UK Policing Productivity Review

The UK Home Office commissioned the National Police Chiefs’ Council to: – review police productivity, – provide recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness in policing.   The results are contained in this report: – Policing Productivity Review, Nov. 2023

McKinsey Report on US productivity

Boosting US productivity represents a $10 trillion opportunity in US GDP between now and 2030 Since 2005, US labor productivity has grown at a lackluster 1.4 percent annually. At the same time, real wages have slowed and workforce participation has declined. Regaining the long-term productivity growth rate of 2.2 percent would help the country confront…

Elon Musk 6 rules for productivity

Elon Musk sent an email to the staff at Tesla with his 6 rules for productivity. Unsurprisingly, it leaked. Here they are: 1) Avoid large meetings Large meetings waste valuable time and energy. – They discourage debate – People are more guarded than open – There’s not enough time for everyone to contribute Don’t schedule…

Online Support: customer survey

In today’s business climate, providing online support is more important than ever. According to a recent survey, only 10% of customers prefer telephone support to online support. But 45% of companies that offer self-help to their customers achieve an increase in online support visits and a reduction in telephone inquiries. At REGENERING, we always ask…

2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant According to Gartner, “The data integration tool market continues to mature, with increased focus on big data integration, cloud data integration, streaming data integration and operationalizing data lakes. Data integration tool vendors must address new deployment models, data types and requirements to remain competitive.” In other words, the data integration tool…

Berlin’s Confounding Productivity Gap

“The researchers found that two factors have the biggest effect on a region’s success (read, high productivity per worker): the younger and more educated its population, the higher the productivity. Other factors, such as population density and proximity to other economically dynamic regions, proved far less important.” Source

Higher wages key to higher productivity

“In fact, one of the greatest capitalist entrepreneurs of all time, Henry Ford, instinctively grasped this truth when he famously declared, “There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. It is not the employer who pays…