Nelson Antonio Moreno-Monsalve

El rápido ritmo del cambio tecnológico, las demandas cambiantes del mercado y la volatilidad económica global impulsan a las organizaciones a buscar continuamente la eficiencia operativa. Esta búsqueda a menudo implica la adopción de estrategias que enfatizan la capacidad de respuesta y la anticipación, asegurando una posición sostenible en el mediano y largo plazo. El concepto de ventaja competitiva se refiere a la capacidad organizacional de crear valor que satisfaga las necesidades de sus clientes. Los sistemas de gestión de la calidad pueden ser una fuente de ventaja competitiva para las organizaciones si se fortalecen las capacidades necesarias para lograr una posición distintiva. Por lo tanto, las capacidades dinámicas de absorción adquieren significado, siendo el conocimiento la verdadera fuente de diferenciación organizacional. Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo establecer la relación entre las capacidades dinámica de absorción y el nivel de madurez de los sistemas de gestión de la calidad. En este estudio, se encuestó a 100 líderes de calidad. Los datos fueron procesados mediante un método de análisis factorial multivariado. La conclusión preliminar del estudio muestra que los sistemas de gestión de la calidad deberían madurar al mismo tiempo que las capacidades dinámicas de absorción de las organizaciones, Destacando la importancia del talento humano y el desarrollo de sus capacidades como factores clave para asegurar la calidad y crear valor para los distintos grupos de interés.

The manufacturing sector can be considered the main driver of economic growth in countries, as demonstrated by the macroeconomic variable GDP. However, during the pandemic, the historical rise in exchange rates and the increase in inflation and interest rates resulted in countries’ negative performance. Currently, Colombia ranks last in the world in terms of productivity among OECD member countries. This problem is reflected in the Santander region, where production and sales variables have experienced negative changes, in addition to a stagnation in employment in the manufacturing sector. The objective of this work is to design a financial composite index to measure competitiveness, in addition to analyzing its implications for measuring performance and the capacity to execute projects in manufacturing companies. For the development of the research, an index called FPIMS was estimated for 2392 companies. Correlational analysis was then carried out and the companies were categorized. Finally, machine learning models were used to predict the FPIMS value. The results show that the proposed index can be a useful tool to determine project execution capacity in manufacturing companies in Santander.

Nowadays, any consideration regarding project management implies an all-encompassing approach constituted by three perspectives: organizational, human, and engineering. In this sense, it is necessary for the project manager to reflect on various issues, such as ethics, the understanding of the environment, leadership, teamwork, achieving results, change in management, the adoption of new technologies, and knowledge management, among many others, all this with the intention of ensuring success through value creation, consistent and aligned with the expectations of the different stakeholders. Because of the adoption of a comprehensive vision of project management, disciplines such as philosophy have become logical within the reasoning of organizational management. Classic postulates such as those of the Stoic school have become references for modern leader-managers because of their approach associated with personal development, self-discipline, self-control, logic, balance with the environment, and the creation of social value. The research analyzed how the postulates of the Stoic philosophy can determine the high performance of project teams. To achieve this, 70 project managers from different small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in Bogotá, Colombia, were surveyed about the seven main thoughts of Stoicism and the possible relationship with the performance of their project teams. Based on their answers, a correlational model of structural equations was applied to obtain the conclusions of this study. The results obtained in this investigation are intended to contribute significantly to the maturity and modernization of the project management discipline.

Best practices in project management have been positioned in the organizational field as a suitable alternative to achieve the planned objectives. Learning capacity is one of the most important advantages of any organization, linked to human talent and business culture. This research sought to establish the relationship between organizational learning capacity and effectiveness in the management of the projects executed. In this study, 192 project managers were surveyed. The data were processed through a multivariate factor analysis method with the purpose of specify the relationship between the proposed variables. This research allowed us to understand learning capacity as a multidimensional variable that positively affects project management.

