TY  - GEN
TI  - Productivity in the new millennium : : enhancing competitiveness through people and value creation
KW  - Industrial productivity
KW  - Asia
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Labor productivity
KW  - Capital productivity
KW  - Competition, International
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Technological innovations
N1  - International Productivity Conference 2001 proceedings, 2-4 October 2001; Inaugural address by the APO secretary-general -- Welcome address by Mr Lim Boon Heng, chairman, Asian Productivity Organization (APO) -- Keynote address by Guest-of-Honour, Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Minister for Health and Second minister for Finance, and Chairman of Singapore's National Innovation Council -- Plenary session I: Human capacities in the integral age: how value systems shape organizational productivity, national prosperity and global transformation -- Plenary session II on competitiveness -- Globalization and industrial competitiveness -- Concurrent session on competitiveness -- Session 1: Competitiveness: public and private sector partnership -- Session 2: Strategy for the recovery of the Japanese economy -- Session 3: Enhancing competitiveness in an It environment -- Session 4: Value creation in changing times -- Session 5: U.S. competitiveness and the lessons for the world -- Session 6: Breakthrough: key factors for competitiveness -- Plenary session III on people -- Session I: Competition through people in the new economy era - policy options -- Session 2: Partnership with communities for poverty reduction -- Session 3: The people factor in enhancing competitiveness - lessons from the SIA experience -- Session 4: People - our key to excellence -- Session 5: Innovating people at 3M -- Session 6: Half the population of the world cannot contribute their productivity -- Plenary session IV on value creation -- The new productivity, the new values, and the future 500 -- Concurrent session on value creation -- Session 1: Creating a world-class knowledge organization -- Session 2: Farmers productivity and value-chain improvement in food industry - reforming the food security strategy in Indonesia -- Session 3: Work force productivity in semiconductor manufacturing -- Session 4: Broadband revolution age of PUc - role of venture capitalists -- Session 5: The current condition of agriculture and agricultural policy in Japan and lessons for agriculture and the rural communities in Asian countries -- Session 6: Of genes and man - biomedical sciences in the 21st century -- Plenary session V: Natural capitalism: creating the next industrial revolution -- Closing keynote address -- Productivity in the new millennium - enhancing competitiveness through people and value creation
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