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Day 1 - November 26 2008:

The IT and Productivity Paradox- Where are we?
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Rationale : The Nobel Laureate economist once said " we see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics"
Productivity is the fundamental economic measure of technology's contribution. With this in mind, many CEOs, managers and government officials have begun to question thier huge investments in computers and related technologies. While major success stories exist, so do equally impressive failures. Measuring productivity gained from IT investment in some cases is getting difficult and this is resulted in justifying continuous investment on IT products and services difficult. Due to the overall negative correlation between economy-wide productivity and the coming of computers is behind many of the arguments that IT investments have been in some cases counter-productive.

What you learn in this session

- What is the IT and productivity paradox
- How real is the paradox
- What is the cause of the paradox
- Why do people have the perception of the paradox
- What is the impact of IT on productivity?
- How can you measure productivity gained from IT?
- How can you justify investment on IT products and services
- Why do some organizations/countries improve productivity through IT and some do not?
- How can you improve productivity through effective usage of ICT
- How can you measure ROI on IT?

Target Audience:
CEOs, MDs, IT, HR, Finance & Training Managers, Head of Departments, Head of Divisions, IT officers

By the end of the conference participants will be able to

:: effectively plan to correlate IT investments and productivity.
:: begin to measure productivity from existing IT systems and services
:: help their organisations to fully ustilise IT resources to improve productivity and efficiency
:: get the best out of their IT products and services
:: make wise decision before deploying new IT systems, upgrades and services

Time: 8:30 - 12: 45
Tea break at 10:15 - 10:30

Format of the conference: Presentation, Discussions, Q & A, Case studies

Venue: President Hotel Conference Hall, Main Mall, Gaborone

What you will get:
Conference material. Conference resource CD, Conference stationary, Tea, Certificate, Lunch and Professional facilitator and after conference online support.

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