The Paris Climate Change Conference, developed within the framework of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, emphasized the importance of establishing specific goals regarding the care and future of the environment, in addition to strategies that would allow for the execution of actions, to find a balance between climate and energy generation, being one of the most relevant problems in the current economic context worldwide. In this sense, this research aims to develop an analysis of the performance of energy generation projects with non-conventional sources carried out in Colombia, finding their relationship with the departmental competitiveness index and with the air quality indicator. The preliminary results of the analysis show a high dispersion between the different variables of the selected projects and, in turn, a strong relationship between the number of users benefited by the results of the studied projects and the CO2 emissions generated by their execution.

Los comportamientos éticos son la clave para generar valor en los distintos grupos de interés y están relacionados con valores personales o creencias. En este sentido, este libro buscar difundir varias reflexiones desde la óptica de la dirección de proyectos, la gestión organizacional y la realidad empresarial, tratando temas como ética, proyectos y organización; talento humano, grupos de interés y liderazgo; al igual que proyectos, entorno y competitividad. Así, los autores le dan al lector un punto de partida sobre cómo los valores, las creencias, la cultura y el comportamiento inciden en los resultados de las organizaciones y en su índice de competitividad. Por lo anterior, esta obra, dir

Los comportamientos éticos son la clave para generar valor en los distintos grupos de interés y están relacionados con valores personales o creencias. En este sentido, este libro buscar difundir varias reflexiones desde la óptica de la dirección de proyectos, la gestión organizacional y la realidad empresarial, tratando temas como ética, proyectos y organización; talento humano, grupos de interés y liderazgo; al igual que proyectos, entorno y competitividad. Así, los autores le dan al lector un punto de partida sobre cómo los valores, las creencias, la cultura y el comportamiento inciden en los resultados de las organizaciones y en su índice de competitividad. Por lo anterior, esta obra, dirigida a académicos, empresarios, gerentes, funcionarios gubernamentales y profesionales de cualquier campo, constituye una eficiente alternativa de dirección organizacional, que será una herramienta útil para instituciones académicas, estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado, en áreas de la gestión, los negocios, la ingeniería y el emprendimiento.

The discipline of project management has been maturing over time, integrating positively with some organizational approaches, such as strategy and sustainable development, to meet current needs without risking future capabilities. In this sense, it is observed that measuring the success of a project only from the classic mechanistic perspective of the triple constraint: scope, time, and budget, is insufficient; this opens a space for a new variable of social progress: the creation of value. Thus, the objective of this study is to identify the degree of relationship between the success of the projects and the sustainable development approach, managing to determine through the results obtained some opportunities for improvement in light of the economic and organizational context. As a starting point for this research, a review of the literature associated with topics, such as sustainable development, value creation, and modern trends in project management, was carried out. The second step was to design and apply a structured survey to 148 Colombian companies that develop projects in different sectors, such as technology, infrastructure, and services. With the information collected, a structural equation modeling—SEM model was applied to determine the relationship between the selected variables. Finally, the results of this research showed that the success of a project that is carried out under a sustainable development approach has a positive tendency toward the creation of value. In conclusion, it is found that the four dimensions studied: impact, relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency, allow us to explain to a greater or lesser extent the success of the projects through their approach to sustainable development and value creation.

Organizational culture can be defined as the set of characteristics that distinguish one organization from another through the establishment of norms and values that describe the behavior of the people who work there. Little by little, organizations have realized that digital transformation goes far beyond a simple technological change; it requires the alignment of organizational strategy, people, culture, mentality, the development of human talent, and leadership. The purpose of this research work is to identify, through the application of a correlational statistical model, the impact of the organizational culture on the success of digital transformation projects.

In a business context characterized by constant change, companies highlight management models focused on the growth of people and, derived from this, on the generation and proper management of knowledge. In this sense, business leaders have understood that the adoption of good management practices within companies is an incremental process, framed in time and backed by the ability to learn their employees have. Therefore, business maturity could be understood as a constant process of transformation, in which the knowledge that resides in the workers is the main piece to reach an optimum level of excellence. The research work aims to highlight the importance of knowledge management models in organizational maturity processes, specifically with respect to the cycle of adoption of good project management practices. This study is supported by a thorough bibliographic review that allows us to contrast organizational learning capacity with the ability to adopt good practices.