streamlinings
Making processes leaner
Streamlinings is the plural of streamlining, the process of making something more efficient or aerodynamic.
Organizations undergo streamlinings to cut costs or reduce bureaucracy: The company announced three separate streamlinings over five years.
The plural emphasizes distinct instances or rounds of such efforts rather than the general concept.
Changes improving efficiency
- simplificationsActs of reducing complexity
- rationalizationsPost-hoc mental defenses
- improvementsChanges that upgrade quality
- refinementsIncremental quality upgrades
enhancements · modernizations · upgrades · reductions · consolidations · trimming · cutting · eliminating
Creates or conceives layouts
- shapesExternal outlines of things
- contoursBoundary lines of shapes
- profilesSummaries of characteristics
- formsVarieties or documents
bodies · hulls · fairings · curves · surfaces · sleekness · smoothness · tapering
Systematic organizational overhauls
- downsizingsPlanned workforce reductions
- reorganizationsSystematic structural changes
- consolidationsUnifications into wholes
- mergersCorporate consolidations
cutbacks · layoffs · rightsizings · overhauls · transformations · delayering · centralizations · integrations
Removals of governmental controls
- simplificationsActs of reducing complexity
- reformsCorrective institutional changes
- reductionsActs of lessening
- eliminationsActs of removing
relaxations · liberalizations · modernizations · harmonizations · standardizations · approvals · permitting · licensing
optimizations
Changes improving efficiency
- simplificationsActs of reducing complexity
- rationalizationsPost-hoc mental defenses
- improvementsChanges that upgrade quality
refinements · enhancements · modernizations · upgrades · reductions · consolidations · trimming · cutting · eliminating · accelerating
designs
Creates or conceives layouts
- shapesExternal outlines of things
- contoursBoundary lines of shapes
- profilesSummaries of characteristics
forms · bodies · hulls · fairings · curves · surfaces · sleekness · smoothness · tapering · aerodynamics
restructurings
Systematic organizational overhauls
- downsizingsPlanned workforce reductions
- reorganizationsSystematic structural changes
- consolidationsUnifications into wholes
mergers · cutbacks · layoffs · rightsizings · overhauls · transformations · delayering · centralizations · integrations
deregulations
Removals of governmental controls
- simplificationsActs of reducing complexity
- reformsCorrective institutional changes
- reductionsActs of lessening
eliminations · relaxations · liberalizations · modernizations · harmonizations · standardizations · approvals · permitting · licensing
streamliningscomplications
Difficulties that emerge unexpectedly
expansions · elaborations · convolutions · bureaucratizations · entanglements
streamliningsexpansions
Increases in size
additions · enlargements · augmentations · buildups · proliferations