Results for productivity

Strategic AI – the way to improve productivity and inter alia help the NHS…

Emmanuel Macron Talks to WIRED About France’s AI Strategy with €1.5bn financial support over 5 yrs…This technology will be a major disrupter and a force for greater productivity – especially health care and mobility sectors https://www.wired.com/story/emmanuel-macron-talks-to-wired-about-frances-ai-strategy/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare … via @WIRED

 

“Most car-owners believe they are above-average drivers, most companies might well believe they have above-average levels of productivity”…Andy Haldane, Bank of England

  Unfortunately, according to the Office of National Statistics in February 2016, “The U.K.’s ‘productivity gap’ of about 14% is about twice as large as the gap for the rest of the G7”   Quoted in the FT, Ann Francke, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), said one problem is that in the […]

 

The post truth productivity challenge to the British economy…

As we have said before, productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything…this was Nobel prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman’s statement that a country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker hour. As Martin Wolf points out in today’s […]

 

Access to finance; Productivity; HOT SMEs and Schrodinger’s cat…

Access to finance. The British Business Bank (BBB) comes under fire for its lack lustre performance in providing effective routes to finance for SMEs.  Barry James, writing an open letter to chancellor, Philip Hammond in Real Business points out that 99% of companies are SMEs and they employ half of employed people outside government. He […]

 

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything…

According Nobel prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, a country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker. If countries are to grow, either its people need to work harder (or longer…), or they need to increase immigration (as the US, UK and Germany […]

 

The Queen’s speech – On the problem of ignored productivity…

CIPD – The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has questioned the government’s priorities on improving the UK’s productivity. Although the UK’s GDP has grown in recent years, this has been predominantly as a result of immigration increasing the size of the work force; productivity in terms of output per head has been more or […]

 

The Government’s UK Productivity Plan – a strategy without an execution phase – except to convert R&D grants to loans…

UK productivity has been flat since the banking crisis and is now 14 per cent below the level that would have been achieved if pre-crisis trends had continued.   Addressing this, it is hard to disagree with the government’s overall strategic framework for raising productivity. It covers 15 policy areas from long term investment in […]

 

UK growth in productivity and innovation, where art thou?

The latest labour productivity report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) makes grim reading. The ONS report that “…the absence of (UK) productivity growth in the seven years since 2007 is unprecedented in the post-war period…” Put that into context with the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde’s statement on 9th April that the […]

 

Big companies and academics can help the UK economy by supporting SMEs to become more productive…

  Andy Haldane, chief economist if the Bank of England, believes that even modest management improvements amongst complacent companies could lead to an overall productivity leap.   The FT recently reported the success story of a four-decade-old glassworks at Cumbria Crystal near the Lake District, where molten glass is still blown by mouth and where […]

 

The apprenticeship…

As with the USA, improving the UK’s sagging productivity is a big economic issue. One of the issues is developing skills and SMEs are often happy to help support this by taking on apprentices. However, currently such employers have to pay full wage for the 2 days a week or so that apprentices are at college (less […]

 

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