APO Asian Productivity Organization

by K.V.R. Raju

• Making Food Safety a Mass Movement: Overview of Challenges for Developing Countries

by S.A. Khader

• Reforming public services: Lessons from India, July, 2006

by Mah Lok Abdullah

• The imperatives for Enhancing Global Competitiveness, Jan. 2006
• Productivity Improvement in the Service Sector, Jan. 2005

by Dr. Manuel S.J. de Leon

• Will Rice Be Life?, Dec. 2004

by Robert J. Osterhoff

• APO Hosts First Baldridge Study Mission, Nov. 2004

by Lee Suan Hiang

• Success is Spelled With 4Cs, Oct. 2004

by Dr. Hiwhoa Moon

• A Strategy for Economic Growth and Higher Productivity in East Asian Economies, Sept. 2004
• Macroeconomic Policies for Higher Productivity in Asia, Aug. 2004

by Mr. S. K. Chan

• Providing Consultancy Services: A Must Role for NPOs – Part II, Oct. 2001
• Providing Consultancy Services: A Must Role for NPOs – Part I, Sept. 2001
• Towards Sustainable Productivity Development, May 2001
• Sustainable Productivity Development, Feb. 2001

by Dewan Zakir Hussain — Bangladesh

• Productivity issues and challenges in Bangladesh

by Chea Sieng Hong — Cambodia

• Initial Stage of the Productivity Movement in Cambodia

by Chang Pao-cheng — ROC

• Innovation Management: Enterprise Culture and Ultimate Competitiveness

by Jone Usamate — Fiji

• Enhancing the Manpower Capability of Fiji

by Shri N.C. Vasudevan — India

• Overview of the NPC

by Abdul Wahab Bangkona — Indonesia

• Productivity as a stimulus of national economic growth and competitiveness of the Indonesian economy

by Tsuneaki Taniguchi — Japan

• The Productivity Movement in Japan

by Dr. Dong Kyu Choi — Republic of Korea

• The Human-Centered Productivity Campaign

by Dato’ Nik Zainiah Nik Abdul Rahman — Malaysia

• Leadership for National Development

by Tariq Bajwa — Pakistan

• Pakistan's Journey to Industrial Competitiveness

by Antonio D. Kalaw, Jr. — Philippines

• Improving Philippine Public-sector Productivity for Performance Excellence

by Loh Khum Yean — Singapore

• Growing Competitive Movement and Innovative Enterprises

by Mahinda Madihahewa — Sri Lanka

• NPS targeting households in 2010

by Dr. Phanit Laosirirat — Thailand

• Productivity Roles in the Financial Crisis

by Kim Sbarcea

• Overview of Two Knowledge Management Frameworks, April 2010

by Richard Barton

• Improving Profitability Through People and Organizational Excellence, June 2008
• Business Excellence Frameworks as the No.1 Productivity Improvement Tool, October 2007
• Teamwork, Leadership, and Productivity, May 2007
• Improving Productivity Through Better Sales and Sales Management: Part 2, February 2007
• Improving Productivity Through Better Sales and Sales Management: Part 1, August 2006
• Productivity Watch, April 2006
• The Productivity Movement in Australia, November 2005
• Productivity and Labor Relations: an Evolutionary Change, August 2005
• Productivity Watch, April 2005
• Customer Service in the Public Sector (Part 2) , April 2004
• Customer Service in the Public Sector (Part 1) , December 2003
• SMEs, July 2003
• Productivity Improvement Scorecard and Challenges Ahead for Australia, April 2003
• The Power of Business Process Management, January 2003
• Mauritius joins the productivity journey, September 2002
• Business Process Re-engineering: An Aussie Case Study, June 2002
• From 5S to Six Sigma: A Report on Mongolia, Feb. 2002
• Customer Relationship Management, Dec. 2001
• Post Olympics – Future Focus, July 2001
• Small Business in Australia: The Engine for Employment Growth, Jan. 2001
• Olympic Gold for Aussie Business, Oct. 2000
• New Century Leadership, June 2000
• A Decade of Change in the Australian Workplace, Jan. 2000
• Productivity Watch, Oct. 1999

