Productivity is the efficiency with which an economy (or a company or a business unit) transforms inputs into outputs. At a high level, improved production efficiency can generate higher real incomes and lead to long term improvements in the living standards … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
From: www.cio.com, Michael Cooney, Network World October 18, 2011 ORLANDO — The technology that makes up many of the systems in the IT world today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading