Simply paying more is not enough, instead specific needs of each worker should be addressed, such as flexible schedules, teleworking and services such as child care and fitness.
Participating in the Forum on Human Resources by Capital Financiero entitled "Keys to Success in Retaining Talent," were Juan Planells, former director of the National Institute of Vocational Training for Human Development (Inadeh); Alberto Saenz, director of PwC Consulting, and human resource manager of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), Procter & Gamble and Dell, Jose Rivera, and David Cabrera Enrique Salgado, respectively, who addressed this issue.
Companies are placing increasing emphasis on the value of their intellectual property, so it is necessary to design the right strategy to protect it.
The first recommendation in an article by Paola Castro Montealegre in Elfinancierocr.com, stresses how important it is that "intellectual property must be protected at the start of the business and not at the stage of the final product, which is often when we care about our protection, regardless of the fact that products or creations have probably been known about by several people and are potentially vulnerable, and we might even have intellectual property assets already on the market and positioned, without it being possible to protect them, because it hadn’t been thought about from this perspective. '
At the Transcyberiano congress held in Costa Rica, one of the conclusions was that the success of new businesses depends on their Internet presence.
An article in Elfinancierocr.com reports that "the web has become increasingly vital for any new business seeing as daily internet consumption in the last year went from 45.5% to 53.8% of Costa Ricans, mainly due to cellular consumption, said Cathalina Garcia, vice president of Unimer Centroamérica.
If done right, teleworking yields great results. If done wrong ...
Good methods for managing teleworking depend on several factors: matching time zones, mutual cultural adaptation, the ability to define processes more or less strictly, and especially clear rules on the responsibilities of each of the parties: employer and employee.
An analysis of the issue appears in an article in Elnuevodiario.com.ni, which states that "Making people accountable," is one of the basic principles of teleworker management. The telecommuter needs "a set of rules in black and white" which they can follow.
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The alignment of technology strategy with corporate strategy is mandatory for the company success.
Domingo Latorraca, a financial advisory partner at Deloitte, discusses the role of information technology in organizations and their contribution to the achievement of corporate goals, which is a vital dimension accompanying processes and human resources in order to support the business strategy.
Productive chains link suppliers and distributors to the value chain of a larger company, transferring technology to them and creating a more sustainable business.
The journalist Tatiana Gutierrez interviewed Leo Schlesinger, designated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010, for the newspaper La Nacion. The following is part of the interview:
Stories about companies who were once prosperous and now no longer exist can help us avoid making mistakes in our own companies which may lead to their demise.
Lack of leadership and not adapting to change are the main reasons that many companies fail.
Ana Cristina Sandoval in her article in Elfinancierocr.com reviews several companies which have now disappeared from Costa Rica and writes about her interview with Federico Chavarria, consulting partner with Deloitte on the subject.
The lasting success of a company requires that its leaders not only pay attention to the results, but also how those results are achieved.
An article by Dr. John C. Ickis in Elnuevodiario.com.ni looks at the topic, focusing on the essential requirement to build a corporate culture based on "how" things are done in order to achieve good results.
Dr. Ickis points to the influence of the pioneers in this subject:
In the markets of the 21st century, characterized as increasingly global and competitive, only competitive companies will survive.
An article in Capital.com.pa by Darsy Santamaría Vega reports that "Darwinism is perfectly applicable to the business world: Only the strongest and most able to adapt to change, will evolve and survive."
Factors that limit the competitiveness of enterprises, says Santamaria Vega are "restrictions, monopolies and oligopolies in the Panamanian economy, weak education, excessive bureaucracy and lack of road infrastructure, elements that put us at a disadvantage to exploit the trend towards the full opening of markets. "
Times have changed, and today it is unthinkable that a person will be employed by the same company for the whole of their lives, as happened in the past.
And if companies can not promise to keep a worker in office for life, it is obvious that workers can not promise a lifetime of loyalty to the company ...
An article in Americaeconomia.com looks at the changes that have occurred to the employer-employee relationship, from one fact: employee’s commitment to their companies is becoming increasingly more fragile.
Corporate reputation is the perception that stakeholders have of how a company meets their respective expectations.
At its core, reputation is an emotional impulse that emerges as feelings of admiration, respect, trust and a good impression of the company. It is not to be confused with corporate responsibility, as it sometimes is.
Fernando Prado Abuín, in his article in Martesfinanciero.com states that "corporate reputation and corporate social responsibility are different, but complementary, things. Understand correctly what they are, how they relate to and feed into each other, to what extent they depend on each other and how the way corporate communication builds a bridge between the two concepts is not just a purely academic matter. It is also and above all, a basic requirement for understanding the full complexity of the change of paradigm in business management that we call "Economy of Reputation ".
Price is a variable that firms can and must act on, because the impact of the outcome greatly exceeds traditional variables like costs or sales volumes.
5 immediate actions to take control of the price of your business
By Ariel Bathrooms, Fijaciondeprecios.com economist. Author of " Los secretos de los precios” (Secrets of prices)
Companies can walk the path towards the professional management of prices, following a few simple steps, and in addition it only requires a small investment.
A guide for choosing board members for small or family businesses so as to ensure good governance.
An article by Luz Maria Salamis in Prensa.com summarizes the teachings of Julie Garland McLellan, a consulting expert, for choosing better directors and so ensure the health and progress of the company:
-Identify board members who add value in order to grow the company as far as your expectations, and beyond.
Information technologies encourage flexible employment schemes which improve quality of life for workers and boost productivity for organizations.
An analysis by Sonia Vanegas, Director of the Business Unit at Manpower Group Nicaragua, in Laprensa.com.ni, outlines that as "the industrial era transformed traditional ways of working, pulling people from their workshops to concentrate in factories and hold them to certain structured work schedules so today the Human Age, supported by information technology, is doing the same by encouraging flexible employment schemes that improve quality of life for employees and productivity for organizations. "