Newly formed media-buying agencies, unbundled from their creative counterparts, seek efficiency above all.
Thompson has cut 7,200 jobs over the past four-and-a-half years, with another 1,200 to come as he seeks efficiency savings of £1.9bn by 2013.
Private equity is business on steroids: seek efficiency and economic return, not large social goals (unless you think those are large social goals).
OECD chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan said all governments facing ballooning deficits should seek efficiency gains from public spending, particularly in education and health, and avoid "harmful" labour and capital taxes.
There is nothing wrong with this in principle, for we all seek efficiency savings in our day-to-day lives, from fitting low-wattage light bulbs to making sure the next car has better fuel consumption than the old one.
Those who seek efficiency rarely want to change their lives, only to live more productively; rather than eliminating technology, they seek to regulate their use of it through Internet-blocking programs like Freedom and Anti-Social, or through settings like Do Not Disturb.
Seeking efficiency, not performance.
Indeed, Oxford's Hamdy says that seeking efficiency advice from a racing team's tech subsidiary is largely motivated by budgetary concerns.
Seeking efficiency, neoliberal land reforms transfer land from state to private ownership, as well as tenure reforms designed to strengthen owners' rights.
Major past approaches for seeking efficiency improvement focused on the latter two of these aspects and concerned surface modification techniques and modification of lubricant properties.
