Pago por Servicios Ecosistémicos y protección del borde del Cerro de las Tres Cruces: propuesta metodológica para una posible aplicación del método e Valoración Contingente

Pérez-Muñoz, C. (Carolina) | 2014-05-15

El artículo plantea, a partir de los modelos de valoración económica de la calidad ambiental, cómo la determinación de la Disposición a Pagar (DAP) de los individuos, puede ser un método complementario para la toma de decisiones de protección y conservación del Cerro de las Tres Cruces. Para ello, se propone la utilización del método de Valoración Contingente (VC) que permite, a través de la creación de un mercado hipotético para valorar la calidad ambiental, estimar la DAP al aplicar análisis estadísticos y econométricos a la información obtenida por medio de encuestas. Aunque el método VC no es aplicado, el estudio encuentra que la posible utilización de este método y de algunos instrumentos de gestión y financiación del suelo, permitirían involucrar a la comunidad en los procesos de mejoramiento del medio ambiente y la protección de los bordes de la ciudad, a través de la aplicación de un esquema de Pago por Servicios Ecosistémicos (PSE).

Parque E: ecosistema para el emprendimiento innovador en Colombia

Fuel, P. (Patricia) | 2014-05-14

The present study describes the experience of the Entrepreneurship Park (Park E), a strategic Alliance between the University of Antioquia and the Municipality of Medellin, wich aims promoting the tnrepreneurial cultura in the people with higher education and to support creation of enterprises with high added value from business opportunities or results of research and academic activities identified by entrepreneurs.

La particularidad de la ejecutiva colombiana

Cárdenas - Santamaría, M. C. (María Consuelo) de | 2014-05-13

The following exploratory study illustrates the particular characteristics of a group of Colombian executives, since according to previous research, Colombia has been pointed out as the country with the highest percentage of women in upper management positions. The main purpose was to examine country, institutional and individual level variables that would enable us to describe a sample of executives and thus shed light on what makes our women executives’ particular. An exploratory study, qualitative (29 semi-structured interviews) and quantitative (69 electronic surveys) was carried out to describe the professional trajectory of this sample of Colombian women from the first, second and third organizational level. Results show that the women exerting a first level position had studied in an all girls school, were mainly engineers, lawyers and business majors, had carried out graduate studies, mainly at the master’s level, were married or had been married, had children and mentioned that household help had contributed to their career. Most of them had reached upper management positions through the financial or commercial track and had managed to climb the ladder due to their outstanding performance and their personality traits.

El pensamiento sistémico como herramienta metodológica para la resolución de problemas

Liévano-Martínez, F. (Federico) | 2014-05-14

This article presents a theoretical approach that shows the systems thinking as a methodological tool for the analysis of problems. We discuss how the technique is widely used in different scientific areas, nevertheless in several times is unknown the systems thinking practical tools in operative’s scopes. The theoretical approach proposed, depicts some systems thinking tools that are used for the comprehension, modeling and resolution of complex problems.

Portafolio de inversión en exchange traded funds (ETF ) de índices accionarios de mercados globales

Gómez-Galindo, D. P. (Diana Patricia) | 2014-05-13

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are investment funds traded the same way as stocks on different financial markets worldwide. ETFs are mostly traded on AMEX (American Stock Exchange), and most of them are designed to track a specific market index. Estimating an aggressive-moderated portfolio, by mixing ETFs that follow different stock markets around the world and using H. Markowitz Portfolio Selection Theory, provided outstanding results when comparing its performance to benchmark MCSI AC World Index. Performance was evaluated in terms of return and risk using the following indices: Sharpe, Jensen’s alpha, tracking error, Treynor and information coefficient.

Prefactibilidad del proyecto implementación de un nuevo modelo operativo para el despacho de taxis. Caso Tax Individual S.A.

Arias-Castrillón, Y. F. (Yeison Ferney) | 2014-05-14

This article describes how the research of the project “Implementation of a New Operating Model for the Taxi Dispatch” was done also shows its results. This project is an initiative of Tax Individual S.A. which is related to the integration of different technologies: IVR (Interactive Voice Response), IP Communications, GPS (Global Positioning System) and GPRS (Global Packet Radio System) to get the full automation for the taxi service provided. The initiative comes from a management indicators analysis of the taxi’s central service on this important transportation company at Valle de Aburra. These indicators show restrictions in the provision of phone requests made by the community for transportation services satisfying effectively only 65% of these requests with 1250 vehicles working with the radio system. The technological innovation purpose of this research would increase the Central service’s response capacity to the current demand level and makes flexible its escalation against the future market needs. This change represents benefits as opportunity, agility and safety both for drivers and for those whom is being transported.

