Cómo gestionar las crisis mediáticas y su repercusión en la reputación

[ES] A lo largo de la historia, las empresas se han visto sometidas a numerosas crisis mediáticas que han afectado directamente a su reputación. En el presente trabajo, analizaremos la repercusión de la comunicación en la gestión de una crisis, cómo mediante un uso eficaz de la comunicación en la gestión de una crisis, se podrá reducir el posible daño potencial que esta pueda ocasionar en la reputación de una empresa, evitando así una influencia negativa en los resultados empresariales. Para ello ilustraremos el marco teórico del trabajo con dos casos prácticos. Una vez analizados ambos casos, llegamos a la conclusión de que la reputación es un activo estratégico que genera valor a las empresas. Dicha reputación se verá comprometida ante un escenario de crisis, pero mediante la implementación de un eficaz plan de gestión de crisis y una adecuada administración de los conflictos potenciales podremos reducir los daños que una crisis pueda producir en nuestra empresa. Destacar también como será conveniente gozar en todo momento de una buena reputación, para en caso de que se produzca una crisis mediática usar este activo intangible como fortaleza.

Process management in healthcare.Sant Camil Hospital case study

Nowadays due to the crisis, some government measures are aimed at reducing healthcare spending, affecting in some level or another the quality offered. Process management is said to be a useful tool for reducing healthcare costs by improving management without any additional economic investment. That is doing more with the same resources and without reducing the quality offered. In this study an empirical case of a Catalan hospital is presented. Overall, the usefulness of process management in the healthcare sector is shown and some tips are provided for those managers that want to implement this management system in their hospitals. This work is also interesting for those managers responsible for the National Healthcare System due to a big question is stated: what would happen if process management was implemented in the whole healthcare system?

Traditional budgeting during financial crisis

[EN] This study examines the evolution of budgeting practices in the extremely difficult Spanish economic environment. In order to analyse if companies are still maintaining their budgeting process and if, right now, they are facing more difficulties in forecasting accurate indicators, two similar web surveys were addressed over two periods of time, firstly in 2008 at the beginning of the financial crisis, and secondly in 2013 after five years of a downward trend. In addition, in-depth interviews were conducted to investigate how companies brought more flexibility to their budgeting process in order to cope with environmental uncertainty. The survey indicates that 97% of respondents are still using a traditional budgeting process being this result similar to the one found in 2008. However, 2013 showed that the reliance on forecasted information is being increasingly questioned. Furthermore the study revealed that the respondents are bringing more flexibility to their processes, being able to modify the objectives once the budget is approved and to obtain new resources outside the budgeting process. This paper contributes to revealing information about difficulties in setting reliable objectives in a turbulent environment and provides data about the evolution of budgeting practices over five years during an austere economic crisis.