Quotes About Streamlining

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

In the case of Comcast, we're taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don't need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it's all speeding up.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

Disminuir en un 80% el tiempo que le lleva al equipo clave dirigir la compañía (actividades operativas).

In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them."19

The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

If you're diversified into five businesses, as we once were, the businesses that only make up 3% of your sales are going to take 20% of your time, energy, and attention. It's just not worth it. Focus. Do what you do better than anyone else. And the results will probably be very positive, as they were for us once we decided to concentrate all our efforts on one line of business.

Technology takes processes of yesterday and makes it simpler, faster, accessible, and more cost efficient.

70 percent of your ability to improve your stroke length coming from eliminating more of the water's drag on your body.

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.

The first involves streamlining operations and introducing cost innovations from manufacturing to distribution.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. –PETER F. DRUCKER

the reality is that the best outsourcing is not about getting rid of work you don't want to do. If it's truly dumb work, maybe it doesn't have to be done at all. Maybe processes can be automated.

You can compress time spent on non-core-competency activities with a three-part strategy: • Ignore it • Minimize it, or • Outsource it

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered;

Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.

He touched the keyboard and the terminal displayed a list of all the activities he usually engaged in, then scanned through them. He could touch a key and it would go directly to the activity he wanted, skipping dozens of preliminaries, saving him many painful minutes of typing one character at a time.

things, by removing the superfluous." The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious

the definition of a machine is simple. It is anything that reduces human effort. Anything.

Your lean process should be a lean process.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.