Informe práctica empresarial Alcaldía de Manizales - Secretaría de TIC y Competitividad

Abstract

Global value chains emerged in the late 1980s, when multinational companies began to disaggregate production processes in companies located in other countries, with the aim of reducing costs. This great advance towards the globalization of production processes was a consequence of the lower costs of international transport, the negotiation of various trade agreements that favored the exchange of goods and services, and the great development of information and communication technologies (ICT). Today, GVCs represent close to 80% of international trade. Currently, a large part of the production and international trade takes place in these chains, which has generated that intermediate goods have great importance in the commercial link between countries. The project that was carried out for the Mayor's Office of Manizales, especially the Secretariat of ICT and Competitiveness, seeks in the first place to offer a conceptual and theoretical mapping of global value chains, which allows generating that initial approach with the subject in question, Subsequently, the analysis of international and national experiences in global value chains (benchmarking) was presented, and in this way, knowing the strategies that others have developed, and ultimately, based on the background information provided, raised a proposal for the application of the methodology of global value chains in Manizales, Caldas.