Quotes About Streamlining

If you have six corporate centres, six treasuries, six of everything, and then if you bring it down to one of everything, obviously there are some savings.

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

One of the tangible benefits of the merger is that we are not vying with each other for work. We can now focus on organizing work in one place. There is no SAG, no AFTRA, only SAG-AFTRA.

Anything that just yielded an average degree of satisfaction for the time or effort should be discarded

The most beautiful things in the world," Ford said a quarter century later, "are those from which all excess weight has been eliminated." The car he was working on would weigh five hundred pounds.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Studying

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

Do nothing which is of no use.

Most Business Processes Are 90% Waste and 10% Value-Added Work

I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead

Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.

Recall that the goal of an architect is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system.

Whether you are designing systems or individual modules, never forget to use the simplest thing that can possibly work.

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO PAPER THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL CARRY NO INVENTORY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ENTIRELY DIGITAL THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED