Productivity Connections: Productivity, skills & work in a digital economy

Productivity, skills and work in a digital economy

The Centre for Productivity & Efficiency the Work Foundation and the North West Business Leadership Team invite you to join the second in a three part workshop series focusing on productivity.

The vital role of managers investing in skills to enhance UK productivity is central to the Industrial Strategy. With nine out of ten of the 2024 workforce already in work, lifelong learning amongst existing workers, enabling upskilling and effective skills utilisation, is crucial. This raises many questions. For example, how can managers be supported to adopt more digitally enabled forms of working and learning? And are initiatives such as the national retraining programme and flexible learning fund enough to inspire change?

Workshop Agenda

10:15-10:45 - Coffee and registration

10:45-11:30 - Introduction and Keynote from Phil Smith

11:30-13:00 - Workshop: agenda-setting

13:00-13:45 - Lunch and networking

13:45-15:15 - Workshop: developing collaboration opportunities

15:15 -16:15 - Panel discussion and follow-up actions

Keynote Speaker

Phil Smith, Chairman of Cisco

We look forward to seeing you there!

Productivity Connections is a series of three workshops which will build network connections between policy, business, and academic stakeholders in addressing aspects of the productivity gap, both nationally and in the North West. The series will be led by the Centre for Productivity & Efficiency (CPE) at Lancaster University Management School, in conjunction with the Work Foundation and the North West Business Leadership Team.

The third workshop will take place on the 3rd July - Productive and innovative places

The CPE researches the measurement, analysis, management and improvement of productivity. A core principle of our Centre’s work is that productivity must be understood at multiple levels: individual activities, firms, supply chains, sectors and localities. This is especially relevant in the development of place-specific industrial strategy and in harnessing digital technologies that have the potential to intimately link together firms in business networks and supply chains.

The aims of the Productivity Connections series are:

• to build consensus on the agenda for action in key areas of productivity, and

• to connect academics to other stakeholders with a view to developing projects and funding bids for knowledge exchange, collaboration and research activities.