For 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 within businesses using approaches which have been proven to work well
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Productivity improvement is a complex subject embracing most management disciplines affecting all organisations, large and small, in all sectors, public and private
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Sadly, too many managers don’t understand this, instead believing it has passed its shelf-life having been relevant only to shop floor and clerical work when industry, not services, dominated economies
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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, thereby increasing profits and so pay levels
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The latter created even more demand for different and/or better goods and services so economies, standards of living and quality of lives further improved
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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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This website offers many extracts from our latest book on productivity – ‘Productivity Knowhow Revisited’ – an updated and shorter version of the original ‘Productivity Knowhow’, which became possible because of the spare time afforded by Covid-19 -
Together, this website’s pages, the book and articles posted weekly target managers on the front-line who are keen to make big productivity improvements but lack the productivity knowhow
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Their overall aim is to simplify the complex, increase managers’ understanding of how to improve productivity and enable them to take effective action – to the benefit of all