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Productivity,
Manufacturing
2019 was a difficult year for UK productivity as negative results in the first half of the year were succeeded by two very slow, if marginally positive, quarters1. In light of the economic disruption..
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Engage & Improve,
Productivity
(Alternative Title: why you should stop chasing employee happiness and strive for employee engagement) A number of recent (and not so recent) LinkedIn posts, news articles and research papers posit..
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Productivity,
Manufacturing
Finding ways to stay competitive and to raise productivity in a volatile and increasingly complex world remains a key challenge for many British manufacturing companies. That’s why Roland Berger and..
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Engage & Improve,
Productivity
Unipart Group and Voyager Solutions are to work together to provide transformation services for back-office processing, client service administration and operational reporting using software robots..
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Productivity
What can we do to raise productivity? Figures from the Office for National Statistics demonstrate an increase in UK manufacturing output for the second quarter of 2016, however, UK productivity..
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Productivity
Could it be down to rising wage inequality? Sandra Polaski, the former US secretary of state’s special representative for international labour affairs believes it is. It's widely reported that UK..
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Productivity
One of the most common assumptions made about productivity is that it is to do with process technology. It stands to reason that a worker with an expensive machine can crank out more stuff than one..
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Productivity
The underlying data is incomplete and noisy. The models which underpin the rules, and the assumptions which underpin the models, are deeply flawed, and understood in detail by very few people indeed.
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