Prestación de servicios de alimentación masiva en obras de construcción

Arcila-Posada, M. (Mariana) | 2014-05-14

This article presents a description of the prefeasibility study of the project previding a massive food service to the construction sites in the Metropolitan Area of Medellin. It is instended to improve the current offer throught standardization, good manufacturing practices, agile service and competitive pricing.

Propuesta de gestión urbana para el sistema de espacios públicos barriales en la comuna de El Poblado, Medellín

López-Montoya, L. Y. (Lida Yohana) | 2014-05-14

This paper develops the management system to preserve the actual land and the finance of public spaces surrounding El Poblado borough area of Medellin city. The system’s definition departs from searching instruments in the Colombian and international law which allows the proposal of a new interaction mechanism between the analyzed: development right transfer and created land. To prove the proposed mechanisms’ applicability, a series of financial models are done so the mechanisms’ costs – benefits are known with positive results. Additionally a process’ map is presented which shows step-by-step what is needed to be done so the mechanism can be applied.

Propuesta de un índice de capitalización bursátil para la bolsa de valores MILA

González-Jiménez, J. C. (Juan Camilo) | 2014-05-15

Since the middle of 2010 meetings were held regarding the creation of a new market that involved and integrates three major Latin American economies with the objective to facilitate trading between these three countries and in order to generate opportunities to invest in a wider market and to stimulate investment in emerging economies. This development justifies the proposal of an index which reflects the movement of price of the most representative stocks that are traded in the new MILA (Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano) market. This article is a result of thesis which was developed during the second half of 2011 at the undergraduate level and that proposes the development of a stock market index called "MILCA P". The proposal is presented in three parts. The markets of the three countries that participate in MILA are analized, the concepts to build an undex are analized and some of the existing indexes, that serve as a reference described. The methodologies for the construction of the porposed index are outlined, as well as the parameters and variables that are used in its construction. the index is constructed by using historical data that start from the first of June 2006, from a baseline of a 1000 points, and that comprise a period of five years, taking into account each date for rebalancing and for the selection of the stock basket. Finally, the validation and the obtained results for the proposed index are presented.

Propuesta para la gestión responsable de la educación superior

Hernández-Pérez, R. D. (Rubén Darío) | 2014-05-14

In order to share a minimum language of understanding is an introduction to the concepts of quality, accountability and social responsibility. Then, based on the premise that investing in education is the best deal you can do a country, and to consider that Law 30 of 1992 already complied with the expectations of an era, aspects which are coinciding with the justification of the proposed reform to education, are dealt with some aspects that are worth taking into account on the current proposal of the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos who has consideration made a new law in order to improve coverage and quality to allow Colombian young people become competitive globally and contribute to the development of the country in a tangible way. Various representatives of the Colombian educational system, and in particular higher education, agree in accepting that requires a change in the law 30 to transform the reality of the past 18 years, this gives rise to some questions and suggestions from the reform project that is available for the national discussion and which proposes an intervention to boost the sustainability of the aims expressed in more and better students, young Colombians, making part of the higher education in Colombia to confront a changing world and without borders. This is summarized in the questions: do raised project incorporates the actions necessary and sufficient to achieve the transformation of the results of higher education? responsible management of higher education and it is aware of the effect in Colombian society? To respond, this paper proposed certain complementary actions is considered would lead to the responsible management of the higher education.

Proyecto de observatorio de turismo para Medellín y Antioquia

López-Zapata, L. (Ledys) | 2014-05-15

The sectorial work require to feed the economic and social forces with updated and reliable information to orient the focus and making of decisions. The observatories, which work like information management centers, are a proposal that keep the consolidation the efforts inside of organizations from the public-private order that guarantee the sector development. In the text are presented functions, organizational structure, reports, services and the way to do the things which have to take into account organizations like the observatory to satisfy the regional and local needs that can have in the tourism sector.

Proyecto urbanístico Camino del Indio, municipio de Barbosa

Posada-Vélez, L. M. (Lina María) | 2014-05-12

The article talks about the definition of the guidelines for the formulation and development of the city-planning project “The Indian Way” in Barbosa (Antioquia), as structuring and articulator axis of the public space system of the municipality, recognizing with harmonic way the cultural, natural, and landscaping conditions that, together the Medellín river, turn it a solid element of planning. With the definition the intention is advancing in the formulation of the project, which only is identified in the Metropolitan Directives of Territorial Ordering. These guidelines will be given to the municipal administration of Barbosa and to the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Aburrá, so that they are constituted in a fundamental tool for development and the project is part of the Metropolitan Agenda.

Recuperación urbanística del corredor urbano de la salud Juan del Corral

Naranjo-Jaramillo, M. V. (María Victoria) | 2014-05-12

With the constructions of the Hospital San Vicente de Paul building at Medellín, started a new zone vocation in their surroundings. Several health institutions have being settled close to 51D avenue, “Avenida Juan del Corral”. The main ones are the Hospital itself, the Clínica León XIII, the faculties of medicine, public health, odontology, and nursery of Universidad de Antioquia and Clínica CES and Universidad de Antioquia IPS. A spontaneous increase of ground uses related with health was generated, and is still growing. From the point of view of urban planning, this is an opportunity to re-order and to improve the nearby districts. Generation of positive conditions for the surroundings development is one of the city authority’s responsibilities, especially when the recognition of Medellín by their high-quality health services is a city objective. Accordingly with this issue, the aim of this academic document is to offer to planning authorities guidelines to generate urban-favorable conditions for the Avenida Juan del Corral, with the purpose of being transformed and known as the “Medellín Health Boulevard”.

Reflexiones sobre la importancia del proyecto Red de Ángeles Inversionistas de Antioquia como instrumento para la dinámica del emprendimiento 2010-2011

Jaimes-Restrepo, A. M. (Ana Milena) | 2014-05-14

The purpose of this paper is to present a reflection on the importance of the Angel Investment Network project in Antioquia, promoted by CreaMe, for the dynamic enterprise. Be part of an exploratory analysis based on sources of primary and secondary information, which consequently generates qualitative results. It first presents the theoretical framework to give the reader a contextualization on the subject. Second, it presents the characteristics and achievements of the project. Next, collect the different views and opinions expressed by experts, investors and entrepreneurs Antioquia, in relation to lessons learned, challenges and opportunities faced in the future the system as a contribution to the dynamics of entrepreneurship.

Relatoría del foro “Potenciación de la Relación con el Cliente Interno”

Arroyave-Agudelo, I. D. (Iván Darío) | 2014-05-13

Relatoría del foro “¿Para dónde va el sistema de salud en Colombia?” Un análisis al sistema de salud en Colombia

Tobón-Ospina, S. A. (Sergio Andrés) | 2014-05-13

Relatoría del foro-debate Venta de ISA e Isagén

Londoño-Álvarez, C. F. (Carlos Felipe) | 2014-05-12

El Riesgo del endeudamiento: La Crisis de la Deuda Soberana y posibles implicaciones

Ardila-Restrepo, H. J. (Hermilson de Jesús) | 2014-05-14

Due to the global financial crisis unleashed between 2007 and 2008 and which quickly spread to the real sector, many governments did come out to rescue banks, significantly increasing their debt levels and, in particular, debt sovereign. Thus, many countries have reached unsustainable levels of debt, so that central banks injected liquidity to markets and expanded its balance sheet to buy assets of countries and companies in crisis, in order to ensure the smooth functioning of financial system. That is why in this article provides an analysis of the levels of borrowing countries as a result of this process, and presents a series of reflections about the impacts and the consequences that these may have in the short and medium term, especially in predicting the magnitude of these impacts.

Ruralidad en contextos metropolitanos, un desafío en procesos de planeación, ordenamiento territorial y gestión

Cadavid-Arboleda, G. M. (Gloria María) | 2014-05-13

Planning, territorial ordering and management of the countryside need an approach and consensus around the notion of rural in metropolitan contexts, systemic interdependent to the phenomenon of urbanization, population dynamics, economic model and of occupation of the province, in order to reveal the new functions or strategic roles that this space fulfills in the development, from the culturalist perspective of sustainability, recovery, and improvement of the ecosystemic connectivity, to the social and economic emergency of diversification of the activities productive: farming, forest, mining, agro-industrial and of environmental and ecotouristic services. The countryside is basic in the control of the urban expansion and the cultural and technological change in exploitation of resources and use of the ground. The transformations of the model of occupation from the relevance of the rural thing, regional dynamics, the imaginary groups and the fortification of the processes of citizen participation must be incorporated in the planning, arrangement and management of the rural territory, in the joint of the policies and instruments, homologation of norms and construction of a consensus between authorities and instances of the institutional system. Medellín counts on important antecedents of rural intervention: rural ecological parks, of urban-rural edges, districts of integrated, agrarian and rural handling, special areas of reserve and plans, but still it lacks to make coherent the measures and investments based on the endogenous opportunities with social and ecological responsibility and impact in the quality of life of the traditional communities of that rural space.

Sistema de gestión integral de provedores para el desarrollo de la industria marítima en Colombia. Caso Cotecmar

Morelos-Gómez, J. (José) | 2014-05-14

The following article presents the results of research that has as main objective to expose a model that includes processes for the integrated management of suppliers of goods and services of Research and Development Corporation-Cotecmar. The methodology used was supported by the provisioning matrix designed by Peter Kraljic and based on vendor management systems of Colombian companies such as Ecopetrol and Bavaria. The results show that given the nature of a corporation as Cotecmar is necessary to establish and implement the classification, evaluation, development and certification of providers, as a tool to further integration of the Corporation with its suppliers and in turn the definition of sourcing strategies that help streamline the supply chain and increase management capacity and the competitiveness of the organization.