In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

* Software Development Magazine Productivity Award for After the Gold Rush ( 2000 )

* Software Development Magazine Productivity Award for ESTIMATE Professional estimation software ( 1999 )

Most Australian think tanks are based at universities – for example, the Melbourne Institute – or are government funded – for example, the Productivity Commission or the CSIRO.

Hiram's ranking in Americas Best Colleges 2010 produced by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity is 166 out of all colleges and universities.

In 1982, Deming, as author, had his book published by the MIT Center for Advanced Engineering as Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position, which was renamed Out of the Crisis in 1986.

In 1990, during his last year, he founded the W. Edwards Deming for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School to promote operational excellence in business through the development of research, best practices and strategic planning.

* Brandeis University was ranked No. 21 among the top 25 national universities in the country, according to recently released rankings by the Center for College Affordability & Productivity ( CCAP ), an independent, not-for-profit center based in Washington, D. C.

Bishwanath Goldar in his paper ‘ Import Substitution, Industrial Concentration and Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing ’ writes: " Earlier studies on productivity for the industrial sector of developing countries have indicated that increases in total factor productivity, ( TFP ) are an important source of industrial growth ," ( Goldar 143 ).

* Productivity improved for database administrators, application programmers, and systems administrators

Currently the campus offers courses and training for Management Skills, Business Productivity Skills, Language Training, Manufacturing / Construction Skills, and Computer / IT Training.

Software Configuration Management, Coordination for Team Productivity.

* Forbes magazine ranked Tulane 58th overall in a study conducted by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

This approach was first documented outside of IBM by H. James Harrington while at Ernst & Young and then in Harrington ’ s 1991 book entitled Business Process Improvement – the Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness published by McGraw-Hill.

In computing, Interactive System Productivity Facility ( ISPF ) is a software product for the z / OS operating system that runs on IBM mainframes.

Originally this stood for Structured Programming Facility, since it was introduced about the same time as structured programming concepts, but later the name was changed to System Productivity Facility.

* Ohno, Taiichi ( 1988 ), Just-In-Time for Today and Tomorrow, Productivity Press, ISBN 0-915299-20-8

Taking the G7 and other largest economies, Jorgenson and Vu conclude: ‘ the growth of world output between input growth and productivity … input growth greatly predominated … Productivity growth accounted for only one-fifth of the total during 1989-1995, while input growth accounted for almost four-fifths.

* High Productivity Computing Systems: project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2007 to 2010 timeframe

Since 2008 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School.

BC placed 26th ( 14th among Research Universities ) in a ranking of national universities ( published in Forbes Magazine ) by the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, a research group in Washington, D. C. that used data from ratemyprofessors. com among other sources.

* 1990 Goddard Award for Quality and Productivity to Space and Technology Group

* Personal Productivity Improvement-knowledge fairs and one-on-one training sessions to help each employee make more effective personal use of the knowledge, learning, and technology resources available in the context of their work

The CSCMP has adopted The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework < sup > SM </ sup > a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Meanwhile, Sierra announced another reorganization, this time into three business units: Core Games, Casual Entertainment, and Home Productivity.

The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework ( PCF ) SM is a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Only 39 % of the public believes the HST would be beneficial for businesses whereas the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress found costs will decrease for small business as they recover sales taxes they have to pay on goods and services they purchase and will lower their administrative costs.

Productivity is one of the main concerns of business management and engineering.

Similar in many respects to traditional business use of P & L ( Profit and Loss ) and Productivity Evaluation and Tracking products and software.

Productivity is something of an amorphous concept and the amount of productivity increase in a given time period is not even well known to the industry, much less to the union or to the public.

In terms of productivity, WSU plant sciences faculty rank No. 2 in the nation, animal sciences faculty rank fourth, and food science faculty rank 6th according to Academic Analytics ' 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.

Productivity is created in the real process, productivity gains are distributed in the income distribution process and these two processes constitute the production process.

The OECD publishes an annual Compendium of Productivity Indicators that includes both labor and multi-factor measures of productivity.

Another labour productivity measure output per worker is often seen as a proper measure of labour productivity like here “ Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.

* Productivity and Costs – Bureau of Labor Statistics United States Department of Labor: contains international comparisons of productivity rates, historical and present

Allen has written three books, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, which describes his productivity program, Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life, a collection of newsletter articles he has written, and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life, a follow-up to

This shows the productivity of an ecosystem with its inhabitants .. Productivity within the ecosystem cannot come to fruition unless the forest is sustainable enough to be harvested.

Productivity is considered a key source of economic growth and competitiveness and, as such, is basic statistical information for many international comparisons and country performance assessments.

Due to the in-depth nature of its analysis and influence over government policy, the Productivity Commission is often a useful starting point for information on the Australian economy or specific Australian industries.

I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.

Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

Students testify to a felt need for a religious faith or ultimate personal philosophy.

At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.

He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Under this program, property sales specialists in the Small Business Administration regional offices help small business concerns to locate Federal property for sale and insure that small firms have the opportunity to bid competitively for surplus personal and real property and certain natural resources, including timber from the national forests.

It is a matter of deep personal satisfaction for me to add my voice to the great and distinguished chorus of my colleagues in this paean of praise, respect, and affection for Speaker Sam Rayburn.

Using privately-owned vehicles was a personal hardship for such employees, and the matter of providing state transportation was felt perfectly justifiable.

It also provides for the taxation of all personal property, belonging to inhabitants of the state, both tangible and intangible, and the tangible personal property of non-residents in this state.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

It would seem, then, that movable property and equipment is not taxed as a whole but that certain types are taxed in towns where this is bound to be expedient for that particular kind of personal property.