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Domino's Pizza opens 500th store.
Domino's Pizza said in a trading statement that its like-for-like sales increased by 14.7 per cent last year, thanks to new menus and productivity gains. Nathalie Olof-Ors Domino's Pizza said in a trading statement that its like-for-like sales increased by 14.7 per...
Tags: productivity gain
Research articles 2008-01-09
IDC Study Connects New Host Access Technology With Average Savings of $5.8 million/year; Attachmate Customers Participate in Benchmark, Quantify Productivity Gains
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Attachmate Corporation, 20-year experts in legacy integration, today announced the results of an ROI research study it sponsored that reveals a direct correlation between new host access technology and significant productivity gains that quickly translate into net savings. Conducted by IDCR, the independent market intelligence and advisory...
Tags: Attachmate Corp., International Data Corp., Microsoft Access, productivity gain
Research articles 2004-06-16
Analysts Cite Firms Hiring in Silicon Valley.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
SAN JOSE, Calif.--May 17--High-tech companies have been insufferably optimistic for several years. Bigger companies bragged about their revenue growth even as they cut back employment, shifted factory jobs elsewhere and then reaped productivity gains. SAN JOSE, Calif.--May 17--High-tech companies have been insufferably optimistic for several years....
Tags: hiring, productivity gain, San Jose Mercury News
Research articles 1995-05-18
Ford to Need Productivity Gains to Pay for Labor Contract.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
Sep. 18--Ford Motor Co.'s proposed labor pact with the UAW will demand large productivity gains to afford the estimated $500 million in additional payroll costs, analysts said Tuesday. Sep. 18--Ford Motor Co.'s proposed labor pact with the UAW will demand large productivity gains to afford the...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., labor contract, productivity gain
Research articles 1996-09-18
Analysts Question How Ford Will Pay for Labor Pact with Auto Workers.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)
Sep. 18--Ford Motor Co.'s proposed labor pact with the UAW would demand large productivity gains for the company to afford the estimated $500 million in additional payroll costs, analysts said Tuesday. Sep. 18--Ford Motor Co.'s proposed labor pact with the UAW would demand large productivity gains...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., productivity gain
Research articles 1996-09-18
Jobs Report: Unemployment Breaks 10%
10.2% -- that's the most important number from the October Employment Report. For the first time since 1983, the over 1 out of every 10 American is out of work. How's that for starting your Friday with some sobering news? The 190,000 jobs...
Tags: Job, Productivity Gain, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jill Schlesinger
Blog posts 2009-11-06

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U.S. Productivity Gain Brings Greater Job Security for Workers
Fearing you may lose your job can really kick your work effort into higher gear -- especially when your struggling employer is putting pressure on to squeeze more productivity out of a shrinking workforce. That's just what happened in the third quarter when U.S. worker productivity posted...
Tags: Job, Productivity, Worker, Chris Pummer
Blog posts 2009-11-05
The Productivity Gap | BTalk Australia
(14min 40) Telstra has just released "The Telstra Productivity Indicator: A report on business attitudes toward improving productivity in Australia", highlighting what is termed the productivity gap. An accompanying economic white paper shows the link between productivity gains and investment in information and communication technology ICT. In...
Tags: Telstra Corp., Mobile, Productivity Improvement, Productivity, Video-conferencing, Information And Communication Technology, Term, Organization, Take-out, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Management, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-02-03
Operations Research: The Productivity Engine
A key focus for management is determining steps that can achieve Productivity Gain - and doing it before the competition. A valuable tool in this quest is Operations Research (O.R.), a field devoted to the creation and management of productivity gain. Operations researchers identify ways to achieve high levels of...
Tags: Researcher, Institute For Operations Research, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-08-23
Productivity Measurement And Monetary Policymaking During The 1990s
The acceleration of productivity growth during the latter half of the 1990s was both the defining economic event of the decade and a major topic of debate among Federal Reserve policymakers. A key aspect of the debate was the conflict between incoming aggregate data, which initially suggested little productivity gain,...
Tags: Acceleration, Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2005-10-01
Business reengineering: the ultimate productivity gain
"The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the world is to raise the productivity of knowledge and service workers. This challenge, which will dominate the management agenda for the next several decades, will ultimately determine the competitive performance of companies. Even more important, it will determine...
