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Productivity is "the guts of capitalism" – Warren Buffett

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  • Productivity
    • Productivity Improvement
    • ‘New’ productivity
    • Effectiveness v Efficiency
    • ‘Old’ productivity
    • Why important for individuals
    • Why important for organisations
    • Why important for nations
    • What scope to improve?
  • Organisations
    • Productivity improvement process
    • Corporate plans
    • Cardinal measures
      • Cardinal model
      • Financial outcomes
        • Revenue – R
        • Costs – C
        • Profitability – P
      • Customer outcomes
        • Price Index – PI
        • Quality Index – QI
        • Service Index – SI
      • Physical inputs
        • Productivity measurement
        • Waste A%
        • Waste U%
        • Waste E%
        • Waste AUE%
      • Mental Inputs
        • Employee Motivation – MI
        • Corporate Knowledge – KI
      • Target setting
        • Budgets
        • Best Practices
        • Waypoints
        • Goals
    • Analyses of scope
      • Action decision tree
    • Special improvement projects
      • Organisation level
      • Process level
      • Task level
    • Continuous improvement
    • Tools available
      • Agile
      • Baldrige award
      • BEM – Business Excellence Model
      • BPR
      • Brainstorming
      • BS 5750 or ISO 9000
      • BSC – Balanced Scorecard
      • IIP – Investors in People
      • LEAN
      • OPT – Optimised Production Technology
      • OR – Operations Research
      • Outsourcing
      • PPF – Putting People First
      • Project Management
      • Quality Circles
      • Six Sigma
      • TFP or MFP
      • TQM – Total Quality Management
      • VA – Value Analysis
      • WS/ OM – Work Study/ Organisation & Methods
  • Nations
    • National PI process
    • National productivity plans
    • National productivity measures
      • Outputs – GDP
      • Inputs – Labour – Hours
      • Inputs – Labour – Skills
      • Inputs – Materials
      • Inputs – Capital
      • NHI – National Happiness Index
      • NKI – National Knowledge Index
    • National productivity gaps
    • National action needed
      • Ongoing
      • Action needed – Overall
      • Action needed – Private sector
      • Action needed – Public sector
  • Global
    • Global goals
    • Global action needed
  • Books
    • ‘Productivity Knowhow’
      • Review of ‘Productivity Knowhow’
      • Contents of ‘Productivity Knowhow’
      • How to buy
    • Library – Other books recommended
  • Quotes
  • Contact Us

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Tools available Agile Baldrige award BEM – Business Excellence Model BPR Brainstorming BS 5750 or ISO 9000 BSC – Balanced Scorecard IIP – Investors in People LEAN OPT – Optimised Production Technology OR – Operations Research Outsourcing PPF – Putting People First Project Management Quality Circles Six Sigma TFP or MFP TQM – Total Quality Management VA – Value Analysis WS/ OM – Work Study/ Organisation & Methods

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Books – Our ‘Productivity’ trilogy

‘Productivity Knowhow’ – the basic knowhow managers need for big productivity improvements

‘Productivity Postbag’ – a selection of views on productivity matters from business heavyweights

‘Productivity Quotes’ – over 1,000 quotes from the ‘great and good’, some amusing, some controversial

Recent Posts

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  • The Silver Lining of 2020*
  • Something more to look forward to in 2021
  • Four-day week could boost jobs in Spain
  • France planned to reverse globalisation but is still bleeding jobs
  • The post-pandemic brave new world
  • Microsoft software criticised as workplace surveillance
  • The future of work?
  • WFH results = Productivity Up, Innovation Down
  • Knowledge workers are more productive from home
  • Is the pandemic making us more productive?
  • Potential £145bn productivity boost for UK economy
  • The Key to solving the Productivity Puzzle
  • Debt may be cheap, but the UK’s poor productivity will cost us dear
  • AI will unlock USD 15.7 trillion in global productivity by 2030
  • £300 million to boost UK manufacturing productivity by 30%
  • Why Software Won’t Eat The World
  • CV-19 provides a giant leap for creative destruction
  • Long-term planning for remote work
  • Ridding ourselves of the productivity fetish will help us combat climate change
  • The ‘Circular Economy’ to boost national productivity
  • Academics to boost productivity growth and level-up living standards
  • COVID brings productivity into sharp focus
  • How much does bad management really cost the UK?
  • The Occam’s Razor Of Productivity
  • Are You Leading Through the Crisis … or Managing the Response?
  • Are office clusters as crucial to productivity as they once were?
  • How Fed Policy Is Wrecking the Economy
  • How to reverse the productivity slowdown
  • How a Fully Distributed Company Keeps Its Team Engaged
  • Next CBI boss finds ray of hope in coronavirus crisis
  • Can COVID-19 solve the UK productivity puzzle?
  • Tolerance is good for all
  • Dramatically improve customer service so as to cut costs
  • Why working from home is bad for productivity
  • CBI a closed-shop for McKinsey alumni?
  • 5 Questions About China That Boards Should Be Asking Right Now
  • Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19
  • Covid-19 kickstarts gigification of knowledge work
  • Rebuilding the Economy Around Good Jobs
  • Will companies shift from China to India?
  • A clear vision for the post-crisis future?
  • FILE – Productivity, Credit and Debt
  • The post-pandemic world?
  • How to make ‘remote work’ more productive
  • Pandemic offers a productivity boost?
  • Coronavirus statistics: what can we trust?
  • Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times
  • It’s output results, not input hours, that matter
  • Office productivity
  • A shorter work week?
  • Steve Jobs’ advice on becoming more productive Is quite brilliant
  • M/S says “Remote working is here for good”
  • Will the Pandemic make us more productive?
  • How to boost office productivity
  • The economic impact of CV-19?
  • CV-19 kick starts new mentalist era
  • Covid -19 should make ‘working from home’ the norm
  • A pandemic positive!
  • Financial data can be ‘dangerously misleading’
  • Important trends for SME productivity
  • Capitalism or Communism?
  • Universal Credit conflicts
  • Following the wrong stars?
  • Mavericks don’t fit straitjackets
  • Piketty tackles inequality
  • Inherited inequality
  • Process productivity decided by humans
  • BIF drains, not lines, national coffers

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