Executive Thought Leadership

Net Impact: Public Sector, Germany

Productivity is a deep-rooted and frequently discussed concept by both corporate and political leaders. In recent years productivity has become a leading economic statistic and figures prominently in decisions about interest rates, wages and fiscal policy. As a result, productivity numbers are used at the macro-level for GDP estimates and as an input to many government programmes.

For organizations, however, productivity is a mirco-level issue. Productivity improvements come from small incremental innovations in specific business functions such as sales, marketing and finance. But which ones? What are the key areas of investment and best practices for an organization to effect improvement in their own efficiency? In an attempt to answer these questions, Cisco sponsored Net Impact Public Sector: Driving Networked Business Productivity, a study of organizational productivity conducted by Momentum Research Group.