It accused the union of constantly resisting the introduction of new technology and more efficient working practices.
One of the biggest costs of the lack of proper governance is its drag on the efficient working of capital markets, which chokes off opportunities for entrepreneurs and companies to raise capital for legitimate business reasons.
The basement gym, while cozy, had sturdy, efficient, working equipment as opposed to the wheezing 70s Nautilus machines some hotels fob off on travelers wishing to stay in shape on the road.
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However, BCG also found that the project teams improved their communications and developed more innovative and efficient ways of working with each other.
Doctors and nurses can and do find more efficient ways of working, lengths of stay are decreasing, inpatients become day cases, day cases become outpatients and outpatients get treated in community community settings, each step leads to a reduction in resources required.
Companies large and small are moving to these cloud-based services to save costs and to make working remotely more efficient.
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While this will merely assist in stretching phone life, the company says it is working on more efficient models which could one day be fitted as standard to mobiles and perhaps virtually eliminate dependence on mains electricity.
When he isn't tinkering around with McLaren F1 supercars and Batmobiles, Gordon Murray is working on fuel-efficient -- or even fuel-independent -- city cars.
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Beyond more-efficient solar cells, they're working to slash the cost of components elsewhere in the solar-module system.
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Iraqis are working to build institutions that are efficient and independent and transparent.
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Verkooijen admitted the first floors were not very efficient, and said the designers were already working on new models to improve the amount of energy captured.
Instead, the company is working on making its existing plants more efficient.
Air-traffic controllers have always reordered planes in the departure queue manually, but researchers are working on algorithms that would be more efficient.
Timothy Cadogan, vice president of search at Yahoo, figures there are at least 150 companies working as search engine marketers, including Efficient Frontier, Performics, Avenue A and Iprospect.
In turn, the industry produces a product that isn't as efficient or cheap as it might be if we focused less on working the political system and more on research and development.
While, as we know, a lot of the productivity growth of the 1990s was actually the computer industry itself becoming more efficient at its own manufacturing, the current boom is from people working out what to actually do with the bright shiny boxes.
Other projects financed by the VC fund: In BorgWarner's engine division engineers are working on strategies to optimize airflow in diesel engines for more efficient combustion.
But Lam believes that the Samsung platform is more power efficient when it uses proprietary software like eye detection, which is constantly working in the background.
As well as helping big companies become more focused and efficient, McKinsey has ample experience in public-private partnerships, and in working with social innovators in the non-profit sector (who are likely to be a crucial source of bright ideas for the new administration).
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These people are working on projects that will merge duplicate systems or otherwise make us more efficient.
In other green transportation news, a team from MIT is working on developing ionic wind thrusters that would serve as an energy-efficient, low-emission alternative to jet engines.
U.S. wireless carriers are working on a new way to deliver voice calls to make their networks more efficient.
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Fourteen years ago, then-Senator Obama was making an argument for a more efficient, more effective government, specifically citing city government agencies that he did not think were working effectively.
Fiat is prepared to transfer its cutting-edge technology to Chrysler and, after working closely with my team, has committed to build -- building new fuel-efficient cars and engines right here in the United States.
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We have made tremendous strides in working together with our state partners to cut project timelines and make permitting for critical infrastructure project more efficient and timely.
But they had been working independently on rear-wheel-drive systems that would make pickups and suvs more fuel-efficient without sacrificing consumer demands for hauling big loads and towing trailers.
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He is part of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which is working to replace the traditional cook stoves in developing nations all over the world with cleaner, more efficient stoves.
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Researchers are working on a new generation of white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that would be much more efficient than existing light bulbs.
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