Akbar Jaffari, PhD (LSE) Chief Executive – JAFCON Consultants Bahrain Society of Engineers (BSE) October 8th, 2013

1. Productivity for
Prosperity
8th October 2013
JAFCON Consultants for Productivity Improvement
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2. 2
1. The Important Criteria
2. The Important Indicator
3. The Important Achievement
Productivity
To every change or development process

3. 3
The relationship between the output generated by
a process / production or service system and the
input required to create this output.
Mathematical Term
Output x 100
Input
Efficiency Doing the job right
Effectiveness Doing the right job
Not Production

4. 4
 Manpower
 Capital
 Machinery
 Material
 Plants
 Land & Building
Hard Factors
(Tangible)Traditional
 Technology
 Information
 Organisation &
Systems
 Management Style
Soft Factors
(Intangible)
Last 50 years
Future  Mind Power
 Intuitive Energy
 Cyber Power
Micro
Factors
Has Started

5. 5
Financial
Resources
16%
20%
Infrastructure
Human
Resources
64%
Organizations

6. 6
Economic Growth
Social Growth
Political Stability

7. ENTROPY
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• Universal phenomenon
• Moving in opposite direction of life
• destroy life and everything in it, slowly
and gradually
Negative energy

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Either improve or pace entropy and decay
The most important reason for Productivity
Improvement is to combat Entropy.
Hence, continuous improvement.
continuous change.
There is no nil (zero) effect in Productivity
Improvement.

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72% - Non Value added activities
20% - Activities require improvement
8% - Activities carried out with precision
100%
72% To be Removed
20% To be Improved
8% To be Sustained

10. 10
Believe
Tradition
Culture
FearSecurity
Guardship
Complacency
Acting on Improvement requires less
effort than guarding the status quo.

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(Stage)
(Time)
Complacency
Excellence
Poor
Performance
DeteriorationEffort
Growth●
●
Poor
Performance
●
●
●
●
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However, we can
stop both
Are very effective
When we reach ultimate satisfaction
Then laziness

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Human being continue living through:
• Renewal of 300 million cells per minute
• Renewal of the stomach layer every 5 days
• Renewal of skin every 28 days
• Renewal of skeleton every 3 months
• Renewal of the body completely every 7 years
Increases entropy
Without these renewals,
humans couldn't survive
Inactivity and negligence
Reduces entropyRenewing and changing

14. 14
0
0
0
Time
Achievement
Change of starting point

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100% Employees
4%
Top Mgt.
9% Middle Mgt.
74% Skilled Employees

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30% Employees
100%
Top Mgt.
80% Middle Mgt.
50% Skilled Employees

17. 17
Employees
Management Skilled Employees
Top Management

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 Productivity – win-win to everyone
 Productivity is for Prosperity

19. THANK YOU
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