But after successive efficiency reviews many public managers may doubt if there is much back office fat left to trim – following Sir Peter Gershon's review in 2004, last year's Operational Efficiency Programme and Sir Philip Green's report on efficiency in Whitehall, published last week.
In transportation, "we could double fuel economy for light-duty vehicles by 2035 without changing the size or acceleration of vehicles," said Lester B. Lave, an economics and engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the chairman of a 2010 report on efficiency potential from the National Academy of Sciences.
The conference considered immediate, medium- and long-term perspectives, and reported on efficiencies that could be achieved.
Initial reports on efficiencies and pros and cons of different statistical approaches for genomic selection have been conducted largely on simulated data sets (e.g. [ 10, 13, 15, 18, 41- 44]) and to a lesser extent in real data (e.g. [ 19, 35, 45, 46].
There are few reports on efficiency, validity and the impact of item non-response, from developing countries.
By wisely utilizing combinations of exciton-managed orange-phosphorescence/sky blue-fluorescence, we report on high-efficiency white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) with high color-stability together with reduced efficiency roll-off.
We report on accuracy, efficiency and benefits.
Today, a report on manufacturing efficiency in North American auto plants last year showed encouraging results for American automakers.
Every so often, a bald-headed businessman writes a report on the efficiency of the railways and everyone panics.
A 2003 European Central Bank report on the efficiency of the public sector in 23 countries ranked France 20th.
Clearly something has to change and the National Audit Office's latest report on the efficiency of central government property also underscores this need.
