"I am looking forward to improvements that are really proven," he says, "where if I do a procedure I can see a quantitative result.
Says power Digger and active Reddit user Victor Barrera, "I think Reddit's growth can be atrributed to a couple main factors: Digg's decline and a multitude of improvements and upgrades that really played into the scalability of their platform".
The only improvement that would really be welcomed by business people is something that stopped them arriving feeling like a piece of chewed string.
Improvements in student-staff ratios and student satisfaction are significant contributory factors, but it is the improvement in value-added scores that really stands out.
What advice do you offer for creating strategic plans that really contribute to performance improvement?
Business process reengineering is the only process improvement approach that's really had this focus in any substantial way, but it was flawed in other respects and isn't a go-it-alone method of choice either.
Turning more public hospitals over to non-profit bodies, with freedom to hire and fire and link pay to performance, would increase the system's efficiency, he adds.Others think that really big improvements would require a new relationship with private providers, which far from dying off as the authors of the constitution imagined have flourished since the creation of SUS.
I think her improvement mentally, in dealing with that, really helped with her play on the court too". Anderson, a 6-foot-2 sophomore center, was the second half of the size quotient that helped the Sea Kings so much this year.
Asked recently about mega-mergers, David Brennan, boss of Britain's AstraZeneca, scoffed that if big efficiency improvements were really possible, good managers would do them anyway, rather than pursuing mergers.What about economies of scale in research?
