Increase productivity: It starts with organizational alignment

There are approximately 7,298,413 books and speeches a year on how to increase productivity. In reality, it's much, much simpler than we make it out to be.

Ways to increase productivity should be at the forefront of managerial and executive minds at any workplace -- or so you'd hope. After all, at base level productivity is the amount of value produced (a good thing) divided by the time or cost it took to do so. It's hard to achieve solid annual growth without methods in place to increase productivity, you…