Tags: FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., IBM Corp., re-engineering
Research articles 1993-09-01
Best performers know the value of IT.(In perspective)
U.S. manufacturing productivity grew an average 4.4 percent per year from 1995-2005. In fact, productivity gain registered 7.5 percent in 2002, 5.2 percent in 2003, and 5.3 percent in 2004. This is a remarkable achievement, as it indicates productivity growth at nearly twice that of the...
Tags: AMR Research, Manufacturing, SOFTWARE, Strategy, VP
Research articles 2006-04-01
Monitor Real Estate Can Be Key to Getting More Done
Can your IT department order productivity and have it arrive a week later in a box? A study by the University of Utah, commissioned by display maker NEC, says yes. Upping your team's task productivity by as much as 52 percent, they say, is as easy as investing in larger...
Tags: Flat Panel, Team, Monitor, University Of Utah, Monitors & Displays, Team Management, Productivity, Hardware, Components, Management, Jeff Palfini
Blog posts 2008-03-11
Improving Productivity
It is easy to blame poor productivity on external factors. There are more distractions than ever, customers' and colleagues' expectations for speedy actions have increased, and the amount of information available is immense.Productivity comes down to what we pay attention to and how we manage our time; some people manage...
Tags: Action, Productivity, BNET Editorial, E-mail, News, Task, Barrier, Online Communications, Team Management
Articles 2007-11-05
THE PRODUCTIVITY MYTH.(productivity growth relative to GDP is not above average)(Brief Article)
CLOSE EXAMINATION SHOWS RATES ARE JUST AVERAGE. The decline in real growth from 5.6% last quarter to an estimated 2.5% in the second half of this year will be reflected in a sharp slowdown in productivity gains from recent superheated levels. However, the larger...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, productivity
Research articles 2000-10-16
How to Gain Business Productivity With Digital Print on Demand
In a business climate focused on improving organizational efficiencies and reducing costs, many companies are overlooking a significant cost-savings opportunity: the creation, management, production and distribution of business communications - an expense that can amount to as much as six to fifteen percent of annual revenues for most corporations. This...
Tags: Business Productivity, Cost Savings, Mimeo, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2006-03-12
Silicon Storage Appliance and MidStream Technologies combination delivers more than 450 simultaneous DVD-quality streams in recent tests; Allows cable operators and video service providers to gain increased productivity and lower operating cost with small
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 September 2002-DATADIRECT NETWORKS: Silicon Storage Appliance and MidStream Technologies combination delivers more than 450 simultaneous DVD-quality streams in recent tests; Allows cable operators and video service providers to gain increased productivity and lower operating cost with small footprint C1994-2002 M2...
Tags: Datadirect Networks Inc.
Research articles 2002-09-23
How General Mills Is Beating Rivals on Commodity Price Hikes
I eat a heaping bowl of Cheerios just about every morning, so I bring home a box just about every week. Until lately, I've been faced with a problem â€" the box was so big I couldn’t fit it on the shelf of my cabinet. That has...
Tags: Dan Mitchell, Sales, Marketing, Branding, Manufacturing, Sales Force Management, Food & Beverage, Sales Strategy, Cereal Business, Price, General Mills Inc.
Blog posts 2008-03-21
How General Mills Is Beating Rivals on Commodity Price Hikes
I eat a heaping bowl of Cheerios just about every morning, so I bring home a box just about every week. Until lately, I've been faced with a problem â€" the box was so big I couldn’t fit it on the shelf of my cabinet. That has...
Tags: Commodity Price, General Mills Inc., Cereal Business, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Sales Force Management, Branding, Sales, Manufacturing, Marketing, Dan Mitchell
Blog posts 2008-03-21
Bruce Lee's 5 Rules for Personal Productivity
Famed martial artist and actor Bruce Lee was undoubtedly an icon and a trailblazer. But did you know he was also a personal productivity guru? Well, maybe not exactly. But The Positivity Blog notes that several of his fundamental beliefs for life can translate pretty well into...
Tags: Productivity, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-05-15
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