When the Tories were in power, they made hospitals compete for business and thus pushed up health-service productivity.
Health-service productivity, which had risen in the previous five years, plummeted.
When I sat face to face with Derek Wanless in 2002, what impressed me was the clarity of thinking about the long-term issues of health service productivity and demand.
So, as manufacturing productivity increases faster than service productivity wages in general rise: yet the amount of labour that is embedded in manufactures is decreasing faster than that embedded in services.
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But service productivity growth defies conventional thinking.
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As a result, the ratio of output to input for those final-goods producers, which is to say their productivity, would be higher: it would reflect the unmeasured improvement in service-supplier productivity after all.
Eventually, someone will be willing to pay because employees feel the service is driving productivity.
First of all, there is a subscription service for learning and productivity tools.
The first is administrative, by which new entrants to the health-management business would apply techniques that have boosted productivity in service industries.
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The supply of cheap agricultural labour dries up and a rising number of workers take jobs in the service sector, where productivity improvements are more difficult to achieve.
Brazil is also becoming more of a service economy, so productivity overall will fall because services and raw commodities are not areas requiring massive investment and productivity, especially in the services sector.
It suggests that productivity in financial service and logistics sectors is also low and needs to be raiseed.
Reconciliation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new-economy position.
But if manufacturing productivity is better than was thought, the study says, the flipside is that productivity in the service sector must be much worse.
It is surely no accident that productivity growth in European service industries has lagged that in manufacturing.
There is little competition, and therefore low productivity, in the service sector.
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In parallel, participants receive training to develop life skills and productivity accredited by the National Training Service (SENA).
In such cases, providing the same or more service with a smaller work force represents the productivity increases that raise our stand of living.
But what about other productivity black holes like Sales, Customer Service, and Product Development?
RescueTime, a Seattle-based company, provides nearly the same functionality as DeskTime while marketing itself as a personal productivity tool rather than an employee tracking service.
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Webster says he's seen a number of productivity applications, such as a shopping service that scans bar codes with the phone's camera and supplies comparative pricing, product reviews and local store information.
Besides productivity gains, notebooks can improve customer service by allowing workers to provide instant answers to questions in the field, and also make it easier for workers to switch from one office to another at a moment's notice.
Ms Mann concludes that if IT software sees falls in prices, thanks to globalisation, similar to those that IT hardware has seen, then the second wave of productivity gains notably in the service sector could be greater than the first, which was based mainly on manufacturing.
Economy-wide productivity gains reflect relatively modest improvements in the service sector together with much larger improvements in manufacturing.
Organizations that measure and reward people by results, rather than hours, benefit from higher productivity, more motivated workers, better customer service and lower costs.
But as well as reducing demands on the state, we can and will increase the productivity of the state - through proper public service reform.
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This leads to higher productivity and earnings, enabling people to purchase the service.
Google Talk (which I prefer to call g-chat) is the instant messaging service that accompanies Gmail and is singlehandedly responsible for decreasing workplace productivity by 5 to 50 percent.
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