Waste U%

Once a resource is available and paid for, it’s usually wasteful to leave it idle – it must be used on productive work as much as possible:
- ‘Productive work’ is work which meets customers’ demand – which adds value to them for which they will pay
- ‘Unproductive work’ adds no value to customers and includes time spent idle, waiting or correcting mistakes because you didn’t do things ‘right first time’

Most of the above reasons will be caused by poor systems/ methods in use rather than the knowledge and motivation levels of the people involved

An aide memoire for busy businessmen, mostly land bound, who yearn ‘to go down to the seas again’

‘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