Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I had a recent experience at my house with my furnace. I was facing a crazy cold snap and a ...

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, ...

When you start a small business, you must determine your purpose. One way to do this is to explain why you will be good at serving your customers. Once you have this purpose firmly in mind, you can ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Regardless of industry, efficiency is a major business goal. Efficiency is performing in the ...

Research and development (R&D) productivity has long been a topic of concern amongst industry analysts (Drug Inf. J. 34, 1169–1194; 2000). In general, R&D productivity can be thought of as comprising ...

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 ...

Balancing efficiency and effectiveness is a cornerstone to successful marketing and no easy feat. Here we explore how to get it done. In marketing, efficiency may involve increasing conversion rates ...

Boost productivity with the best productivity tools and work efficiency apps that streamline tasks, enhance collaboration, ...

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), ...