Information		Raising Productivity: Inside the Plans
Date: FRI, 19 MAR 2010
Time: 4pm		The Singaporean Government’s 2010 Budget Speech outlines plans to increase productivity through skills, innovation and economic restructuring. This increase in productivity is aimed at raising Singapore’s global competitiveness and thus the wealth and wellbeing of its citizens. These Budget 2010 plans promote transformations in three key areas:
Venue: SMa School of Management  SPRING Campus  Spring Singapore Building  Level 11
		-		Restructuring the economy towards higher value activities;
		-		Upgrading industries and enterprises through tax benefits to businesses that invest in skills and innovation; and
		-		Raising people’s skills.
		These plans include excellent intentions and funding programs, but there are some gaps. The gaps are there because of assumptions.
		Assumptions that we know how to:
		-		Restructure towards higher value activities, but from whose point of view, in which markets?
		-		Upgrade industries through tax benefits, but do we really know which skills and where the innovation is coming from?
		-		Raise people’s skills, but in what way and how?
		David Clark-Murphy will present ideas for your consideration on each of these questions. He will also suggest how you may contribute your intellects towards raising Singapore’s productivity and your own wealth and wellbeing.
		Programme Outline:
			4.00pm to 4.30pm		Registration
			4.30pm to 5.30pm		Raising Productivity: Inside the Plans
			5.30pm onwards		Networking Session (Refreshments will be served)
					Doctor David Clark-Murphy, Associate Professor and Head of School, Marketing, Tourism & Leisure at Edith Cowan University, comes from international industry, mainly in shipping, transport and oil. His PhD is in Cognitive Psychology applied to Management Decision Making. He is a regular speaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Global Start-up Workshop. This annual innovation conference includes workshops with key politicians, industry leaders, and community representatives towards finding innovative solutions to critical problems in their countries. David is on his way to meet the president of Iceland next Monday as part of team attempting to find solutions to Iceland’s banking crisis. Last year MIT GSW was working in Cape Town, South Africa where unemployment was around 50% and where solutions came mainly from group ideas in social entrepreneurship. Some of David’s previous innovation students achieved semi final places in the Lee Kwan Yew Global Innovation Competition; others were awarded the Australian Prime Minister’s prize, including Young Businessperson of the Year; and David was nominated as Australian Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year.
	To register, please call 6572 5600
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