Business Optimization with Technology and Data
Adding Value and Reducing Costs
1. Add Value:
- Improve results through data mining projects.
- Better customer segmentation and targeting.
- Improve forecasting for better demand planning.
- Increase margins and market share.
- Reduce resources (cost reduction).
- Gain competitive advantage through new opportunities or technologies.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
2. ERP System: Enterprise Resource Planning is an integrated computer system used to manage internal and external resources, including fixed assets,
Read MorePublic Administration Staff: Roles, Selection, and Requirements
Item 9: Staff at the Service of Public Administrations
1. Human Resources Management
Civil servants are paid professionals in public administration who serve the general interest.
1.1 Types of Public Employees
1. Personnel Management: Individuals who develop professional leadership roles in government (e.g., General Manager).
2. Public Officials:
- A. Career Officials: Persons working within the administration who perform professional services and are paid permanently.
- B. Interim Officials: Individuals appointed
Tertiary Sector: Utilities, Commerce, and Transport in Spain
Utilities
Utilities are activities of the tertiary sector that are managed by the state. They are maintained with taxes and benefit the majority of the citizens of a state.
Commerce
Commerce, in the context of economic geography, is the flow of goods or services between the producer and the consumer. Trade usually takes place in a physical location.
Transport
Transport is the transfer of people or goods from one place to another. Modern commercial transport serves the public interest and includes all
Read MoreMultinational Business Strategies and Globalization’s Impact
Multinational Business Strategies
In a multi-branch strategy, each country’s operations are completely autonomous, and differences between them are remarkable because they have little interaction. Usually, there is a mechanism to coordinate with each other, but typically only financial strategies and advertising are aligned. Products are totally different. The subsidiaries are separate.
Overall Strategy
Multinationals that use this strategy behave as a single unit, avoiding duplication of functions
Read MoreBusiness Structures: Types and Legal Forms in Spain
Types of Companies
Property of Production or Capital Resources
- Private: Capital belongs to private individuals or legal entities.
- Public: Capital is wholly or partially owned by the State, Autonomous Communities, or municipalities.
Size
- Small: Fewer than 50 employees.
- Medium: Fewer than 250 employees.
- Large: 250 or more employees.
Fields of Activity
- Primary Sector: Use of natural resources (agriculture, livestock, and fisheries).
- Secondary Sector: Industrial enterprises.
- Tertiary Sector: Service companies
Key Roles in Construction: Promoters, Designers, and Builders
**Item 2. Key Actors and Agents in the Building Process**
The Promoter
1. Any natural person or legal entity, public or private, which individually or collectively decides, drives, programs, and funds, with their own resources or outside resources, the building work for themselves or for their subsequent disposal, supply, or transfer to third parties under any title.
- a) Promote ownership over the site of a law authorizing them to build on it.
- b) Facilitate the necessary documentation and information