Strategic Productivity

During this four-day business course, you will delve into the intricacies of strategic productivity, exploring frameworks, tools, and industry case studies which will empower you to identify the strategies needed to advance your organisation's efficiency. You will explore five core pillars of productivity – access to finance, innovation and digital, worker skills and well-being, leadership and management, marketing and communication – to help you future-proof your business. Course lead, Bart Van Ark, is a Professor of Productivity Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School and is also the Managing Director of The Productivity Institute, a UK-wide organisation which aims to lay the foundations for an era of sustained and inclusive productivity growth by bringing together academic research, policy studies, and business engagement. Between 2008 and 2022, Bart was Chief Economist at The Conference Board, a global business research organisation headquartered in New York, where he worked with dozens of global companies on business strategy related to (global) economic trends, labour markets and human capital, technology and innovation, and productivity. Bart is an internationally acclaimed economist in the field of international comparative productivity measurement, and his research has cut across the areas of economic growth, international economics and business, development economics, and economic history. Delivered face-to-face in the UK at Alliance Manchester Business School’s Executive Education Centre, Strategic Productivity involves a range of interactive learning styles that connect theory with practice. You will hear from leading industry experts, network with a variety of business leaders, and work with other delegates to apply core aspects of the course to your organisation. Throughout the course, you will take part in a productivity-driven project and present your work to the group on the final day, where you will gain insightful feedback from your peers on how you can implement your learnings back into your organisation. Upon successful completion of this short business course, participants will be awarded the Manchester Professional Certificate in Strategic Productivity and can work towards being awarded the Manchester Professional Diploma in Leadership by completing any four of our four-day short business courses from our extensive portfolio.