Technology trends for business productivity increase

This reflection paper aims to summarize some of the technology trends that companies can use in their business processes to increase productivity and improve the competitiveness of the sector and country. It is based mainly on an official documentation study of both national and international author...

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Autores:
Patiño Builes, Albeiro
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Corporación Universidad de la Costa
Repositorio:
REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/2565
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/11323/2565
https://doi.org/10.17981/ingecuc.11.2.2015.09
https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
Palabra clave:
Competitiveness
Business
Productivity
Information and communications technology -ICT
Rights
openAccess
License
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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Summary:This reflection paper aims to summarize some of the technology trends that companies can use in their business processes to increase productivity and improve the competitiveness of the sector and country. It is based mainly on an official documentation study of both national and international authorized entities. First, some characteristics of the ICT and its influence in companies over the last years are shown; and finally, the conceptualization and benefits that Internet, Telework, e-Learning and Cloud computing represent today to com-panies in the productive sector are analyzed. It is con-cluded that ICT, and trends based on them, can make simpler and more agile processes in companies, and also, strengthen their skills to face increasingly demanding markets, whenever globalization and Free Trade Agre-ements (FTA) call to companies from all sectors to be more effective and efficient