Strategic management lays out goals and objectives for pursuing a company's mission. Your small business, from Day One, has had you as the strategic manager. If you have added managers since then, ...

Managing any contact center operation today means walking three tightropes pitting efficiency (which is all too easy to calculate) against effectiveness (harder to measure and repair). This applies to ...

A few months ago, I started the process of moving all my journalling to a digital device with the goal of being more efficient. It was during the transition that I realized that I had overlooked the ...

Explore production efficiency, its link to the PPF, and measurement methods to optimize manufacturing resources and minimize costs.

In "Efficiency v effectiveness" last week, Dave Trott described the problem of focusing on efficiency first in the creative industry. In short, when trying to reduce costs, one can also compromise the ...

As a high-performance sales professional for years, I was always in search of more and more efficiency. As I became a sales manager, then entrepreneur and CEO, the stakes grew even higher, so to me, ...

Time may seem scarcer than ever, but fortunately technological advancements have presented auditors with many tools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of audits. One such tool is data ...

Research and development (R&D) productivity has long been a topic of concern amongst industry analysts (Drug Inf. J. 34, 1169–1194; 2000). In general, R&D productivity can be thought of as comprising ...

We asked, 'Which behaviour has the most negative impact on the efficiency of arbitration proceedings?' Respondents could choose one out of five options: 'Counsel focusing on adversarial rather than ...