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What is Efficiency

Emerging Trends in Cloud Computing Analytics, Scalability, and Service Models
Efficiency means being able to complete a task, make a product, or provide a service while using the least amount of time, money, and effort possible. In a broad sense, efficiency means maximizing what you put in while minimizing waste, extra costs, and inputs. It is a way to rate how healthy resources are used to get a particular result.
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Implications of Blockchain Technology- Based Cryptocurrency in the cloud for the Hospitality Industry
Mohammad Badruddoza Talukder (Daffodil Institute of IT, Bangladesh), Sanjeev Kumar (Lovely Professional University, India), and Iva Rani Das (Daffodil Institute of IT, Bangladesh)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0900-1.ch018
Abstract
In various industries, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have gained significant importance. This study delves into the crucial role played by blockchain-based cryptocurrencies within the hospitality sector. The significance of this research lies in its aim to address inefficiencies, boost security, and adapt to the evolving landscape within the hospitality industry. The industry's heavy reliance on centralization poses challenges, including steep transaction costs, vulnerabilities in data security, and a lack of transparency. Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies offer solutions to simplify processes, safeguard data, and enable secure, cost-efficient transactions. This paper highlights the increasing importance of blockchain-based solutions in hospitality, underscoring industry stakeholders' need to embrace these innovations. Through an analysis of implications, advantages, and obstacles, this study adds depth to our comprehension of how blockchain-based cryptocurrencies can enhance the hospitality sector's efficiency, security, and competitiveness.
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Customer-Oriented Global Supply Chains: Port Logistics in the Era of Globalization and Digitization
Efficiency within the context of this paper means using a production technology that minimizes incurred costs, and leading to the lowest effort – energy saving – needed to produce a unit of output.
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Critical Success Factors for E-Health
One of the promises of e-health is to increase efficiency in health care, thereby decreasing costs.
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Software to Optimize Productivity and Efficiency
The extent to which time, effort or cost is well used for the intended task or purpose.
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Is Turkey a Favorable Environment for FDIs?: Institutional Outlook to EU-Turkey FDI Flow
It means a performance level that describes how to use the least amount of input to achieve the highest output level.
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Approaches towards Measuring Success in Public Elementary Schools
A comparison of inputs and their related outputs. A more efficient system obtains more output for a given set of resource inputs, or achieves comparable levels of output for fewer inputs.
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Using and Evaluating Learning Objects for Online Courses in Vocational Education
The amount of time spent on the successful use of the learning object (or effectiveness) compared to the benefit received by the learner.
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Structural Aspects of Organizations
It is the property of organizations concerning their ability to carry out their tasks with minimal amount of resources. The structural aspects of efficiency can be exactly quantified with graph-theoretical methods.
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Information Systems and Small Business
The ability to accomplish a task with few resources.
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Towards an Automated, Vigilant, and Strategic HRM Function in Industry 5.0
A state that defines the degree of being dynamic while in operation.
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What Drives Euro Area Labour Productivity Growth?: An International Production-Frontier Examination
Extent to which resource use allows the economy to get close to the optimum performance attainable, as given by available technology.
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Project Management and Efficiency of the Projects in the Industry 4.0 Era
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The Relation between Contingency Factors and the Efficiency of NPOs
Level of performance that describes a process that uses the lowest amount of inputs to create the greatest amount of outputs. Efficiency relates to the use of all inputs in producing any given output. Efficiency is a measurable concept that can be determined by determining the ratio of useful output to total input. It minimizes the waste of resources while successfully achieving the desired output.
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The Implementation of Innovative Technologies in Healthcare: Barriers and Strategies
How well an organization is performing with regard to optimizing its output for given inputs or its inputs for given output.
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Evaluating Usability to Improve Efficiency in E-Learning Programs
Relationship between the effectiveness level and the use of resources. It can be measured either by the number of errors made by the user before completing a task or by the time used to reach the goal. Efficiency can also be defined as the rate of effort used to successfully complete a task.
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Efficiency Assessment of University-Industry Collaboration
A term used to show the level of quality and competency to accomplish a task successfully by using minimum input in terms of time, effort, material, and energy.
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Transgenerational Designs in Mobile Technology
The term describes the degree to which a certain performance is achieved in terms of productivity. For example, it can be analyzed how many detouring routes are carried out until users reach their targeted goal in the menu, and how often they return to higher levels in menu hierarchy to re-orientate.
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Intelligent Assistance Systems for Marketing Decisions
A measurable concept, quantitatively determined by the ratio of useful output to total input.
