Beyond Productivity

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Information Technology and Creativity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309168175

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Beyond Productivity by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Information Technology and Creativity Pdf

Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century. Those interactions, in turn, have contributed to the evolution of information technology â€" new forms of computing and communications, and new applications â€" that continue to develop from the creative interactions between computer science and other fields. Beyond Productivity argues that, at the beginning of the 21st century, information technology (IT) is forming a powerful alliance with creative practices in the arts and design to establish the exciting new, domain of information technology and creative practicesâ€"ITCP. There are major benefits to be gained from encouraging, supporting, and strategically investing in this domain.

Author : Kim Hensley Owens,Derek Van Ittersum
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646424870

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Beyond Productivity by Kim Hensley Owens,Derek Van Ittersum Pdf

In Beyond Productivity, a wide range of contributors share honest narratives of the sometimes-impossible conditions that scholars face when completing writing projects. The essays provide backstage views of the authors' varying approaches to moving forward when the desire to produce wanes, when deciding a project is not working, when working within and around and redefining academic productivity expectations, and when writing with ever-changing bodies that do not always function as expected. This collection positions scholarly writers' ways of writing as a form of flexible, evolving knowledge. By exhibiting what is lost and gained through successive rounds of transformation and adaptation over time, the contributors offer a sustainable understanding and practice of process—one that looks beyond productivity as the primary measure of success. Each presents a fluid understanding of the writing process, illustrating its deeply personal nature and revealing how fragmented and disjointed methods and experiences can highlight what is precious about writing. Beyond Productivity determines anew the use and value of scholarly writing and the processes that produce it, both within and beyond the context of the losses, constraints, and adaptations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Information Technology and Creativity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309088688

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Beyond Productivity by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Information Technology and Creativity Pdf

Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century. Those interactions, in turn, have contributed to the evolution of information technology â€" new forms of computing and communications, and new applications â€" that continue to develop from the creative interactions between computer science and other fields. Beyond Productivity argues that, at the beginning of the 21st century, information technology (IT) is forming a powerful alliance with creative practices in the arts and design to establish the exciting new, domain of information technology and creative practicesâ€"ITCP. There are major benefits to be gained from encouraging, supporting, and strategically investing in this domain.

Author : Antonio Costa de Oliveira,Camila Pegoraro,Vívian Ebeling Viana
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030375102

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The Future of Rice Demand: Quality Beyond Productivity by Antonio Costa de Oliveira,Camila Pegoraro,Vívian Ebeling Viana Pdf

This book aims to provide an overview of the challenges and available technologies to improve rice and provide a response to the challenge posed by increasing world population and the resultant food shortages. Nutritional aspects of rice products and omics and the molecular technologies currently being used are covered in depth. As a staple food for over 50% of the world ́s population, an estimated 9 billion people will need to be fed by 2050, and healthy and uncontaminated foods need to reach consumers in developed and developing countries.This makes quality beyond productivity incredibly important and is one of the overriding themes of this work. The Future of Rice Demand: Quality Beyond Productivity offers researchers a better understanding of the nutritional aspects of rice. Omics technologies applied to cereal grain quality have been scarce in the literature published to date, making this text an excellent single source for researchers in regions where rice is a major crop. The first section of the book focuses on the major aspects of the industrial processing of all rice types. Further sections look at contamination prevention and biofortification, special rice types, and omics and other molecular tools used in the mass production and processing of healthy rice products.

Author : Leslie Willcocks,Stephanie Lester
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015043104507

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Beyond the IT Productivity Paradox by Leslie Willcocks,Stephanie Lester Pdf

The 'IT Productivity Paradox' is the concept that, despite massive investment and resourcing by companies and organizations worldwide in their IT systems, there still seems to be little pay-off. Information systems can no longer be viewed as a support service for a business - information technology now has a lead role to play in the strategic planning processes of any organization. As we move further and further into a technology-based working environment, a critical question is how the value of IT can be measured and evaluated. This book brings together a group of the most eminent academic and practitioner thinkers in the area, to consolidate what we know about best IT evaluation practice in a comprehensive and integrated manner, and also provide new ways forward. The key to understanding the productivity paradox is the methods of IT measurement used. Improved measurement can not only reveal that IT has often been more productive than is believed, but can also focus in on ways in which benefits can be improved across the IT systems life-cycle. Critical areas where improved assessment is essential include development, and better risk analysis; sourcing, including IT outsourcing; and infrastructure, including transforming an organization's IT architecture. The authors also take a look at stakeholder interests as a part of the overall evaluation process. Contributors to this volume have been selected not only for their status in the IS field generally, but also for their reputation in the IT evaluation area. As this topic gains increasing prominence as IT expenditure continues to increase, this book will be an invaluable reference for academics and practitioners alike in the areas of information systems, IT evaluation and assessment and IT management.

