TO remain relevant, a company or organisation needs to increase productivity to achieve economic sustainability.
When it comes to productivity, obviously the most important thing to focus on is technology.
Every professional industry in this country, which consists mostly of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), needs to undergo transformation by lifting or applying technology in their respective organisation in this era of digital transformation.
In this regard, technology adoption initiative under the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) through the Professional Services Productivity Nexus (PSPN) was created to help the professional services industry to continue to thrive and be competitive.
According to Plytec Holding Sdn Bhd chief operating officer Ts. Louis Tay, digital transformation needs to be achieved with the right strategy.
Ahmad Furoji says the unexpected win would motivate Proton s workers to come up with more innovative projects for the company.
CREATIVE thinking by a group from Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Sdn Bhd (Proton) has earned them the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) Chairman Award at the Annual Productivity and Innovation Conference and Exposition (APIC) 2020.
The win for the group, known as “Dynamic” from Proton, was announced at the inaugural virtual APIC 2020 award presentation event.
Proton secretariat Ahmad Furoji Aris, from the carmaker’s Shah Alam branch, expressed his appreciation for the award.
“The Dynamic group presented a project on late claim submission for the benefit of Proton employees, which can cut cost by RM1mil or 27%. This project can reduce cycle time for claim processing from 34 days to only six days, which is an 82% reduction.
THE Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear that digital solutions are vital for enterprises to remain competitive, especially SMEs.
Our country’s machinery and equipment (M&E) sector is dominated by at least 85% locally-owned SMEs and the majority of them are comfortable with their traditional methods of business management, resulting in little contribution to today’s sector productivity.
This needs to be challenged as more developed nations are becoming increasingly competitive by adopting new technologies and business methods.
To boost productivity in the M&E sector, the M&E Productivity Nexus (MEPN), supported by Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC), was established and led by industry associations under the Machinery and Engineering Industries Federation (MEIF) to assist SMEs in operations-related productivity improvement.
THE Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the tourism industry tremendously, and Malaysia is neither exempted.
Majority local tourism companies faced the possibilitiy of winding up their businesses when the industry was paralysed especially during the implementation of the movement control order (MCO) by the Government.
However, there were exceptional tourism entrepreneurs who could still maintain their businesses, and moved forward although they too were impacted by the outbreak.
The success stories of these 12 best tourism companies have been compiled in a book Showcasing Malaysia’s Tourism Heroes 2.0 (SMTH 2.0) published online by the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) and Tourism Industry Nexus (TPN) which has been uploaded onto MPC website at http://www.mpc.gov.my/ebook/latest-heroes/index.html.