For large companies, increased U.S. supplier capabilities could lower costs, raise performance, and simplify logistics.
Part of the newfound interest in these notebooks, Gartner said, will come as more of these devices include Intel's new processors, called Bay Trail and Haswell, which raise performance and battery life.
In recent months, however, Mr. Klein and Michele Cahill, his senior counsel for educational policy, have talked about the need to use many different models, including charter schools, to raise performance and accountability and to provide city students and their parents with more choices.
"Poland has seen forward movement, raising performance and lowering the variability in performance between schools," Schleicher, the OECD researcher, said.
It has also raised performance standards and improved the firm's approach to identifying and promoting high-potential talent by, for example, assessing leaders on their efforts in this regard.
To manage the talent overhaul, the company has revised its performance metrics, raised performance expectations, and redesigned compensation plans.
Other contract changes, including eliminating cost-of-living raises, performance bonuses and a paid holiday, along with changes in work rules and shorter break times, are expected to save Ford $500 million a year, according to Ford officials.
During his 11-year tenure, he was credited with raising performance standards, and recently has been mentioned as a contender for the directorship of the New York Philharmonic.
"You would expect that systems with greater choice would come out better because you expect competition to raise performance of the high performers and lower performers, and put out of the market schools and systems that do not succeed.
It will also be necessary to revise management-compensation plans substantially and to raise performance criteria for CEOs and board members alike so that only active, engaged directors remain.
