A new survey by the Australian Industry Group and Deloitte has found that "by far and away the most common reason for business investing in new technologies over the past three years has been to increase productivity levels" .   As can be seen in the table below, 71.6% of respondents indicated that the main reason to invest in technology was to increase productivity.   "Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it’s nearly everything” Nobel Prize-winn... [More]

  “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it’s nearly everything” Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.  John Edwards, the Reserve Bank of Australia board member said in a paper published by the RBA, that economic reforms would enhance productivity and stressed that in the long run, productivity will come down to technology and innovation, to improvements in human capital and to our capacity to invent, or adopt and adapt productivity-enhancin... [More]

    From: www.cio.com Gartner: the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2012 – Michael Cooney, Network World October 18, 2011  ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the IT worldtoday is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice Presid... [More]

  Steve Jobs: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs told Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death because they know they are guilty."   Full article:   http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/will-steve-jobs-final-vendetta-haunt-google-20111023-1meti.html  ... [More]

  Harnessing the future - Rust Report 21/10/2011 October 21, 2011 Publisher Len Rust Modern technologies and applications, particularly of information and communication, are a major driver today not just of improved quality of life but also of economic growth. The implications of the growth of the “digital economy” for the prosperity of the general economy cannot be overstated. Numerous studies have documented the relationship between increased use of information... [More]

Workers 'waste $109bn' Mark Hawthorne (SMH) October 17, 2011 AUSTRALIAN workers are among the hardest-working in the developed world, notching an average 44-hour week, but they also rank among the least productive, amassing $109 billion of wasted wages each year. A third of Australian employees plan to quit in the next year, more than half say poor management has the biggest impact on their productivity, and 18 per cent of the average working day is spent on ''work that wasted time and eff... [More]

  A great article was produced in the AFR on 1/10/11 about executive remuneration and productivity, better say, the discrepancy on how the increase of executive remuneration is reflected in a decline in productivity!!! Andrew Cornell explains in his article how executive remuneration has been increasing whilst shareholders returns and productivity has been in decline. He says, “The past decade has seen productivity stall, total shareholder returns flatten, wage share of output de... [More]

  This is a great article by Dion Hinchcliffe from ZDNET who explain how these new technologies will challenge CIO's and their quest to improve productivity in corporations. Summary:  In today’s ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT department isn’t considered the home of innovation and business leadership.  Yet that might have to change as some of the biggest advances in the history of technology make their way into the front lines of service deliv... [More]

Want to increase your productivity?  When you want to watch a YouTube video of a presentation or someone talking for a long time, just increase its speed with this plug in: YouTube HTML5 Video Player   http://www.youtube.com/html5 You can watch a 1 hr video in half or less of its time. You need a modern browser (able to play HTML5) - Chrome, Firefox, etc Marco Tapia www.picnet.com.au  

CEO PULSE: Productivity should be Gillard’s top priority   Australia’s top chief executives have named declining productivity as the most urgent issue the federal government must address in order to ensure sustainable prosperity, as their optimism about the prospects for the Australian economy plummeted 25 per cent over the past quarter. The latest Business Spectator Accenture CEO Pulse surveyshows 147 surveyed chief executives – who run compani... [More]