Suggesting improvements

To intentionally increase existing performance or efficiency.

Analyzing technical systems, discussing project management, improving workflows

IT, engineering, corporate leadership, project management

die; optimieren

die; optimieren

The noun can be replaced with other performance-related terms (e.g., 'die Effizienz', 'die Leistung').

• System
• Website
• Prozess
• Anwendung
• Hardware

• die Leistung verbessern (more neutral
• less technical)
• die Effizienz steigern (emphasizes resource utilization)

‘die Performance’ is often incorrectly used with the wrong gender ‘der’; ‘optimieren’ is combined with inappropriate nouns (e.g., ‘die Idee optimieren’); confusion with ‘verbessern’, where ‘optimieren’ sounds too technical; missing article with ‘Performance’ (e.g., ‘Performance optimieren’ instead of ‘die Performance optimieren’).

die Leistung steigern, die Effizienz erhöhen, die Produktivität verbessern, die Performance verringern, die Leistung senken

English speakers may overuse ‘optimieren’ for any improvement and choose ‘optimieren’ where ‘verbessern’ is more idiomatic; they may also apply the English word order ‘optimize the performance’ and forget the feminine article ‘die’ in German; the Anglicism ‘Performance’ can be confused with the German meaning ‘Aufführung’.

• die Leistung steigern
• die Effizienz erhöhen
• die Produktivität steigern
• die Performance verbessern

‘optimieren’ implies a targeted, often technical improvement with measurable goals and sounds more formal than the general ‘verbessern’.

Signals expertise and a proactive drive for efficiency improvement; sounds professional and solution-oriented.

Leistung steigern

‘Performance’ ist ein Anglizismus; in sehr formellen Texten kann ‘Leistung’ oder ‘Effizienz’ bevorzugt werden.

die Leistungsfähigkeit maximieren