The reinforcement of the values of continuous improvement and radical transparency will be needed to achieve preeminence over efficiency.
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Where 3rd-generation Core graphics were divided into two tiers, the new generation is focused on three, two of which are built for performance over efficiency.
Nor should there be a rigid demarcation between public and private providers: distinctions are better drawn over responsiveness and efficiency than over ownership.
But when the tweakers took over the efficiency of the steam engine swiftly quadrupled.
Unfortunately, these models are fundamentally flawed in being biased to favor corrosive price promotion over brand-building advertising and to favor advertising cost efficiency over sales-growth effectiveness.
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How to achieve such a whopping increase in efficiency over so short a time?
Nanotube circuits could provide a ten-times improvement in energy efficiency over silicon.
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Since the shipping fleet takes decades to turn over, energy efficiency first movers will retain a long term advantage, even if other firms belatedly wake up to the advantages.
"The reason the broadband market is where it is, is because there has been zero capital efficiency over the past few years--everybody has tried to replicate everything, " Jenkins says.
But he started talking about energy efficiency and about refrigerators, and he pointed out that the government set modest targets a couple decades ago to start increasing efficiency over time.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes the RFID market indeed has the potential to reach those levels, though it's far from certain, given the nation's ongoing debate over speed and efficiency versus privacy concerns.
And if you want to talk about market dynamics at the pump, then look no further than the increase in demand for hybrid cars, which can increase fuel efficiency over other mid-sized cars with the help of an electric engine.
Gamers do not have to worry about excess heat while having all of their settings cranked up, keeping the laptop cool is accomplished by an efficient and quiet design using a larger, single omni-directional blower fan and dual heat pipe and heat sink system, minimizing the noise and increasing the efficiency over other designs that utilize two smaller and louder blowers.
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Pop-up stores enable cost efficiency advantages over traditional retailers, while at the same time accessing physical retailing demand.
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As efficiency washes over every discipline, the associated trends of automation and software-driven decision-making are putting people out of work.
Just as people have traditionally thought along with the manager during a game, now they think along with the general manager, worrying over payroll flexibility and efficiency.
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Similar to geologists evaluating how to produce a reservoir, the efficiency engineers use this comprehensive data to calibrate simulation models that predict the financial impact of a range of efficiency measures over the building life.
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The knowledge they carry with them over the years adds to efficiency and productivity.
The growth sector for the last quarter century has been light trucks, a category in which fuel efficiency has deteriorated over time.
Efficiency gains importance over many other criteria in these cases.
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The winding down of the Iraq war also will save money, Orszag says, adding that the administration is poring over the budget in search of efficiency gains.
Most of the companies here today were part of an agreement that we reached two years ago to raise the fuel efficiency of their cars over the next five years.
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Honda, which increased production in March while raising units sales 6.2% during the last quarter, is benefiting from a consumer trend toward fuel efficiency and environmental concerns over the past couple of years.
Macrocycles offer a number of advantages over bigger biologics, including better ligand efficiency, tissue penetration, delivery, and cost.
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It is aiming for efficiency savings of 20% over this period.
Because of this line of reasoning, managers or technical leads sometimes over-correct and attempt to maximize efficiency by staffing single-person projects to reduce the communication overhead down to zero.
Schneider needed a model that could take into account the nonobvious and sometimes random variables that affect the efficiency of thousands of drivers over weeks of time and at a high level of detail.
He said the university had cut the number of courses as part of efficiency measures and last year over-enrolled, going over its student number limit, so always planned to reduce its numbers, and that it is still recruiting.
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