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Part 2 on Efficiency or effectiveness : and the winner is.....

My previous post on 'efficiency or effectiveness : and the winner is....' generated some points of view. These ranged from: What is more important, 'efficiency or effectiveness'? Is there a framework which I could suggest on when to choose between effciency and effectiveness? Why the hype on this, efficiency and effectiveness have always existed - is there something new in their manner of existence? Does efficiency drive effectiveness or vice versa? Are efficiency and effectiveness driven only by the individual concerned or are there other factors also? At the outset, I would like to thank all the readers who went through my post and rasied queries. I would like to revisit some elements of my previous post on this topic. Based on my experience, I feel in current scenario, effciency and effectiveness are two side of the same coin. Creating a coin with only one of the two elements on the sides will only render it useless. The concept's of efficiency gai