I. Introduction
Productivity Solutions (Prodsol) is a New Zealand company that helps people and organisations secure dramatic improvement in challenging situations. Our secret is the ability to identify and solve the universal performance-limiting problem underlying a challenging situation.
Orchestrated National Ingenuity is a way of deliberately stimulating and provoking the national productivity transformation that the Prime Minster is seeking. We strongly support his view that productivity improvement is the fundamental recession solution requirement. Orchestrated National Ingenuity is designed to enable New Zealand to recover from the recession earlier and better, by bringing about a dramatic increase in individual and collective productivity.
Critically, if the initiative is timed and coordinated well, it will have a dramatic and synchronising impact on investor confidence and activity, potentially reversing the recession trend within New Zealand and even attracting foreign investment, before too long, as a result.
This may seem a bold claim to make, but it is a realistic one, as the rest of this document seeks to demonstrate. The impact of a single-minded drive to change an entire economy with few natural resources has been demonstrated by Singapore and Ireland – so there is no reason why New Zealand should not be able to achieve the same results. This document outlines one of the ways in which this can be done, taking advantage of the opportunity the global recession provides.