by Robert J. Osterhoff and Dr. Boondee Bunyagidj

• Knowledge management: Evolution from theory to practice, July 2010

by David Lennarz

• Exporting food, beverages, or dietary supplements to the USA? Pay close attention to product labeling requirements, June 2010

by Michael Manson

• What's in a number?, October 2009
• A Modern “Whodunit”?, June 2009
• Productivity: Getting the Context Right, February 2009
• Productivity with Equity, July 2008
• Pains of Realignment, March 2008
• Running at Half Speed, September 2007
• Immigration: What is America to do?, June 2006
• Broken Promises , February 2006
• A Philosophy of Productivity, October 2005
• The Angst of Ownership, June 2005
• A Revolutionary Idea, Feb. 2005
• Uncharted Waters, May 2004
• The Promise of Productivity, January 2004
• e-World Revisited, September 2003
• Anatomy of the American Worker, June 2003
• Navigating the Soft Spot, February 2003
• Second, follow all the rules, November 2002
• p-Watch USA, August 2002
• The US Economy: The Good Amid the Bad, April 2002
• Footsteps of Change, Nov. 2001
• Productivity: A Starlet's Unrevealing Nature, April 2001
• The Saving Graces of Productivity, Nov. 2000
• Productivity: Too Much of Good Things?, Aug. 2000
• E-Commerce: Productivity's Best Friend, Feb. 2000
• The Technology-Productivity Interface, Nov. 1999

by A. C. Hubert

• Low-carbon Productivity, February 2010
• France's agile ANACT, August 2009
• The Netherland's Social Innovation, April 2009
• Austria's productivity successor body: WIFI, September 2008
• The Luxembourg Productivity Centre: 50 years old, December 2007
• Italy's Veneto Productivity Centre, July 2007
• The Slovak Productivity Center, April 2007
• The Turkish Productivity Center, November 2006
• The Cyprus Productivity Centre, May 2006
• The "Finnish Productivity Centre", December 2005
• Germany's Productivity Center in 2005, September 2005
• Productivity and the Press, May 2005
• Quo vadis European productivity?, June 2004
• Protectionism and Productivity, February 2004
• Attitudes Toward Work and Productivity, November 2003
• Welfare versus Productivity, August 2003
• Oldies' Productivity, May 2003
• Eastern Europe's productivity challenges, December 2002
• Productivity or profits, October 2002
• European business productivity today, July 2002
• The Euro and Productivity, May 2002
• Improving National Performance, Jan. 2002
• Government's Role, Aug. 2001
• Competition - Driving Force for Productivity Increase, March 2001
• Permanence and Flexibility, Dec. 2000
• Lessons from Small European Countries, Sept. 2000
• Productivity Watch , May 2000

Short columns to introduce the major productivity methodologies, tools, and techniques taught in the APO Development of Productivity Practitioners: Basic Program, and Advanced Program. These articles are contributed by the course trainers to help readers understand the basic concepts and selected topics from the course curricula.

• Employee involvement through quality circles
• Green Productivity
• Cultivation of positive work attitudes through 5S
• Harnessing collective wisdom through employee suggestion schemes
• Understanding Six Sigma and DMAIC methodology (Part I)
• Understanding Six Sigma and DMAIC methodology (Part II)
• Benchmarking: Capturing best practices or breakthrough improvements
• Lean Management
• The Balanced Scorecard
• Work sampling
• Workplace cooperation and labor management councils
• Gearing up employees for corporate competitiveness through structured on-the-job training
• Just-in-time
• Value engineering
• Productivity assessment survey featuring value-added productivity measurement
• Business process reengineering
• Supply chain management
• Synopsis of the APO's Toyota Production System projects
• Business excellence framework
• Making distance disappear: training via videoconference
• Increasing productivity through reducing “seven wastes” in operations
• Creating value through service innovation
• Small things matter for megawatts of savings