Organizations and Productivity

Someone once said that if a foreign invader confiscated part of our land we would be very angry: we would be deprived of resources and hence of our ability to generate wealth. But, do we get equally angry when we realize that we are making an inefficient use of our resources? Are we aware that tolerating low productivity is equivalent to tolerating expropriation of resources by a foreign power?

Performance improvement of both private and public organizations is a necessary condition for the modernization of our country and the improvement of its people´s standard of living. The growing poverty we observe around us is fundamentally a consequence of a null rate of growth in economic productivity. Reduction of poverty requires policies that allow private and public organizations the use of their resources in the most efficient way. In this regard, applying basic principles of efficiency, more than fashionable management recipes, is the key to success.

The University of CEMA and, in particular, its Center for the Study of Organizations and Productivity (CEOP) have the objective of promoting research, education, and training that help to improve the way organizations transform resources into goods and services.