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This paper describes an ESPRIT project proposal to establish a European Network for Advanced Productivity Studies. Performance issues are of great interest to today’s industry. Companies face the need to reengineer their business process to improve their performance in a global competition. There is a need for a European Network to assist European industry to obtain and exchange knowledge about best practices. Based on studies of competitiveness on national (macro) level, and on the results from research projects like the Norwegian Productivity Programme on EUREKA TIME Guide, ENAPS will facilitate studies at enterprise level and the exchange of the findings. ENAPS will operate based on modern IT and communication technology, and will have agents in most EU and EFTA countries.
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Rolstadås, A. (1997). ENAPS — A European Network for Advanced Productivity Studies. In: Doumeingts, G., Browne, J. (eds) Modelling Techniques for Business Process Re-engineering and Benchmarking. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35067-7_4
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