Guide Center
This is a research and consultative center of the faculties of Business Administration and Engineering, engaged in providing support for business management through the generation of application of knowledge relevant to local and international contexts.

The Center is in a position to offer the best possible support in the management organizations for public and private enterprises in Colombia.

Know-how acquired
In addition to offering important significant experience in research and consultative activities, we have accumulated an academic track record of excellence, which is constantly evolving.

Interdisciplinary Work
The joining of efforts and strengths of the two leading faculties in Colombia enables comprehensive solutions to be generated through the use of state of the art conceptual, methodological, and technological tools.

Institutional Support
Our activity develops within the basic principles of research in the University: Quality, transparence, independence, commitment and service. We also have available the best of human, technological and infrastructure resources.

The Guia center is committed to finding solutions to the problems of Colombia, with the support of prestigious universities and research centers around the world.

The approach
Our interest is centered on the development of strategic projects for Colombia. We promote competitiveness in public and private organizations, and we encourage and establish long-term relations with the entities that contract our services.

Our principal objective is to create value for the client.

Objectives of the Guia Center
We seek to offer substantial and significant contributions to Colombia, and to its public and private enterprises through research and dissemination of advanced knowledge in the field of organizational management.

We also conduct research, which is designed to generate information to allow government entities, industries associations and international organizations to improve their understanding of their own organization and context, and which will also be useful in decision-making.

Finally, we aim to undertake activities in research and consultancy for private enterprise engaged in processes of change. We also develop diagnosis, design, and we accompany the implementation of solutions, depending on clients needs.

Service Portfolio
Diagnosis
- Organizational Diagnosis
- Analysis of context, sector and industry policy and the impact of globalization.
- Analysis of effectiveness, relevance and quality of sector public policy.
- Analysis of institutional reforms.
- Studies of the history of the business.
- Market research.
- Benchmarking.

Design
- Strategy formulation.
- Studies of competitiveness of organizations.
- Processes of financial, technological, operational and organizational restructuring.
- Strategic Planning.
- Performing systems.
- Processes of internationalizations of business and plans for exports.
- Regulation of public services.
- Production Systems: Logistics, models for control and planning in production, cleaner production, operational research.
- Business plans.

Consultancy and accompaniment
- Adaptation of existing technologies, and adoption of new technologies with the support of interdisciplinary groups.
- Preservation of intellectual property regarding technological development.
- State of contracting processes.
- Sell of state enterprises.
- The formation of alliances.
- The processes organizational change.