Nigerian Institute of Production Management (NIPM) Centre of Industrial Development (CID) industrialization tenets and values through professionalism in production and operations management. Manufacturing and industrial processes improvement form the core of the education training and membership programmes of the Nigerian Institute of Production Management (NIPM) for over 20years. NIPM Pre-Retirement and Entrepreneurship training programmes are designed to promote start-ups. The institutes faculty has been involved in promoting professional standards and teaching ways to improve manufacturing efficiency beyond modernization of production technologies of production technologies and processes in the face of rapidly changing global economy and the challenges of the Fourth industrial revolution. By improving professional practice production of good and services will be more efficient leading to increased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the country.

At NIPM we believe that Nigeria’s industrial policy need to be well executed and a new industrial strategy be put in place to address issues of industrial capacity utilization infrastructural deficit, high cost of energy, high interest rate anti-local manufacturing, inflation, poverty, unemployment, poor entrepreneurial incentives, weak technology incubation, poor development incubation, poor development of agricultural and allied primary industries which form the bedrock of industrialization and other issues that stifle innovation, industrial development and the realization of sustainable development goals (especially SDG9) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. According to Dr. Olaniyi Opanuga, NIPM President, the engages in organizing sensitization and training workshops to promote. Continuous improvement, innovation and industrial efficiency. NIPM Education programmes includes industrial development strategy framework.