Plan estratégico del Sistema Universitario del Eje Cafetero - SUEJE (2016 – 2021)

Este trabajo de grado formula un plan estratégico para el Sistema Universitario del Eje Cafetero (SUEJE) para ser ejecutado en el periodo 2016-2021 -- El SUEJE es una alianza interuniversitaria constituida como entidad sin ánimo de lucro, que explotando la base de conocimiento de sus universidades miembros provee servicios de consultoría, y gestiona y ejecuta proyectos dentro del sector público colombiano -- Este plan estratégico se ha desarrollado en 4 etapas: una primera etapa de diagnóstico donde se identifican los elementos internos críticos de la organización y su contexto externo a través del análisis DOFA y las 5 fuerzas de Porter -- Una segunda etapa donde se hace un benchmarking estratégico con dos de los principales referentes del mercado de Servicios de consultoría, gestión y ejecución de proyectos en el sector público colombiano; una tercera etapa donde se caracteriza la estrategia de SUEJE para los próximos 5 años utilizando el método de Mapas Estratégicos, donde se redefinen los pilares básicos de la organización y sus objetivos prioritarios a través del análisis de 4 diferentes perspectivas: perspectiva financiera, interna, del cliente y de aprendizaje y crecimiento -- Finalmente, concluye con la construcción de una herramienta gerencial o Balanced Scorecard la cual define indicadores de gestión para 17 objetivos estratégicos y un plan de acción con 5 iniciativas estratégicas

Caracterización del mercado informal de juegos con máquinas de azar en el barrio Samaria de la ciudad de Pereira

Con el presente trabajo de investigación se determinaron las principales características que presenta el mercado informal de juegos de azar, localizados con Máquinas Electrónicas Tragamonedas (METs) en un barrio de la ciudad de Pereira (Samaria) -- Mercado que funciona en locales de tipología tradicional, la cual está constituida por los negocios como tiendas, misceláneas, cafeterías, graneros, licoreras, heladerías y otros, es decir, locales cuya actividad comercial principal no son los juegos de azar ni el entretenimiento, que optan por incluir en sus portafolios una o dos máquinas electrónicas de juego -- Dichos instrumentos de juego se instalan dentro del espacio de su local y no están inscritas ni cuentan con el permiso de operación de la entidad reguladora de esta actividad en Colombia, que es Coljuegos -- Por tal razón no hay un registro de su magnitud ni mucho menos de los recursos financieros que genera, así como tampoco de las condiciones contractuales en las que opera -- Al ser los juegos de azar localizados una actividad estrictamente regulada por el Estado, el caracterizar la operación informal adquiere relevancia tanto para el Estado como para las compañías formalmente constituidas en la actividad, los cuales ven en ello un competidor informal que captura una participación de mercado de juegos de azar localizados con máquinas de juego

Estudio de factibilidad para la creación de una empresa dedicada a ofrecer comida rápida, saludable y en forma móvil en la ciudad de Manizales

En el presente documento se presenta un estudio de factibilidad para la creación de una empresa de comida rápida, saludable y de forma móvil en la ciudad de Manizales -- Para el efecto se llevó a cabo realizó un análisis del contexto socioeconómico de la ciudad para determinar la posibilidad de ofrecer comida rápida enmarcada en el concepto de fast good, mobile food service -- En el estudio se siguieron los planteamientos de Baca Urbina (2010) que desarrollan las tres esferas del conocimiento que comprenden y dan cuenta de la viabilidad del mercado, la técnica y la financiera, que permiten determinar si la realización del proyecto es factible con el supuesto de un nivel de riesgo moderado -- La estrategia metodológica planteada se sustenta en un estudio de carácter descriptivo soportado en fuentes primarias y secundarias que pretenden dar cuenta de la situación actual del mercado y la real posibilidad de generar un nuevo negocio con las características antes descritas

Modelo de negocio de la Cooperativa Multiactiva de Productores de Compostaje y Abonos Orgánicos “COMPOSCOOP” de la ciudad de Manizales

El trabajo de investigación consiste en diseñar un modelo de negocio para la cooperativa “Composcoop” de Manizales, con base en el modelo Canvas, mediante la identificación de los elementos estratégicos que le generan valor al negocio -- La construcción del modelo, como herramienta de planificación estratégica, radicó en reconocer los elementos fundamentales que pueden generar valor al negocio y las actividades que deben tenerse en cuenta en un futuro inmediato para lograr posicionarse en el mercado de los abonos orgánicos -- La investigación tuvo enfoque cualitativo y se llevó a cabo al tener en cuenta cuatro momentos: primero: análisis documental de fuentes secundarias para conocer conceptualizaciones, tipos, importancia y metodología por aplicar; segundo: las entrevistas en profundidad con tres expertos temáticos, para tener mayores argumentos sobre el modelo que habría de trabajarse; tercero: la producción intelectual en un grupo focal para generar discusiones de la empresa, reflexiones de proyección y actividades realizadas para capturar mayor cantidad de clientes y fidelizarlos, y cuarto: hacer una triangulación en relación con los ejercicios antes desarrollados -- Al término del ejercicio se logró identificar la importancia y la pertinencia de la aplicación de un modelo de negocio, desarrollar habilidades que permitiesen potencializar la idea de negocio y definir la importancia de los roles y las responsabilidades frente a la estrategia para desarrollar lo planeado

Undermined climate policies : a study on the impact of regulatory and financial discrimination across heterogeneous firms in China

Firms in China within the same industry but with different ownership and size have very different production functions and can face very different emission regulations and financial conditions. This fact has largely been ignored in most of the existing literature on climate change. Using a newly augmented Chinese input–output table in which information about firm size and ownership are explicitly reported, this paper employs a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the impact of alternative climate policy designs with respect to regulation and financial conditions on heterogeneous firms. The simulation results indicate that with a business-as-usual regulatory structure, the effectiveness and economic efficiency of climate policies is significantly undermined. Expanding regulation to cover additional firms has a first-order effect of improving efficiency. However, over-investment in energy technologies in certain firms may decrease the overall efficiency of investments and dampen long-term economic growth by competing with other fixed-capital investments for financial resources. Therefore, a market-oriented arrangement for sharing emission reduction burden and a mechanism for allocating green investment is crucial for China to achieve a more ambitious emission target in the long run.

A model to screen and improve business potential of micro and small enterprises in developing countries: Evidence from the Island of Mozambique

Programmes supporting micro and small enterprises in developing countries have been showing that capital is not enough to allow business success: survival and growth. Literature does not provide comprehensive and practical tool to support business development in this context, but allowed the collection of forty-nine success variables that were studied in a sample of successful and unsuccessful businesses in the Island of Mozambique to discover what were the key factors affecting those businesses’ performance. Empirical data gave the insights for the development of a model to screen and improve business potential of micro and small enterprises in this context.

Technological trampolines for new venture creation in Catalonia: the case of the University of Girona

Recent trends in technology transfer show an intensification of spin-off creation as a modality of university research commercialisation, complementary to the conventional ones, contract research and licensing. In this paper we analyse the evolution, objectives, resources and activities of a specialised unit –Technological Trampoline (TT) - in charge of new venture creation at the University of Girona (Catalonia-Spain). Based on two theoretical frameworks, Resource-based-view and Institutional Theory, we adopt a multi-dimensional approach to study the strategy of spinning-off new ventures at the University of Girona in terms of resources and activities, how this process is organised and if the outputs fit with this UdG’s objectives and the local environment. Our main contribution is an in-depth analysis of the spin-off creation unit with special emphasis on its variety of resources and activities. The results have a series of implications and recommendations at both university and TT level.

Recerca versus docència en una experiència d'internalització dels estudis de Geografia a la Universitat de Girona: The faces of landscape, Catalonia and North Karelia = Research versus teaching in one experience of internationalization of the Geography degree studies in the University of Girona: The faces of landscape, Catalonia and North Karelia

Un dels reptes cabdals de la Universitat és enllaçar l’experiència de recerca amb la docència, així com promoure la internacionalització dels estudis, especialment a escala europea, tenint present que ambdues poden actuar com a catalitzadores de la millora de la qualitat docent. Una de les fórmules d’internacionalització és la realització d’assignatures compartides entre universitats de diferents països, fet que suposa l’oportunitat d’implementar noves metodologies docents. En aquesta comunicació es presenta una experiència en aquesta línia desenvolupada entre la Universitat de Girona i la Universitat de Joensuu (Finlàndia) en el marc dels estudis de Geografia amb la realització de l’assignatura 'The faces of landscape: Catalonia and North Karelia'. Aquesta es desenvolupa al llarg de dues setmanes intensives, una en cadascuna de les Universitats. L’objectiu és presentar i analitzar diferents significats del concepte paisatge aportant també metodologies d’estudi tant dels aspectes físics i ecològics com culturals que s’hi poden vincular i que són les que empren els grups de recerca dels professors responsables de l’assignatura. Aquesta part teòrica es completa amb una presentació de les característiques i dinàmiques pròpies dels paisatges finlandesos i catalans i una sortida de camp. Per a la part pràctica es constitueixen grups d’estudi multinacionals que treballen a escala local algun dels aspectes en els dos països, es comparen i es realitza una presentació i defensa davant del conjunt d’estudiants i professorat. La llengua vehicular de l’assignatura és l’anglès.

Productivity and human capital: a business-level analysis

This paper aims to analyse the impact of human capital on business productivity, focusing the analysis on the possible effect of the complementarity that exists between human capital and new production technologies, particularly advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) for the specific case of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Catalonia. Additionally, following the theory of skill-biased technological change, the paper analyses whether technological change produces bias exclusively in the skills required for managers, or whether the bias extends to the skills required of production staff. With this objective, we have compared the possible existence of complementarity between AMTs and the level of human capital for different occupational groups. The results confirm the complementary relationship between human capital and new production technologies. The results by occupational group confirm that to maximise the productivity of new technologies, skilled staff are needed both in management and production, with managers and professionals as well as skilled operatives playing a vital role. Keywords: human capital, process technologies, complementarity, business productivity. (JEL D24, J24, O30).

Entrepreneurial structure of the mercantile company in pre-industrial Catalonia

The mercantile company was the basic form of enterprise in pre-industrial Catalonia. The aim of this paper is to study the formation and development of the mercantile companies in Barcelona whose end was the wholesale and retail sale of textiles in the botigues de teles (textile retail shops) throughout the eighteenth century. These firms were officially registered before a notary and their deeds reveal how these establishments were administered and managed.The study covers a sample of 121 mercantile companies, and the articles and documentation that were put into effect by 32 notaries who were active in Barcelona in the 18th century have been consulted in their entirety. From an initial selection of documentation, a total of 228 deeds registering companies have been found, 107 of which (47%) relate to the creation of companies whose various activities were centred in taverns, textile manufacturing, braiding.... While the 121 companies, which make up our sample and which account for 53% of the deeds registered with the notaries mentioned above, focused exclusively on the management of textile retail shops located in the commercial heart of the city. Thus one point of interest that the documentation reveals is that the majority of the mercantile companies registered by Barcelona notaries throughout the 18th century were establishments which traded in textiles. The first part of the article focuses on the structural characteristics of these enterprises, the number and socio-professional status of the partners and the extent of each partner s involvement in the administration and management. The second part of the article examines the capital investment made by each partner, their rights and obligations agreed on, the sharing out of profits and possible losses and the duration of the companies. The final aim of the paper is to highlight the evolution of these companies through one specific case.

On Doing Successful ICT Business with Russian Manufacturing Enterprises

This Master’s thesis addresses different approaches using which a foreign IT company could enter Russian manufacturing industry with its enterprise information systems and IT services. In order to define the most suitable market entry approach, several aspects related to Russian manufacturing enterprises are studied. These aspects include challenges of doing ICT business with the previously mentioned enterprises, their perception of ICT role and their ICT preferences, as well as their buying behavior related to acquisition of information systems (IS). The study results show that there are several challenges that can be faced by a foreign IT vendor when starting conducting ICT business with Russian manufacturing enterprises. The results also show that Russian manufacturing industry is still rather immature in sense of business process automation, and its IT buying behavior is rather specific and complicated. The results suggest that an efficient way to approach these enterprises is through a network of trusted partners that consists of reliable Russian IS integrators and business consultants having established connections to Russian manufacturing companies and possessing the needed competence.

Challenges of business process automation for small and medium enterprises

The aim of the study was to examine problems that small and medium enterprises are facing during the implementation of business process automation projects. Study reveals problems from the point of view of companies who are implementing automation projects and from the point of view of IT-integrators who are specifying in IT solutions for small and medium companies.

Working capital management in the small and medium-sized enterprises Case: Project-based business environment in Flowrox Oy

This Master´s thesis illustrates how growing a business ties up the company´s working capital and what the cost of committed capital. In order to manage a company´s working capital in rapid business growth phase, the thesis suggests that by monitoring and managing the operating and cash conversion cycles of customers´ projects, a company can find ways to secure the required amount of capital. The research method of this thesis was based on literature reviews and case study research. The theoretical review presents the concepts of working capital and provides the background for understanding how to improve working capital management. The company in subject is a global small and medium-sized enterprise that manufactures pumps and valves for demanding process conditions. The company is expanding, which creates lots of challenges. This thesis concentrates to the company´s working capital management and its efficiency through the supply chain and value chain perspective. The main elements of working capital management are inventory management, accounts receivable management and accounts payable management. Prepayments also play a significant role, particularly in project-based businesses. Developing companies´ working capital management requires knowledge from different kind of key operations´ in the company, like purchasing, production, sales, logistics and financing. The perspective to develop and describe working capital management is an operational. After literature reviews the thesis present pilot projects that formed the basis of a model to monitor working capital in the case company. Based on analysis and pilot projects, the thesis introduces a rough model for monitoring capital commitments in short time period. With the model the company can more efficiently monitor and manage their customer projects.

Harinera La Montserrat (1898-1936). Aproximación a la historia empresial de los Ensesa de Girona (c. 1880-c. 1989)

Després d'esbossar la trajectòria del grup empresarial dels Ensesa (la farinera, la metal·lúrgica Batlle, Solés i Cia, el Garatge Callicó, Indústries Químiques Tartàriques, la ciutat-jardí de S'Agaró, Suberolita, etc), la recerca s'orienta especialment cap a l'estudi del sistema d'informació comptable de "La Montserrat", que posa en relleu les característiques econòmiques, financeres i patrimonials de l'empresa. Des del principi, les activitats empresarials dels Ensesa tenen dimensions catalanes, espanyoles i internacionals, que s'amplien i diversifiquen molt ràpidament durant el primer terç del segle XX, en especial amb "els Químics" i la zona residencial de S'Agaró, on conflueixen la burgesia de Girona, Barcelona i el turisme de luxe. La seva adscripció a la burgesia catalanista sembla ser precisament el motiu de l'expedient de Responsabilitats Polítiques que els varen incoar al 1939-1940, però, absolts, recuperen les propietats que els havien estat col·lectivitzades durant la guerra civil, fins que a principis dels anys vuitanta procedeixen a la liquidació i venda de les indústries del grup empresarial.