efficiency experts
Time-motion study professionals
Efficiency experts are consultants who analyze business operations to eliminate waste and improve productivity.
The term dates to the early twentieth century scientific management movement, when time-and-motion studies promised to optimize factory work.
Today it often carries slight mockery—the efficiency expert who disrupts a functioning workplace with clipboards and stopwatches: Corporate sent in efficiency experts, and now we fill out three forms to requisition a pencil.
- consultantProfessional advice provider
- management consultantExternal business problem-solver
- cost savingsReduction in expenditure
- KaizenOngoing incremental enhancement philosophy
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
assembly line · factory floor · analyst · value stream mapping · Six Sigma · optimization · benchmarking · performance metrics · healthcare · stopwatch · education · productivity · operations manager · cost reduction · cutting corners · logistics · resource allocation · scalability
- Energy InnovatorsNikola Tesla, Thomas Edison
- utility workersutility workers, lineman, linemen, meter reader, electricians
efficiency expertshumanists
Advocates for human reason
artists · philosophers · creatives · chaplains · poets
efficiency expertsspendthrifts
Habitual money wasters
big spenders · profligates · wastrels · venture capitalists · philanthropists
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