Where we are?
- Globalization of competition in more and more product markets. The proliferation of competitors due to successful late industrialization processes (East Asia), and the good result of structural adjustment and export orientation (European Economic Union). The differentiation of demand. Focus on the tangible and intangible needs of the customer. Shortening of production cycles Implementations of radical innovations: new techniques (biotechnology, genetic engineering, etc.) Great advances in technological systems that force the redefinition of the boundaries between different disciplines. Example: Telematics.
THE SYSTEMIC COMPETITIVENESS.
Companies must readjust both internally and in their immediate environment, on three different levels:
- In production organization: Replacing traditional assembly lines and transfer systems for manufacturing cells and islands, responding more quickly to the customer, reducing inventories and lowering the cost of working capital. In organizing product development: Parallel organization of different stages of development. (Concurrent engineering). In the organization and relations of supply: Specialization for competitiveness, reduction of direct suppliers and / or transformation to suppliers of integrated systems.
Mexican Companies
What can we say about Mexican companies?
Mexico is today the country with the most extensive network of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in the world. It has a network of 11 FTAs with 32 countries on three continents, which represents an opportunity to access a potential market of 870 million people.
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