Strategic Productivity: Taking Your Business to Greater Heights
Join us for the next in-person event in our Executive Education Insight Series.
- Event Time
- 14 Feb 08:00 - 14 Feb 10:30
- Event Location
- Alliance Manchester Business School Executive Education Centre
Join Bart van Ark, Professor of Productivity Studies at AMBS and Managing Director of the Productivity Institute, as we discover what productivity means and how it can be managed.
What you'll learn
- Why productivity matters for business, the economy, and society
- How productivity can be made a strategic driver of business excellence
- The key drivers of strategic productivity: Innovation and digital, worker skills and well-being, leadership and management mobilising finance, and marketing and communication
- The role of business leaders in managing productivity and collaborating across the organisation.
The event will be facilitated by Kieran MacCourt, Head of Client Relations at AMBS. The session aims to bring the AMBS Alumni and Executive Education communities together.
Event agenda
This is an in-person only event which will not be recorded or streamed.
8:00-8:30am - Arrival, registration, and pastries
8:30-9:30am - Strategic Productivity: Taking Your Business to Greater Heights with Bart van Ark
9:30-10:30am - Networking.
During the session you'll have the opportunity to network with fellow alumni and senior leaders from a variety of industries, as well as finding out more about AMBS's portfolio of professional development courses.
There will be a selection of breakfast pastries for you to enjoy before the discussion while you network with fellow alumni and industry peers.
60 years of AMBS
As part of our 60th anniversary celebrations, we’re excited to offer a complimentary spot on our 4-day Strategic Productivity course to the 60th person who registers for and attends this event.
We will get in touch with the recipient by Monday 10 February to provide details about the requirements for claiming the free place.
Professor Bart van Ark
Bart Van Ark is a Professor of Productivity Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School and is also the Managing Director of The Productivity Institute. The Productivity Institute is a UK-wide organisation which aims to lay the foundations for an era of sustained and inclusive productivity growth. It brings together academic research, policy studies and business engagement.
Between 2008 and 2022, Bart was Chief Economist at The Conference Board - a global business research organisations headquartered in New York. Here, 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. His research has cut across the areas of economic growth, international economics and business, development economics and economic history.