Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient.

We've truly transformed Accenture capabilities to help our clients embrace the new, applying innovation and intelligence at the heart of their organizations.

Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

I'm not a technical person, at all, but you get a little bit more of a sense for how to get something done a little bit more efficiently. I think everybody is in that place where it's a little bit more efficient, but the process is still the same, which is still loose and collaborative.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.