La innovación de los procesos - diferenciación en los servicios turísticos

The innovation contributes to business success and increased competitive advantage, one of the concepts that has deserved more attention among researchers in the field of management. Innovation is not exclusive of tangible products or services and can naturally extend to the process itself, the organization or marketing. Although it is not easy to gather a universal concept for innovation, do not seem to be no doubt that its importance is such that allows the company to build on the foundations of this future development, regardless of past success. This work has as its central purpose the study of process innovation in the supply outlook for tourism, given its importance in achieving business success. The recognition of its value assumes it as a challenge, making it necessary to distinguish with product, marketing and organizational innovation, either in substance or in the organizational competencies. Will be presented in this work, a brief description (as well as evolution of the concept) as a way of contextualizing and, then, clarified the distinction between the concepts process innovation and innovation process. Search will bring together the key distinguishing features from the perspective of tourism as a means of achieving competitive advantage for business. We will also discuss implications for management and future studies.

Adopcion del cuadro de mando integral en organizaciones portuguesas: factores relativos a los sistemas de informacion y gestion

Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar y analizar un conjunto de variables relativas a los sistemas de información y gestión que pueden potencialmente influir en la implementación, en organizaciones públicas y privadas portuguesas, del sistema de gestión estratégica designado Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI). Se ha definido un conjunto de hipótesis de investigación y para comprobar empíricamente las hipótesis formuladas hemos recurrido a los datos obtenidos mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario postal a 591 organizaciones públicas y 549 organizaciones privadas portuguesas, con una tasa de respuesta total del 31,3%. Los resultados han permitido obtener evidencia empírica que confirma la asociación entre la implementación del CMI: y la importancia atribuida a medidas no financieras; y la vinculación a un sistema de incentivos y recompensas; y la existencia de un proceso presupuestario.