Productivity Knowhow

Productivity Knowhow

Productivity is "the guts of capitalism" – Warren Buffett

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  • About Us
    • Introduction
    • Aims
    • Founder
  • 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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OPT – Optimised Production Technology

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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

  • Capital Spending Boom Helps Raise Productivity
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  • Your boss wants to boil you slowly like a frog
  • The COVID ‘productivity boom’ is a myth
  • Employers want workers in the office for the company culture, not productivity

Posts on ‘Overall productivity’

  • Billionaire investor warns inflation to curtail gains December 10, 2021
  • The coming productivity boom June 12, 2021
  • Pandemic provides unexpected boost to UK’s productivity prospects June 3, 2021
  • How to solve the puzzle of missing productivity growth May 24, 2021
  • How We Work Has Changed Forever April 27, 2021
  • The Silver Lining of 2020* December 30, 2020
  • Something more to look forward to in 2021 December 22, 2020
  • Debt may be cheap, but the UK’s poor productivity will cost us dear October 12, 2020
  • Why Software Won’t Eat The World September 30, 2020
  • CV-19 provides a giant leap for creative destruction September 21, 2020

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