The UFA awarded him an honorary life membership, and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker appointed him to the National Productivity Council, though ill health prevented him from participating after its inaugural March 1961 meeting.

In August 2009, Forbes Magazine and the Center for College Affordability & Productivity ( CCAP ) published its annual college rankings list of America's Best Colleges.

Productivity growth is important to the firm because more real income means that the firm can meet its ( perhaps growing ) obligations to customers, suppliers, workers, shareholders, and governments ( taxes and regulation ), and still remain competitive or even improve its competitiveness in the market place.

Productivity growth is important to the firm because it means that it can meet its ( perhaps growing ) obligations to workers, shareholders, and governments ( taxes and regulation ), and still remain competitive or even improve its competitiveness in the market place.

The Houston-based American Productivity and Quality Center has touted SNL for its individualized education of adult students.

Forbes magazine, which began publishing an annual list in 2008, prepared by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity of " America's Best Colleges " uses the list of alumni published in Who's Who in America, student evaluations from RateMyProfessors. com, self-reported salaries of alumni from PayScale, four-year graduation rates, numbers of students and faculty receiving " nationally competitive awards ," and four-year accumulated student debt to calculate the rankings, places NIU as number 595 on its list.

Technology Growth and Efficiency are regarded as two of the biggest sub-sections of Total Factor Productivity, the former possessing " special " inherent features such as positive externalities and non-rivalness which enhance its position as a driver of economic growth.

NDDB launched its Perspective Plan 2010 with four thrust areas: Quality Assurance, Productivity Enhancement, Institution Building and National Information Network.

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.

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.

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

Notably, pursuant to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ( FSP Index ) released by the Academic Analytics organization of Stony Brook, NY, SDSU is the number one small research university in the United States as of the last four ( 4 ) academic years, from 2005-2006 through the 2009-2010 academic years.

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.

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

Productivity increased although at the same time unemployment rates rose as well.

At that time he also assumed the Chairmanship of President Nixon ’ s National Commission on Productivity and was appointed U. S. Chairman of the U. S .– Soviet Commercial Commission.

* The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987, signed into law on August 20, 1987, was developed through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee, chaired by Jack Grayson.

The nonprofit research organization APQC, founded by Grayson, organized the first White House Conference on Productivity, spearheading the creation of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1987.

After completing his military service as a lecturer in International Law at the Republic of Korea Naval Academy, he went on to do a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) in 1983, and received his doctorate from SAIS in 1987 (" Political Economy of Foreign Investment and Productivity: A Historical Observation and Industry-Specific Case Studies ").

* Shigeo Shingo: The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo: Key Strategies for Plant Improvement, Productivity Press, 1987, ISBN 0-915299-15-1