The Victorian Division held a very successful panel lunch in Melbourne on June 7 on the subject of "Improving Corporate Productivity". Four panel members from corporate Australia, the trade union movement, government and consulting spoke on a range of issues before a large audience at the Hotel Sofitel.
The panel was made up of
Rod Maddock, currently a senior Commonwealth Bank executive and former chief economist and productivity expert with the Business Council of Australia
Dean Parham, Assistant Commissioner, Productivity Commission.
Jean Thevelin, President – Asia Pacific, Proudfoot Consulting
Grant Belchamber, Senior Research Officer, Australian Council of Trade Unions.
They discussed issues such as
• How can a company improve its productivity?
• How productivity improvements translate into increased sales and profits.
• How productivity improvements benefit all stakeholders – shareholders, senior management, employees at all levels, and the nation as a whole.
• What are the impediments to productivity improvements?
• Whether productivity, in Australia today, is a dirty word.
Speakers were allotted five to seven minutes to speak.
As Jean Thevelin of Proudfoot Consulting remarked, this was twice as long as the time taken by Abraham Lincoln to deliver the Gettysburg address.
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