On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
As a pointed example of the latter, Boeing depended on suppliers to update work-in-progress on its newly introduced Exostar system, another ostensible efficiency tool.
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Within Sony's headquarters and support operations, certain functions have been integrated and organizational structures have been streamlined, while the Company has conducted a thorough review of work content and work-flow process to ensure greater operational efficiency across these operations.
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They can -- he can work to do the things that I just talked about, in terms of fuel-efficiency standards or clean energy investments.
With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.
That is why we are funding the highways maintenance efficiency programme which helps councils work together to deliver a first-class service to their residents, at the same time as saving money.
Consider this analogy: a business process is like a carefully designed work-residential planned community, where all the streets are designed to maximize efficiency and flow, and each resident knows exactly where they work, the route to get there and back, and what to do at what point.
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Gift-in-kind charities don't have to work too hard to deliver high efficiency numbers.
Gelb is notorious among colleagues for his work habits, which involve pre-dawn e-mail sessions and a ruthless efficiency with time.
Using smarter technologies, more brains and less money to wring more work from less delivered energy--what energy experts call "end-use efficiency"--is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest, most diverse, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services.
"This research shows that there's still more work to be done with consumer advice, product innovation and take up of energy-efficiency labelling, " he said.
But he left government work because he always wanted to start a company and he saw energy--particularly energy efficiency--as an area likely to grow.
But what we can do -- and what we are doing -- is to work together to make unprecedented investments in clean energy, to increase energy efficiency, and to meet the commitments we made at Copenhagen and Cancun.
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The 2014-2018 fuel efficiency standards for trucks are designed to account for the different kind of work done by different kinds of trucks.
These are private, Medicare-funded groups that work with medical providers and seniors in each state to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
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The firm will remain as a hierarchical bureaucracy, with the managers acting as controllers of individuals, work being coordinated by plans, rules and reports, the key value being efficiency and communications top-down.
It bids for jobs on a per-transaction basis and then uses computers and software to increase efficiency and its profit on the work.
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.
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