Introduction

Most organisations, and nations, perform well below their potential i.e. most could produce at least 30% more services or output using the same resources, or cut 30% of their inputs/ costs and still provide the same output/ outcomes

You may be a manager or government minister of one of them and struggling with one or more of the following issues – the many pages on this website cover ways to address most of them – simply click on the relevant connections below to find help that worked for others viz:

• How to select the few important performance measures you and your team need – and ignore the blizzards you may now suffer from?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=391

• How to set effective targets for each performance measure –  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=321

• How to assess the % scope you have to improve?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=327

• How to manage special improvement projects – how to set them up, solve problems, implement solutions?                                    http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=329

• How to make big (at least 20% plus) performance improvements:

  • At organisation level – to invest in latest and best methods and technology covering products/ services, markets/ customers or structures/ employees?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=361

  • At process level – to minimise waste, optimise use of existing resources?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=363

  • At task level – to increase task capacity, employ right methods?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=365

  • At national level – action needed from any government?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=354

  • At global level – action needed from all governments?  http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=352

• How to improve continuously and tap employees’ ideas?                        http://www.productivityknowhow.com/?page id=331

Productivity improvement isn’t about working more hours – it is about working smarter by first cutting waste, making better use of existing resources and then investing in best practices and technology everywhere

This website offers free information, comment and advice to all those managers and government ministers who are keen to ‘have a go’ at major productivity improvement but lack the knowhow on what to do

We warmly welcome any constructive comments and questions you may have so we can at least take our own medicine and continuously improve this website and how it is used