Since the first industrial revolution, improving productivity has been a major goal for most manufacturing operations. Today, in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, that hasn’t changed.

Productivity is a central concept in measuring economic performance. Numerous types of productivity measures can apply to a tremendous range of activities from the productivity of an individual ...

The final metrics I'll address in this series are for productivity. This is a slippery slope. Frankly, I can count on one hand the plants I've seen with an effective measure over the last 10 years.

At a time when top managers can instantly drill down to any level of data about their finances, sales, customer relationships, supply chain and other functions, one crucial set of data still exists in ...

Productivity measures the ratio of output to input. Small-business owners are concerned with productivity because it ties into operational efficiency and profitability. Productivity measurement can be ...

Over the past three decades, billions of dollars have been spent by companies on technology to increase the productivity of knowledge workers through process automation, communication and other ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Manufacturing accounts for a tenth of US employment, but more than two-thirds of corporate patents and R&D ...