If that jammed and unsolvable puzzle feels like an appropriate metaphor for your life, it's hard to see how improving your personal efficiency – trying to force yet more tiles on to the grid – is going to be much help.
Indeed, many leaders are hunkering down for a long, dreary stretch of low, slow growth that will keep them focused on cost and efficiency, trying to do more with much less.
If you try to lose weight, the body perceives that it is being starved, and powerful adaptations (such as an increase in metabolic efficiency) try to bounce you back to your previous state.
Large companies striving for increased market share, scale, and efficiency try to compensate for the loss of personal relationships by using database marketing or sophisticated market research techniques to target valuable customers.
This article highlights the author's attempt to test the hypothesis upon which the study is based taking into account the connection that exists among cost, productivity, profits and efficiency and trying to prove that this can be confirmed by a simple and efficient method of calculation used by the management accounting, namely the Direct Costing method.
Prognostic frameworks based on Bayesian processors, such as particle filtering, have already demonstrated their efficiency when trying to estimate the probability of failure in nonlinear, non-Gaussian, systems with stochastic operating profiles.
It's about creating that ultimate efficiency - by trying to eliminate meetings that are unnecessary or don't move a project forward.
This exercise is more than a matter of efficiency; of trying to give residents the biggest bang for their bucks.
Although analysis of knock-in sequences larger than 3 kb has not been carried out, it is theoretically possible that TREC-IN would be able to handle larger fragments, possibly with lower efficiency in trying to complete homologous recombination.
But since becoming speaker of the lower-house Chamber of Deputies a year ago, Gianfranco Fini has often clashed with Mr Berlusconi, especially over efforts to curb the role of parliament in the name of greater efficiency (recently by trying to cut the number of lawmakers).
