis.
In health, he has pushed through the internal-market reforms within the National Health Service, increasing the efficiency of services.
Ultimately, the service hopes to improve efficiency and not only reduce cost, but accurately track it - as well as hopefully save lives.
The question is, can you actually achieve better integration, better streamlining, better efficiency, and ultimately better consumer service and better payoff for taxpayers.
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Firms must cut costs, beef up balance sheets, and boost efficiency, quality, innovation and customer service.
Concluding, how do these numbers translate into actual telco profit markup on text service, to evaluate market efficiency?
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As an individual, when I look to choose my flight I am looking for the whole package: efficiency, value, convenience, and 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.
Even though both the companies missed market expectations in their latest quarterly results, Home Depot seems to have handled the difficult housing market and slow demand recovery better with successful cost-cutting and efficiency initiatives, store remodels, improved service and better pricing strategies.
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It's not as if the National Weather Service has been a model of efficiency.
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