But experts on government efficiency applauded the initiative, saying it was overdue, and some analysts said it made sense to combine agencies involved in business development, foreign investment and trade promotion into a single department with the mandate to promote American exports.
The vision was then presented to a group of stakeholders, including representatives from policy-making, business and civil society as well as other experts on resource efficiency, who discussed the elements and through a participatory workshop process agreed on the final composition of the vision.
This behaviour is related to the different interpretations of relative technical efficiency by experts, on one hand, and DEA models, on the other.
Toyota has an advantage over its Detroit rivals in its streamlined processes for engineering and building its cars, said James P. Womack, an author and expert on company efficiency.
Dr Roger Dargaville, an expert on energy efficiency and energy systems from the University of Melbourne, said there was an oversupply of electricity nationally.
Many utilities, said Amory B. Lovins, an expert on energy efficiency, are "unexpectedly finding patterns of declining demand in previously robust sectors that they think may represent a basic change in previous trends".
But Ulf Sieberg, an expert on energy efficiency and building renovation with the German environmental organization NABU, said only about 3 percent of all buildings in Berlin were subject to those laws.
Former Houston, Texas mayor Bill White called Romm "the nation's leading expert on energy efficiency".
I had the privilege of having as my co-author an international expert on energy efficiency and conservation, Howard Geller.
An analysis by Jeff Greenblatt, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expert on energy efficiency, projects that significant improvements of existing buildings will be necessary, but on a scale 30 times faster than the current rate of improvement.
Yet, I regularly see advice dispensed from supposed thought leaders and experts on the value of efficiency, even at the expense of effectiveness.
