Productivity Series

Improving Australia's Productivity Scorecard -The Levers for Change Series (NSW)

The new CEDA series, Improving Australia's Productivity Scorecard will examine the issues vital to economic reform in a context of a larger and ageing population, climate change, and the current constrained fiscal environment.

Robust productivity growth is intrinsically linked to Australia's long-term economic prosperity and associated with high living standards. However Australia's productivity levels have fallen to their second lowest level in 15 years, and the enviable days of the early 90s stimulated by strong reform and technological advancement are gone. To prosper in this century, Australia needs to address its productivity fall.

This series will explore a range of productivity issues from barriers, changes required, public and private reform, getting the right mix of people, practice and place, and best practice for business.

Productivity will be a key item explored nationally by CEDA in 2012, with events held in March, May, September and November.

Productivity Series Part 2: Movers and Shakers
22 May 2012

This series is sponsored by:

Queensland Productivity Series

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that over the past 10 years, Australia's productivity levels have decreased by 2.1 per cent. There is no doubt that improving Australia's productivity is the most important economic issue to be addressed in the year ahead.

The Queensland Productivity Series investigates the impact of Australia's declining productivity on economic development and the opportunities to improve our productivity.

This series, as well as CEDA's research focus on productivity, has been driven by CEDA's annual survey of Australian business leaders, CEDA's Economic and Political Overview, the most recent COAG Reform Council report, and statements and studies from across the country.

The series program investigates those factors essential to improving productivity:

Managing the economic growth of the commodities boom;
Reforms to enhance Australia's economic flexibility and capacity;
Delivering timely infrastructure;
Balance international uncertainty; and
The potential of, and barriers to, performance boosting and innovation.

These complex factors that contribute to productivity must be well considered. Some argue the short-term future promises a resources-led turnaround, others that the resources boom contributes to complacency: providing a barrier to genuine reform and recovery.

The three part series, to run over 12 months, will include a public event keynote address, a public event expert panel presentation and a CEDA trustee boardroom briefing discussion. CEDA members and guests will hear from expert researchers, commentators and business leaders and participate in the productivity debate.

The three series topics will be:

Productivity: critical reforms

Stretching across sectors - manufacturing, higher education and energy - to look at proposals and undertake critical reforms to innovate, reduce the regulatory burden and push productivity.
(Expert panel presentation format)

Productivity: leading recovery

A keynote overview of the productivity outlook which covers the significant onshore and external influences and the short and long term implications of a recovery led by resources.
(Keynote address format)

Productivity: performance and innovation

Bringing leaders to the table to consider recent research and insights into Australian business's organisational and workforce capacity to boost performance.
(Boardroom briefing format)

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The CEDA Queensland productivity series in 2012-2013 provides opportunities for CEDA member organisations to profile their organisation, highlight their expertise and their organisations critical contribution to this important topic

For information on sponsorship opportunities in Queensland contact Cate Allen-Ducat, Associate Director, CEDA Queensland. cate.allen-ducat@ceda.com.au.

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