Budget constraints: A Resource Restriction Agreement caps spending on racing operations for all Formula One teams, making efficiency and operational improvements imperative.

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For IT teams, this spells efficiency.

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By efficiency, I mean have the best teams match-up in the most meaningful games.

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Athletic departments have little patience for poor cost efficiency, which helps explain why nine of the ten teams on our list have brought in new head football coaches within the last three years.

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Another team from a public high school in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia successfully created a low carbon emissions and ultra-high efficiency alternative fuel vehicle which competed against collegiate and corporate teams.

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The cars compete for a Green Challenge award, which recognizes the race teams with the best overall performance, the highest level of fuel efficiency, and the lowest carbon emissions.

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That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.

ECONOMIST: Measuring productivity

Overall this is a great cross functional success with the teams of software development, sustainability organization and facility management in energy savings and energy efficiency initiations.

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