Actions to be addressed by the Basic Electric Organization to consolidate marketing activity in the short and medium term:

1. Studies of market segmentation to achieve relative differentiation and customization of the customer relationship, from which could be provided after-sales service and accommodations load power factor improvement and others.

2. Conduct studies to develop the center roadway comprehensive customer service with the aim to achieve:

§ Reduce the actions of customers to get answers to their concerns.
§ Focusing efforts and resources on customer service.
§ Enter the telephone service to our clients in all settings of the Electric Basic Organization

3. Conduct studies to determine the advisability of reading the meter private clients every 3 or 6 months, which is expected to:

• Reduce expenditures for reading and billing.
• Reduce the actions to be performed by customers or the Electric Basic Organization.
• Make a better service to our clients’ commercial claims without increasing staff.
•  Reduce staff dedicated to the reading activity.

4. Implement measures to facilitate the change of the corporate image of the Electric Basic Organization on the basis of achieving assimilate technological changes and the remodeling of the buildings of our Sales Offices.

5. Apply a more functional in the municipality Tunas, thus guaranteeing a more streamlined care to clients of the provincial capital. Consider creating a Center for Integrated Customer Service.

6. In relations with our preferred suppliers, establishing contracts that managed to obtain updated technologies, total cost minimum payment and delivery facilities within the required time of supply. In the case of investment, employment must be achieved as complete packages to ensure proper implementation of projects and technology transfers.

7. Use of ancillary services and information for Cuban Industrial Property Office on trademarks and patents for the analysis of non-traditional providers with those necessary to establish negotiations, which are the responsibility of each of the specialized areas that require the product or service under negotiation, for which the appointment of a representative before the Office.

8. Responsibility for the final selection of supplier for investments rests with the Technical Department.

Nominal investment will comply in Resolution 13/98 of CITMA supply and is not engaged at all if there is not the opinion of this body on the transfer of technology and environment.

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References are key to any recruitment process; many people go to an interview process without knowing whether the interviewer has spoken with his former bosses, colleagues and subordinates.

With regard to his regime, in a recent interview has legitimized his brother Raul changes being introduced in the Cuban economy. With his assertion that “the Cuban model no longer works either for us,” the octogenarian Cuban leader has created a controversy that has dislocated his supporters inside and outside the Caribbean island. So apparently, the interviewers interpreted clear message as well: it was the recognition of the failure of the Cuban Communist economic model and a tacit support for the change of direction that Raul Castro and the old nomenclature are being implemented gradually. In a later speech Fidel wanted to clarify his intentions, merely to ensure that it’s “response meant the exact opposite of what the two American journalists interpreted on the Cuban model.” A denial confusing enough to have no validity.

In any case, the fact is that the Cuban dictatorship has announced it will create small businesses and they may hire labor and sell their products directly. These reforms will join other qualifiers, such as authorization of multiple jobs or the distribution of land among small farmers. In addition, it will promote tourism in the island and in the hands of foreign companies, with the construction of golf courses and is going to lift the ban on home purchases by foreigners.

It is noted developments on the horizon “to the Chinese” the Cuban regime: the gradual introduction of elements of the capitalist economy in terms of small property and individual initiative, while the oligarchy of the regime holds as long as you can the control of major economic sectors. All this in order to gradually integrate Cuba into the capitalist world without giving up its monopoly of political power.

This raises two questions predictable way. A geo-strategic in nature, affecting the Caribbean region. The strengthening of economic and political ties between Cuba and the PRC is in contradiction with the strategic alliance of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has signed with Iran. Be seen how this difference affect the close strategic relationship of dependency between Caracas and La Havana’s have a list of people who will refer, because sometimes we wonder. A tip that someone gave us a recruitment firm is ever in job interviews that you do in recruiting companies out names of your former bosses, colleagues, people on a team with which he worked.

Information obtained in the field is forced to prepare data for analysis. In this post, quickly develop some guidelines for the preparation of information such as encryption, file creation, consistency and weight.

Once collected the data, provide codes relevant to the categories or alternative response of questions of the measuring instrument. Coded categories, we proceed to develop the codebook. Return in another post with the design guidelines of the codebook.

The coding can be made before or after lifting the information in the field. The coding can be made at time of questionnaire design, if the categories were pre-coded and the meter has no open questions.

On the contrary, postcodificación is to establish a code to each of the possible answers ready to be mentioned at time of interview in the open questions of the questionnaire. Therefore, the obtained postcodificación done all of the information.

The results of the measuring instrument are transferred to a matrix or database, using as support the codebook. Without the codebook, cannot be encoded and an array of database meaningless. The creation of the data file involves two steps: the recording and definition of the file.

In turn, the recording of the file can be committed in two ways: manual, i.e. using the computer keyboard, or mechanically with the use of optical scanners. The optical scanners read the codes and transcribed simultaneously.

The definition of the data file has protocols related to each statistical package. These protocols will be developed in detail in subsequent deliveries.

