This designation has facilitated the development of state-of-the-art sewerage treatment plants as well as a special project to streamline the approval process for industrial parks.
Gore did, however, make a major exception to this rule by taking on a project to streamline the federal government — a task that Kerry told me made Gore less available to lobby his old friends in the Senate.
A project to streamline Peterborough City Council's procurement costs, which saved the council £6m, has won a prestigious business award.
These don't have to be revolutionary ideas, but try to come up with some new projects, ways to streamline your work or make the business more efficient.
Sources close to the DWP's Universal Credit project, which seeks to streamline and automate benefit payments and tax credits for 12 million people, indicate that upwards of £270m has already been spent in government contracts with IBM, Hewlett Packard and BT.
The ambitious universal credit project, which aims to streamline existing working-age benefits into a single monthly payment, is six years behind schedule, and critics say Treasury cuts have undermined its original vision of making work – and working extra hours – more attractive than relying on state benefits.
openBIS (Open Biological Information System), developed at ETH Zürich in the SyBIT project, is designed to streamline raw data transfer from instruments into analysis workflows.
One example of these short-term innovations projects is a device-associated HAI denominator data simplification project to identify streamlined sampling methods that can replace daily collection of patient- and device-day data (25, 26 ).
Walter Hellerstein, a University of Georgia tax law professor who is an expert on sales taxes, said one of the project's goals was to "streamline and harmonize" so there was no longer any justification to exempt a merchant in one state from collecting taxes on a sale to someone in another state.
However, he said, the mayor created the Department of Design and Construction, which oversees projects for 21 agencies, to streamline procedures.
It does this through a simple workflow that enables organizations to streamline projects, whether it be in extracting datasets, building graphical views, or just managing data publishing, all while being able to keep tabs on which pieces of the dataset are getting the most use.