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The Role of the Entrepreneur in the Promotion of the Digital Economy: A Multi-Country Case Study Between Brazil and Portugal
It is the way to carry out some activities to generate more benefits with the lowest possible cost, that is, it is linked to the cost-benefit ratio.
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Lean Logistics of the Transportation of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) in the Palm Oil Industry
It is a measurable concept that can be determined by determining the ratio of useful output to total input. It minimizes the waste of resources such as loose fruits collection, energy and time, while successfully achieving the desired output. Efficiency means “doing things right’.
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Evaluating Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
The optimal expenditure of resources by a given user in using a given product to achieve a desired goal in a given context of use
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Identification of Tools for Measuring Branded Content: A Proposal for Evaluating Its Effectiveness
The cost of achieving the quantitative objective. A campaign will be more efficient the lower the cost of achieving it.
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The Impact of Improvement in Productivity on the Creation of Value in the Automotive Parts Sector
The comparison of what is actually produced or performed with what can be achieved with the same consumption of resources (money, time, labor, etc.). It is an important factor in determination of productivity. See also effectiveness.
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Usability Evaluation of Digital Library
Efficiency is measured by speed (time and number of steps) of completing tasks.
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Trials and Simulators Research in User Analysis and Sustainable Packaging Development
Ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.
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Waste and Efficiency in a Consumer Economy
Getting the most benefit out of the resources and technology available to us. In economics, this is often more fully specified as “pareto efficiency,” which characterizes the distribution, allocation, and use of resources and technology such that there is no way to make someone better off without hurting someone else.
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Shadow Economy: An Analysis for EU-27 and Turkey
Providing greatest amount of outputs with the lowest amount of inputs.
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Green for ICT, Green by ICT, Green by Design
Is the set of techniques that allow a service or product supplier to fulfil the demands with a reduced energy and mineral resources footprint. Efficiency may be split in component-based efficiency and end-to-end efficiency:
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Knowledge Sharing Practice in Brunei Darussalam
The ability to complete a set of tasks in a shorter period of time and effort.
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The Business Process Management Systems to Improve the Performance of Universities: Integrated Performance Plan
Is defined as a level of performance that uses the lowest amount of inputs to create the greatest amount of outputs.
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Efficiency Theories: The State-of-the-Art
Efficiency can be described in the most general terms as a requisitely holistic measure of working of the reviewed business system; it has been created because humans deemed that tone can attain the desired outcomes of organizational performance from the vantage point of various constituencies directly and indirectly affected by the organization.
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A Renewable Energy Assessment Method by Parametric and Non-Parametric Models' Data Analysis
A performance dimension determining the degree of achievement of the objectives as a result of the activities.
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Battery Efficiency in Outdoor Sports Environments for Mobile Pervasive Augmented Reality Systems
It is the fundamental reduction in the amount of wasted resources that are used to produce a given number of goods or services, resulting from the optimization of resource-use to best serve.
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Sustainability of Public Services: Efficiency Assessment of Educational Systems
Efficiency, which is doing things with as less resources as possible, is mostly compared with efficacy as an ability to produce the expected result.
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Medical Equipment and Economic Determinants of Its Structure and Regulation in the Slovak Republic
Known as effectiveness or productivity generally refers to the efficiency of the used resources and the utility obtained by their use. It is a ratio of inputs and outputs of an activity or a system.
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Distributed Leadership in Educational Training: Educational Leadership
It is the relationship that can be proven between the goals achieved and the aims programmed, considering both the time and the resources used: human, financial and material.
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Probationary Period: The Strategic Leader's Approach to Candidate Selection and Training
The degree to which a process occurs with or without waste; encompasses waste including excess inventory, motion, overproduction, over-processing, lag/waiting time, transport, and defects.
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A Study on the Adoption of Smart Home Technologies Among the Homeowners in Malaysia
Efficiency is the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, effort, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result.
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The Idealization of an Integrated BIM, Lean, and Green Model (BLG)
The secondary quest for finding how to do a thing right, better, faster, cheaper; a quantitative issue that is scientific in nature answering the when, where, how and by whom a process or product takes place. See Emerson and Fernández-Solís.
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Measuring Relative Efficiency and Effectiveness
The degree to which outputs are produced from inputs.
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What-If Analysis on the Evaluation of User Interface Usability
The state of achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or wasted expense.
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How Visualisation and Interaction Can Optimize the Cognitive Processes Towards Big Data
The ratio of the output to the input of a given system. Efficiency is measured as the resources expended by the user in relation to the accuracy and completeness of goals achieved (ISO standard 9241).