Author : Sugeng Santoso
Publisher : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9786020347264

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Beyond Productivity by Sugeng Santoso Pdf

"""Buku penting yang kalau Anda baca dan praktikkan akan membuat Anda jadi lebih produktif dan jadi pemenang dalam game yang bernama kehidupan!"" --Tung Desem Waringin, Penulis Buku Terlaris Rekor MURI Financial Revolution dan Marketing Revolution ""When a computer is installed with good software, it runs well. When installed with faulty software, it gives problems and frustrations to the user. The same applies to people. This book attempts to install into the reader the right software--powerful and proven foundations to enjoy a lifetime of success. Read, install, apply."" --James Gwee, Indonesia's Favorite Seminar Speaker and Trainer; Author of 3 Consecutive National Best-Selling Books: Positive Business Ideas, Setiap Orang Sales Harus Baca Buku Ini, Setiap Manajer Harus Baca Buku Ini, dan Host of ""Live"" Talkshow in Radio Smart FM ""Buku yang sangat disarankan dan harus dibaca oleh Anda yang siap belajar dan berubah."" --Adi W. Gunawan, The Re-educator and Mind Navigator; Penulis Best-seller Quantum Life Transformations dan Quitters Can Win; www.adiwgunawan.com, www.quantum-hypnosis.com ""Saya bersama istri dan semua distributor kami sering mengikuti seminar dan pelatihan bisnis yang diselenggarakan Focal Point, di mana Sugeng Santoso mengabdi untuk masyarakat. Bagi masyarakat yang belum memiliki kesempatan mengikuti seminar dan pelatihan bisnis, buku ini sangat membantu. Ini adalah ""buku kerja"" yang dipersiapkan untuk siapa saja yang sedang berjuang mencapai kehidupan yang agung."" --Amal Alghozali dan Ida Sofiati, Direktur PT SMS Indoputra: Produses Pupuk Biologi Agrobost dan Golden Harrest; Peraih Penghargaan ""Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award 2009"" untuk Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards"

Author : Gregory G. Dess,Joseph C. Picken
Publisher : Amacom Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814404359

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Beyond Productivity by Gregory G. Dess,Joseph C. Picken Pdf

You've got the best employees available - all hand-picked for their knowledge, skills, and creativity. But do you know how to make the most of them? Do you know how to leverage this wealth of human capital - and make your people your most powerful competitive tool?

Author : Mark Thienes,Brian Brockhoff
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781627343046

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Speed of Purpose by Mark Thienes,Brian Brockhoff Pdf

Speed of Purpose delivers a powerful step-by-step process to achieve 2.8x productivity gains. This is a must-read, and must-implement, book for every aspiring top-performing team and organization! SPEED OF PURPOSE is launched with the three key Drivers of Purpose. These Drivers were developed through years of testing. Organizations were involved in measuring the impact of fully wrapping teams in Purpose as compared to the performance of those without Purpose. Each driver is brought to full speed by leveraging its three Accelerators. These nine Accelerators ultimately create the SPEED in SPEED OF PURPOSE. * SPEED OF PURPOSE has proven to be a productivity multiplier of 2.8X through significantly increased team engagement that spikes productivity and discretionary effort, leaving a sense of satisfaction. * SPEED OF PURPOSE is launched by first creating a clear and compelling Purpose, something people can believe in and devote their lives to. * SPEED OF PURPOSE is the most significant results improvement initiative any organization can undertake.

Author : Peter-Paul Banziger,Mischa Suter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315522753

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Histories of Productivity by Peter-Paul Banziger,Mischa Suter Pdf

Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of productivity by pursuing the perspective of body history and by providing a global scope. Throughout modernity, the body served as a fundamental, albeit essentially changing, linchpin for both the organization of economic practices and for intellectual reflections on the economy. In particular, it was the pivotal interface to render notions of economic productivity intelligible. The book explores this central thesis in a range of case studies, drawing on source material from West Africa, Europe, Mexico, and the US. Framed by a theoretically informed introduction, which also provides a conceptual history of notions of productivity, and by an afterword that brings the approaches explored in this volume into dialogue with scholarship inspired by Marx and Foucault, the individual chapters tackle the concept of productivity from a wide array of angles, each illuminating the promises and problems of a cultural take on the history of economic productivity.

