Published on January 1, 2012 | http://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2012.01.5286
Production of goods
Producción de bienes
Abstract
Businesses are a type of social organization in which the interactions between the different parts are geared towards the achievement of an objective. The essential characteristic of the productive process is to transform resources in order to obtain goods or services with more value than the sum of the input. If the contrary occurs, the system dies as it is not capable of generating value that justifies its existence. Organizations produce either material goods that are tangible, or services, which are non tangible. Service production has exploded in recent years and health care organizations are an example of this. Health care organizations are highly complex productive systems that must be managed. It is well known that the quality of these services is the consequence of collaboration and cooperation between the elements that intervene in the production process.