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Exploring Productivity by Evaluating ISP Efficiency in Nigeria's Telecommunications Sector
In the context of ISPs, it refers to the ability to provide high-quality internet services using the least amount of resources, such as cost and infrastructure.
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Planning, Budgeting, and Green Controlling: The Budgetary Process of an Economic Entity
A measure of the economic way in which resources/contributions (funds, expertise, time, etc.) are transformed into effects or outcomes.
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Business Process Modification Management
The indicator of performance of an enterprise, expressed as the ratio between output and input.
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Mobile Phone Multitasking and Learning
The total time that it takes to complete the task, longer time to complete the task indicates loss of efficiency.
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Banking Regulation and Efficiency: Evidence From Spain
The quality of achieving the largest amount of useful output using as little amount of inputs as possible.
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The Internet and Tertiary Education
From an IT viewpoint this usually relates to improvements within the business, so for a business it may mean IT systems that reduce costs or perform tasks more reliably or faster.
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Control and Conversion of Solar Power
Ratio of output power over input power.
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Technical Efficiency Through Innovative Methods and Estimations in Financial Markets
Efficiency is a measurable concept, quantitatively determined by the ratio of useful output to total input.
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Advancing Supply Chain Efficiency and Sustainability: A Comprehensive Review of Data Envelopment Analysis Applications
In the context of supply chain management, it refers to the effectiveness with which resources are used to produce outputs. High efficiency means achieving maximum output with minimum input.
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Competitiveness Factors of Accessible Tourism E-Travel Agencies
Is the ability to achieve an objective with the least possible resources or in the shortest time possible.
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Lean Logistics of the Transportation of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) in the Palm Oil Industry
It is a measurable concept that can be determined by determining the ratio of useful output to total input. It minimizes the waste of resources such as loose fruits collection, energy and time, while successfully achieving the desired output. Efficiency means “doing things right’.
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Efficiency of Artificial Reefs for Local Communities Over Time
The efficiency of artificial reefs can be seen from the point of view of the usefulness of the structures for the benefit of human activities (e.g., fishing, diving), so that there is no unnecessary waste of resources – materials, energy, money, time – and that the benefits achieved by the stakeholders be the desired ones.
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Performance Evaluation of Mobile Phone Producers
The use of the fewest inputs (resources) to produce the most outputs (products or services).
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Impact of Global Pattern on the EU Economic Growth and Urbanization
The comparison of what is produced or performed with what can be achieved with the same consumption of resources. It is an essential factor in the determination of productivity.
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Data Envelopment Analysis in Healthcare Management: Overview of the Latest Trends
The ability to achieve desired outcomes with the least amount of resources. In the context of healthcare, it refers to the ability of a hospital or healthcare system to deliver high-quality care with optimal resource utilization.
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Collective Bargaining as a Tool for Industrial Conflict in Organization and Conflict Resolution
Efficiency is the quality of being able to achieve especially when much time and effort will be needed.
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Isac's Cones in General Vector Spaces
The quality of a point in a non-void set of an ordered vector space to be of minimum (maximum) in relation with a convex cone or to its appropriate translations.
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The Analysis of Health Care Expenses of Turkey between 1990-2012
Efficiency can be defined as optimization of resources. In this chapter efficiency refers the least waste of health sources.
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Improving Virtual Teams through Swift Structure
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Intelligence-Based Operation of Aviation Radioelectronic Equipment
The ability of the system to achieve the desired result taking into account the costs of resources.
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Relative Efficiency of Universities Using Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Implications for the Arab Countries
The best relationship between inputs and outputs. Efficiency can be improved by using the available inputs to maximize the outputs, or to minimize inputs without changing the outputs.
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Data Mining Software
Measure of actual output over effective capacity or the ratio of output to input.
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Expansion Power Recovery in Refrigeration Systems
A general term to quantify the performance of a machine, defined as the ratio between output and input.
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Building Performance Comparative Study: The Indoor Environment Quality and Energy Efficiency – Green Building vs. Conventional Building
Efficiency is the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result.
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Factors Influencing Virtual Learning System Usage in Higher Education
It falls under the category of non-functional characteristics that refers to the capability of the system to provide the required performance in terms of amount of resources used and acceptable response time.
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Governance for Higher Education Robustness: Case of Universities
How well an activity or operation is performed ( Kenny, 2008 ). This can also relate to the optimum use of resources (mainly company finances) to produce best quality products and/services.
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