Targeting managers at all levels who are interested in making big productivity improvements
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Our focus is on measuring the right things and then finding practical ways to close performance gaps using approaches which have been proven to work well
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All information and opinions are offered for free
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Productivity improvement is a complex subject embracing most management disciplines. The upside of widespread productivity improvement is a vast increase in national economic growth rates and standards of living, mostly achieved by reducing unit costs of goods and services enabling many more people to afford them. With such benefits, ‘how to improve productivity’ has become the most important issue facing any manager or government minister in peace-time – at least in ‘non-pandemic times’
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Our latest book in a productivity trilogy – ‘Productivity Knowhow’ Revisited – is an updated and shorter version of the original ‘Productivity Knowhow’ – it became possible because of the spare time afforded by the Covid-19 pandemic and this website includes many extracts from it
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Together, the books and posted articles on this website target managers on the front-line who are keen to make big productivity improvements but lack the ‘productivity knowhow’ – in particular, the overall aim is to simplify the complex and so maximise their understanding so they can take effective action
Why should a department head, marketing or branch manager, chief constable or fire officer, CEO or government minister bother about productivity?
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In the private sector, productivity determines sales revenue and profit margins, and hence the number of jobs available, the pay levels possible and the national tax-take potential
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In the public sector, productivity determines unit costs and so the volume and quality of services that can be provided for the limited tax-payers’ money allocated
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Nationally, productivity thus determines the standard of living and quality of life of everyone living there