Productivity growth shot up to 4 percent a year from 2001 through 2004.

But lack of productivity growth is not the key problem.

Productivity growth of 3 percent or more a year is generally considered good.

Over the years, virtually all economic progress has come from productivity growth.

In fact, productivity growth has increased steadily since late 1996.

As one would expect, productivity growth has slowed along with the economy.

Productivity growth only tells us about progress made from one year to the next.

Then came the dark age of productivity growth: from 1974 to 1994, it averaged only 1.4 percent a year.

When the economy started to slow down in 2000, many economists expected productivity growth to fall back under 2 percent.

One is the effect of technological progress on productivity growth.

An agreed set of performance indicators would be a starting point for this.

See the page in this guide on environmental key performance indicators.

But some companies are able to use the Internet to monitor many or all of their key performance indicators.

Most drivers say they will know more about the car in weeks to come, because Sunday's race was not a good indicator of its performance.

None of these count against a prison's key performance indicators.

These are also typically the goals and performance indicators of sales management.

As a minimum, you should have a written environmental policy with action points and key performance indicators listed.

See the page in this guide on choosing and using key performance indicators.

Whether the performance indicators relating to these issues are relevant is more difficult.

Both schools are well regarded with exam results along reading and writing performance indicators above the national average.