When most of a project's costs are people costs, even a small increase in productivity can deliver big savings. The most significant benefit is increasing the speed of a project because speed not only reduces project costs but also delivers the...
It was that the vast majority of productivity gains come entirely from shutting unproductive installations and opening new ones. While a more vigorous employment of Darwinian principles might seem to offer large productivity gains, it might equally...
Productivity gains don't exist if cost savings are not achieved [first]," she adds. Perhaps the reason it's not happening very quickly, then, is that senior decision-makers, such as the CFOs and CIOs, are concerned only with year-on-year savings.
Vajpayee also said union concerns about jobs being 'lost' overseas were unfounded and that the cost savings and productivity gains as a result of firms moving operations offshore benefit western countries the most.
Customers are effectively telling the vendors to put their money where their mouth is and prove that their projected productivity gains don't just happen on paper. In some cases this is going to be straightforward, such as cost savings or increased...
The gains came from apparent cost savings as sales fell to £3.2bn from £3.7bn in the previous year, though the company says revenues were flat after accounting for the strengthening of the British pound over the last 12 months.