Strategic management lays out goals and objectives for pursuing a company's mission. Your small business, from Day One, has had you as the strategic manager. If you have added managers since then, ...

Regardless of industry, efficiency is a major business goal. Efficiency is performing in the best possible way with minimal waste of time, effort and resources. Leaders aim to get the most out of what ...

Companies often talk about employee effectiveness and efficiency when brainstorming ways to improve business. While they sound similar, effectiveness means something entirely different than efficiency ...

A few months ago, I started the process of moving all my journalling to a digital device with the goal of being more efficient. It was during the transition that I realized that I had overlooked the ...

The use of 3e’s as an approach to evaluation in general is not new. Effectiveness, efficiency and equity have been used in a range of settings, including general programme evaluation (Reinke, 1994), ...

As a high-performance sales professional for years, I was always in search of more and more efficiency. As I became a sales manager, then entrepreneur and CEO, the stakes grew even higher, so to me, ...

In "Efficiency v effectiveness" last week, Dave Trott described the problem of focusing on efficiency first in the creative industry. In short, when trying to reduce costs, one can also compromise the ...

Making efforts to achieve quantified targets is the zeitgeist of today's world. Our obsession with metrics, targets and standardised indicators creates an illusion of progress. The same mentality has ...