At that time, cloud was recognized as a distant fourth as a means to increase productivity.
But goal setting must be prescribed in doses, not as a standard remedy to increase productivity.
The mechanism is that it is easier to increase productivity in manufacturing (or agriculture) than it is in services.
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But few, if any, have done it while continuing to increase productivity - output per head - by 6-7% a year.
Increased biodiversity was a "happy by-product" of sustainable farming practices and farmers working with "natural processes" to increase productivity, she added.
Peter Nguyen, founder of Literati Institute is resolving to increase productivity in a big way by making a big change.
For the long-term, the only way to increase productivity is through innovation.
Although watered-down in terms of union transparency, the bill has the potential to increase productivity, to boost employment, and to improve competitiveness.
Murrin formed a fund that will own 370, 000 acres of South African farmland by midyear, with plans to increase productivity through improved farming methods.
It will reward those who have sought simply to increase productivity.
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As companies strive to increase productivity and reduce costs, redundancies mount.
It was no surprise to me that a few entrepreneurs want to increase productivity in 2013, but the solutions to do so were very unique.
Mr Diaz-Canel has signalled that he favours more complex reforms as the country attempts to increase productivity, reduce imports and eventually abolish its much-resented dual currency.
Mandating a fixed threshold will also have the perverse effect of lessening incentives to increase productivity in health care and get lower prices from insurers, physicians and hospitals.
It does nothing to increase productivity but, to the extent that it distorts capital flows and investment decisions, it wastes our time and savings and reduces our long-term productivity.
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But I also know how you've managed to meet them, and managed through them -- experimenting and innovating and finding new ways to increase productivity and better serve your customers.
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We are taking money from private hands, where it has the potential to increase productivity, and putting it into government hands, where it will do nothing for growth of the economy.
Businesses want to increase productivity, and workers want freedom.
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Third, the global economic crisis, and the competition from rising economies, is driving employers to find new ways to increase productivity, cut costs and at the same time retain the best talent.
Structural forces, which include growing middle classes in emerging economies and a greater demand for proteins, along with economic considerations such as the quality of feed quality used to increase productivity play a role.
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Ultimately, though, the Mexican economy is going to depend also on changing some of the structures internally to increase productivity, to train the workforce there, so education in Mexico is going to be also very important.
The survey on business growth strategies found mid-size companies continue to prioritize automation of business processes, data analytics, and business intelligence as triggers to increase productivity and areas where they are most likely to make investments in 2012.
But, in the longer run, the breakdown of an exchange-rate regime that did so much to foster growth may force the region's exporters to do things they have long talked about, such as improving education so as to increase productivity and foster domestic technologies.
Mars has said that an extra one million metric tons, or 1.1 million short tons, of cocoa will be needed to satisfy global demand by 2020 if no serious efforts are put in place to increase productivity in nations such as Ivory Coast, where farmers are already turning to alternative crops such as rubber or abandoning their small holdings altogether.
This study, published in Personnel Psychology, compares two groups of activities that aim to increase company productivity: those related to human resources, such as training and teamwork, and those related to operational management, such as just-in-time production and total-quality management.
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Meanwhile, ever since Al Gore launched a training initiative to increase the productivity of air traffic controllers in 1998, productivity has continued to fall.
If you are a country facing a population decline (like Japan), to keep your GDP growing you have to increase your productivity even more.
Great sales executives understand that to increase the productivity of their sales people they need to continually invest in both product and sales effectiveness training.
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