Competitiveness and Innovation on the Frontier of Knowledge: 25th Anniversary Postgraduate in Administration TecNM Tijuana

Abstract

Tecnológico Nacional de México (TNM) is the largest Technological Higher Education Institution in Latin America. The TNM is made up of more than 260 Institutions, among them the Tijuana Technological Institute, which offers the Postgraduate Master's Degree in Administration since 1994. Professional practice in any discipline after 5 years on average, naturally generates the challenges of manage: the resources, people and processes under its responsibility; In this context, the development and application of professional skills and applied research becomes essential for successful professional development in a city as competitive as Tijuana, to direct public or private organizations that impact the country's competitiveness. The administration is considered like a science because it possesses an ordered set of knowledge about a common object of study, the "organization"; It is considered as a technique because it has procedures, principles and rules that, in its exercise, provide those who develop it with expertise and skills in solving problems; and as an art, because it is the creative application of the person who executes that set of scientific knowledge and principles in particular circumstances and for specific purposes, which requires simple, harmonious and integrative solutions. The graduate profile is a competent professional to analyze, create and manage projects aimed at continuous improvement through the systematization and optimization of processes and resources; diagnose, design and develop strategies, and make decisions in intervention processes in organizations of the productive sector of goods and services, according to the socioeconomic and cultural reality of the country, fostering the competitiveness of the region and the growth of the country with a vision global. The Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico Campus Tijuana has trained for almost half a century (50th anniversary 1971-2021) the Mexican professional talent and for more than 25 years the Postgraduate in Administration, has provided new applied research skills, on the most dynamic border between Mexico and the United States of America, the CALI-BAJA mega region.