Health and well-being are critical for enhancing people’s productivity. They apply across genders, ages, and locations to achieve inclusive productivity under the APO Vision 2025. The ILO reported in 2019 that more than 1.1 million people die every year due to work-related accidents or diseases in the Asia- Pacific region, and women, those with disabilities, […]
This P-Talk focuses on integrating Industry 4.0 technologies with sustainability concepts like the circular economy and green productivity in manufacturing. Successful case studies are presented to showcase the benefits of adopting digital technologies, including reduced resource consumption and productivity enhancement, across the supply chain through data-driven analysis. Gul Taskiran Battal, APO Alternate Director for Turkiye, […]
Population trends vary widely among countries and regions. In the Asia-Pacific region, Japan, Singapore, and the Republic of Korea are among the top in terms of life expectancy, but declining fertility rates mean that the number of working-age people is decreasing. On the other end, in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the workforce is still […]
The APO Certification Body Development (CBD) Program aims to develop NPOs and their affiliated organizations to become APO-accredited CBs to operate certification schemes of productivity specialists. As a CB, one of the important components is to build a pool of qualified assessors who are familiar with certification schemes and assessment methods. APO-PS 101: Requirements for […]
This P-Talk highlights the current and emerging roles of innovation agencies for supporting innovation and entrepreneurship by considering the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. By gathering evidence from using different futuristic scenarios, Alex Glennie, Senior Policy Manager, Innovation Growth Lab, Nesta, United Kingdom, explains the innovation policies required in national ecosystems and how they could […]