Author : Jenny Odell
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593242728

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Saving Time by Jenny Odell Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire “One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don’t have time to spend? In order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people. This is why our lives, even in leisure, have come to seem like a series of moments to be bought, sold, and processed ever more efficiently. Odell shows us how our painful relationship to time is inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism. This dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book offers us different ways to experience time—inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales—that can bring within reach a more humane, responsive way of living. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding; the stretchy quality of waiting and desire; the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory; the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy; the time it takes to heal from injuries. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life in which time is not reducible to standardized units and instead forms the very medium of possibility. Saving Time tugs at the seams of reality as we know it—the way we experience time itself—and rearranges it, imagining a world not centered on work, the office clock, or the profit motive. If we can “save” time by imagining a life, identity, and source of meaning outside these things, time might also save us.

Author : Philip McCann,Tim Vorley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800374607

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Productivity and the Pandemic by Philip McCann,Tim Vorley Pdf

This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different aspects of how the pandemic is likely to impact on the economy, society and governance in the medium- and long-term. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, analytical arguments and new conceptual insights, the book challenges our thinking on many dimensions. With a keen focus on place, firms, production factors and institutions, the chapters highlight how the pre-existing challenges to productivity have been variously exacerbated and mitigated by the pandemic and points out ways forward for appropriate policy thinking in response to the crisis.

Author : Petter Østbø,Robin Cattermole,Mark Wetherill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349949489

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Leading Beyond Lean by Petter Østbø,Robin Cattermole,Mark Wetherill Pdf

Three practicing managers with years of experience improving production facilities around the world explain why lean methodology on its own often fails to deliver productivity gains and how a holistic package incorporating safety, employee development, business planning, capital spending, performance management, quality and lean work can together to deliver results. Improving productivity is the holy grail of every site manager. But while three decades of initiatives from Kaizen through TQM to Lean/Six Sigma have all had an impact, the fact remains that a few companies outperform the others. This is often because individual change initiatives address only one aspect of a much more complex problem. What is needed is a holistic productivity system that addresses every aspect of production. To implement a productivity system in practice, you need more than TQM, more that Lean. Based on their experience managing and improving production facilities around the world the authors show how there are seven key elements that combine to create a sustainable productivity system. Leading Beyond Lean explains how these seven elements work together, and how you can set up your own bespoke productivity system, like they did. As practising managers Østbø, Wetherill and Cattermole have used these techniques and procedures to deliver improvements in both in safety and productivity. Helping their sites to become more economically viable, evolving from "problem sites" with uncertain futures into vibrant sites that attract reinvestment and growth. They become cleaner, safer and better organised, and therefore more attractive places to work in. This book will help any company, any site manager, and any production director understand what is needed to set up a lasting productivity system, not in theory, but in practice – and to deliver outstanding results.

Author : IFIP Working Group 8.2,International Federation for Information Processing
Publisher : Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Publishing Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015006087145

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Author : Barbara Fraumeni
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128175972

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Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity by Barbara Fraumeni Pdf

Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions presents new insights into the causes, mechanisms and results of growth in national and regional accounts. It demonstrates the versatility and usefulness of the KLEMS databases, which generate internationally comparable industry-level data on outputs, inputs and productivity. By rethinking economic development beyond existing measurements, the book's contributors align the measurement of growth and productivity to contemporary global challenges, addressing the need for measurements as well as the Gross Domestic Product. All contributors in this foundational volume are recognized experts in their fields, all inspired by the path-breaking research of Dale W. Jorgenson. Demonstrates how an approach based on sources of economic growth (KLEMS – capital, labor, energy, materials and services) can be used to analyze economic growth and productivity Includes examples covering the G7, E7, EU, Latin America, Norway, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India and other South Asian countries Examines the effects of digital, information, communication and integrated technologies on national and regional economies

Author : Carey Nieuwhof
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735291362

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At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof Pdf

“A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.”—ADAM GRANT “Carey’s book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.”—SETH GODIN You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That’s the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar: ● Slammed is normal. ● Distractions are everywhere. ● Life gets reduced to going through the motions. Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow. Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you. At Your Best will help you ● replace chronic exhaustion with deep productivity ● break the pattern of overpromising and never accomplishing enough ● clarify what matters most by restructuring your day ● master the art of saying no, without losing friends or influence ● discover why vacations and sabbaticals don’t really solve your problems ● develop a personalized plan to recapture each day so you can break free from the trap of endless to-dos Start thriving at work and at home as you discover how to be at your best.