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Silicon.com:
US firms get more out of IT than UK rivals

10 October 2008

Three pieces of government-backed research have confirmed that effective use of IT can give companies a "significant" productivity boost. The first paper, 'It ain't what you do it's the way that you do IT' from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, found that US multi-national enterprises in the UK are eight per cent more productive than their UK counterparts. The researchers said more than 80 per cent of this productivity advantage can be explained by better use of IT.

This article appeared in Silicon.com on October 10, 2008
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Related Publications
It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do I.T. by Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen in CentrePiece Volume 10, Issue 3, Winter 2005/6
It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do I.T. - Testing Explanations of Productivity Growth Using US Affiliates by Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Office for National Statistics
'Americans do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle’ by Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No 788, April 2007

Related Links
Nick Bloom webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage