Por Laura Contreras | September 26th, 2008
You can call me Ishmael… … And even when I don’t necessary will tell you how I survived a shipwreck that frenetically chased a white whale, knowing this story I’ll make mine the phrase that prays: “In warned war there is no valid corpse” and even more than a literary story I’ll testify an analogy [...]
Por Laura Contreras | May 9th, 2008
According to the value chain methodology from Michael Porter, the activities which are made by an enterprise may be divided in primary activities and support activities.
Por Laura Contreras | April 11th, 2008
Since the management decisions are applications that do not have the “undo” command
Por Laura Contreras | March 24th, 2008
More than one year ago, I was working in a manufacturing Enterprise. When I started to work, my responsibilities were mainly to monitor KPIS behavior (Behavior Key Indicators), which were implemented for the manufacturing department , and to lead the “indicator meeting”, which, as a “quality circle”, helped to discuss indicator variations in weekly runnings with managers and chiefs of such unit
Recently, Mr. Andoni Zubizarreta was in Guatemala giving a conference about team work, focused toward the sport teams. I was in that conference that, by the way, was full of fans of the teams in which he played. The conference naturally evolved, considering that He was technical director of one of the Europe most [...]
The Business Intelligence concept (BI) recently gained importance to management accountants. The BI concept, developed in computer science domains, information systems, marketing and allied fields, is now highly relevant to those who face the need to better understand their business’s process, environment, competence, markets and performance. The BI concept arises form the notion that [...]
As well-known, BiCon – Business intelligence and strategy, is dedicated to Business Intelligence projects. However, a reader expounded that this concept is not that intuitive as we considered. Analyzing the comment, I found that this concept do not reflects clearly the meaning of these techniques. The set of strategies and tools focused to management, and [...]
