{"id":15382,"date":"2021-06-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/09\/asian-productivity-organization-tokyo-statement-on-the-centrality-of-productivity\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T06:00:00","slug":"asian-productivity-organization-tokyo-statement-on-the-centrality-of-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/09\/asian-productivity-organization-tokyo-statement-on-the-centrality-of-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Productivity Organization: Tokyo Statement on the Centrality of Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO,&#13;<br \/>\nJAPAN\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 9 June 2021 &#8211;\u00a0As&#13;<br \/>\nthe economic and humanitarian crises in the second year of the COVID-19&#13;<br \/>\npandemic escalate to epic proportions and the world reels at the grim prospects&#13;<br \/>\nof viral variants described as &#8220;far more deadly&#8221; by the WHO, the 21 countries&#13;<br \/>\nthat make up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apo-tokyo.org\/\">Asian Productivity Organization (APO)<\/a> offer a sliver of hope&#13;<br \/>\nby declaring their resolve to continue the productivity movement, leveraging it&#13;<br \/>\nto guide the region through new, harsh challenges in the years ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Survival is paramount.&#13;<br \/>\nEnterprises and SMEs must be resilient and the workforce adaptable to new&#13;<br \/>\nworkstyles and new types of business. Productivity is the foundation of this&#13;<br \/>\nsurvival, not only for becoming more competitive but also in the broader,&#13;<br \/>\nphilosophical sense of &#8220;making tomorrow better than today.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Drawing upon its 60 years&#13;<br \/>\nof engagement in Asia and the Pacific, the APO crystallizes the key lessons of&#13;<br \/>\nits six decades of journey in a joint statement, &#8220;The Tokyo Statement on the&#13;<br \/>\nCentrality of Productivity.&#8221; Issued at the conclusion of its 63rd Governing&#13;<br \/>\nBody Meeting on 9 June 2021, the statement serves as a beacon to traverse a&#13;<br \/>\nturbulent future. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The statement outlines&#13;<br \/>\nkey priority targets of the APO for 2021\u20132025. Those targets support the APO&#13;<br \/>\nVision 2025 in striving for &#8220;inclusive, innovation-led productivity growth in&#13;<br \/>\nAsia and the Pacific.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The priority targets&#13;<br \/>\ncover four broad areas. The first is leveraging new drivers of productivity. In&#13;<br \/>\ntoday&#8217;s extraordinary circumstances, productivity improvement efforts must yield&#13;<br \/>\nextraordinary results. New drivers that include innovation, advanced&#13;<br \/>\ntechnologies, and digitalization are expected to lead to exponential&#13;<br \/>\nproductivity gains.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The second involves&#13;<br \/>\nenhancing productivity tools, techniques, and methodologies. Upgrading and&#13;<br \/>\nupskilling are imperative given ongoing rapid, dynamic changes. New business&#13;<br \/>\nstyles, new work styles, and new business platforms have become the norms.&#13;<br \/>\nProductivity tools, techniques, and methodologies must therefore be&#13;<br \/>\ncontinuously updated to support the latest trends. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Third is making&#13;<br \/>\nproductivity more inclusive. This means broadening the outreach and applications&#13;<br \/>\nof productivity to embrace persons with different abilities, in addition to&#13;<br \/>\nwomen, youth, and socially vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The fourth priority is&#13;<br \/>\nstrengthening National Productivity Organizations as the premiere productivity-promoting&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutions, equipping them to be policy partners for their governments. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo Statement&#13;<br \/>\nunderlines a renewed commitment to the mutual cooperation that has been the&#13;<br \/>\nhallmark of the APO. The full text is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apo-tokyo.org\/\">www.apo-tokyo.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-09\/81054\/asian-productivity-organization-tokyo-statement-on-the-centrality-of-productivity\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO,&#13; JAPAN\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 9 June 2021 &#8211;\u00a0As&#13; the economic and humanitarian crises in the second year of the COVID-19&#13; pandemic escalate to epic proportions and the world reels at the grim prospects&#13; of viral variants described as &#8220;far more deadly&#8221; by the WHO, the 21 countries&#13; that make up the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) offer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}