Information obtained in the field and finished recording and definition of data file, it must establish guidelines or procedures for quality control of data prior to analysis. Here soon some notes about the consistency of quantitative data.

Definitely, the consistency of data is a crucial time, complex and laborious process of preparing information for analysis.

The purpose of data consistency to ensure the quality of information. The consistency of data is performed in two stages or phases: at first, completed the recording and definition of the data file. In a second time by the systematic review of each of the variables and their relationship with others.

Designed the data file, i.e. the design of the study variables and their format, consistency begins with the application of filter controls and quotas.

It must pass through a filter selection control of the universe under study in order to verify that all the respondents belong to the objective universe.

In addition, the data must pass through a quota control, in order to verify that the composition of the sample matches the sample design.

In a second step, it checks to determine variables by procedure descriptive statistics, frequency distributions of all variables and relationships between them.

These procedures and protocols are critical in the process prior to analysis. It is necessary to carry out this stage of the consistency of a rigorous and systematic. Completed all these steps, the information shall be submitted for analysis.

Finally, the sample obtained in the field should be proportional to the distribution of the universe or population. Therefore, before starting the analysis of the data, we must verify that each individual or respondent in the sample has a weight proportional to the population distribution. The technique of assigning a weight to each individual or interviewee is called sampling weights.

In subsequent deliveries will develop in more detail these patterns of preparing information for analysis. This post is intended to serve as an introduction to the workshop by Spas Data Analysis. In the first session of the workshop, by way of introduction, we will discuss this and other memos, essential for the success or failure of any investigation. Until then.

The Cabled de Tenerife allocated 220,000 euros to launch 100 new business initiatives through the annual call for grants and to allow the creation of 233 jobs, as reported in a statement insular institution.

The counselor island of Economic Development, Trade and Employment, Refrain Medina, said that “now more than ever we must support the implementation of new business initiatives that pique the entrepreneurial spirit to develop the island’s economy.” Precisely, and as a means to support the creation of new businesses, the council convenes every year a line of support for the financing of entrepreneurship, “thereby facilitating the generation of stable employment and productive innovation insular.”

The projects presented are related to different economic sectors, but predominantly in the field activities of the services and retail. In particular, they highlighted the number of enterprises run by the catering sector (cafes and restaurants), retail, business services (consulting, advisory services) and people such as hairdressers and beauty centers, alternative therapies, sport or training. Also have been other industry-related projects such as the establishment of enterprises manufacturing wooden toys, gofer mill, fruit packaging, among others. Most of these companies constitute the legal form of the individual entrepreneur and to a lesser extent, as limited partnerships.

The Cabled of Tenerife has earmarked this year a total of 220,000 euros to finance part of the cost of providing, commissioning and initial start-up companies. The amounts to be charged amount to a maximum of 6,000 euros to finance current expenditure and the same amount for investment, although such subsidies may be increased in the case of employing people with disabilities.

As specified in the rules of the call could be eligible for such assistance to new firms that generate stable jobs, which have economic and financial viability and that the case of companies with fewer than 50 workers.

The Office for the Reorganization of Transport (Porte) states that until 31 May this year had spent more than RD $ 3.349 billion to build the first faze of Line its ambitious road system Metro de Santo Domingo.

This amount is far from released by the same institution on 10 March, when a document delivered to the medium said that until then had only “used” $ 10 million dollars in “the documentary and the preliminary work” that at the current rate is equivalent to RD $ 368.6 million.
From two statements that, in less than three months, that entity paid nine times what it had invested since construction began work in 2009 until March this year.
The amount of resources (RD $ 3.349 million) also exceeds by a wide margin the amount of planned expenditure for the State in the Second Line of the Metro, it was a game of 6% of the total expected cost.
As Porte estimated a total investment of $ 750 million ($ 27.645 million pesos), the State would only have to pay $ 45 million, i.e. RD $ 1658.7 million, and the concessionaire would provide the rest.

That is, public investment made so far is double the total amount expected in the original plan, although it still lacks two-thirds of the civil works (66%), according to Lionel Carrasco, assistant director of the Porte.
According to a list of contracts by which this entity has delegated the work, the RD $ 3.349 million has been paid to 68 companies that received grants to work on diversions, fences, walls, earthworks, drainage, civil works and prefabricated, both in the path of the train or Perimeter Avenue or Del Rio.
Among firms with greater amounts contracted are Constructor Faced, who until late last month had signed 19 contracts for a total of RD $ 296.6 million; Updates Technology in Construction (Attic) contained five agreements for a total of RD $ 260.5 million; clearing Task Force, which had signed nine with awards totaling $ 186.9 million and RD Male spin with 18 for a total of RD $ 153.9 million.

However, officials lacked data accuracy, because even if the institution determined that the report includes the complete list of its contractors and subcontractors omitted the names of some companies are also involved in the construction of this arm of the Metro, as the Modesto and Cytec Group.