Strategic planning for the innovation of small and medium enterprises in the city of barranquilla-Colombia

Abstract

The challenges that modern companies face in a competitive environment where innovation is the cross-cutting issue of their daily practices, providing SMEs, in particular, the need to internalize new management schemes that allow them to formally redefining their strategies in order to promote of innovation within their organizations. Hence the objective of proposing a strategic management model for innovation SMEs according to their needs, capabilities and resources. For this, a documentary study was carried out, in which information from scientific articles, books, dissemination magazines and websites was reviewed and collected to later interpret and analyze the information obtained with a proactive scope using as principal authors: Sánchez, Cervantes and Peralta (2016); Pérez (2014); Aguilera (2010); Johnson, Scholes and Whittington (2006), among others. It concludes with the design of a strategic addressing model that articulates innovation to the daily practices of SMEs, thereby achieving better management impact.