efficiencies

Gains from streamlining

Efficiencies is the plural of efficiency, referring to multiple instances of effective performance or resource optimization.

In business contexts, efficiencies often names specific cost-saving measures or streamlined processes: We found efficiencies in the supply chain.

In real estate, efficiencies (or efficiency apartments) are small units combining living and sleeping space with a kitchenette.

performance

output

What something generates

throughput · utilization · capacity · effectiveness · labor · machine · operational · allocation · rate · gains

process

streamlining

Making more aerodynamic or efficient

lean · benchmarking · standardization · throughput · kaizen · just-in-time · turnaround

economic

cost-saving

Reducing expenditure

austerity · lean · value · profitability · downsizing · outsourcing · restructuring · consolidation · margins

energy

renewable

Capable of restoration

geothermal · insulation · LED · conservation · kilowatt-hour · thermal · HVAC · cogeneration

Categories
Opposites
operational effectiveness

efficienciesinefficiencies

Failures to optimize

waste · wastefulness · wastage · dysfunction · ineffectiveness

competence and capability

efficienciesincompetences

Instances of lacking capability

inadequacies · disabilities · deficiencies · incapacities · shortcomings

resource economy

efficienciesinefficiencies

Failures to optimize

extravagances · excesses · profligacies · squanderings · losses

Family

inefficiencies

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