Dr. Carlos Flores Alcocer
Strategic Management consultant, information technology executive and academic. For more than four decades he has led planning processes for governments, companies and social organizations, from diagnosis through execution and follow-up.
A rare profile: strategist, technology executive and academic, with experience at the highest level across the public, private and social sectors.
Dr. Carlos Flores Alcocer helps governments, companies and social organizations set their direction and turn it into results. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from Lancaster University and is the author of the Systemic Model of Strategic Management for Organizations®, proven in more than 1,100 planning sessions with over 300 organizations.
Few consultants combine public planning experience at the highest level with executing strategy inside a company. He headed the Office of Strategic Planning and Regional Development in the Office of the President of Mexico and served as Mexico's Ambassador to the OECD. He was methodological lead and director of the Guanajuato 21st Century study, and methodological lead on projects such as the Chiapas 200 Initiative. Today he is a Strategic Management consultant, Corporate Director of Planning and Information Technology at Grupo Industrial Mexicano, where he leads the adoption of Oracle Fusion Cloud, and teaches Strategic Thinking at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
He sees the organization as a human activity system, shaped by the decisions of its key actors. His processes bring those viewpoints together to build consensus and commitment to the agreed direction.
Every strategic plan ends in projects with owners, indicators and monitoring dashboards, backed by IT platforms.
Public, private and social sectors, in Mexico and abroad: energy, mining, health, manufacturing, higher education and civil society.
The Systemic Model of Strategic Management grew out of his doctoral research at Lancaster and has been refined over more than three decades of practice. It moves through six phases across two spaces: the conceptual space, where decisions are made, and the real space, where they are carried out.
Analysis of the internal and external situation. The group identifies, prioritizes and structures problems into a map showing how they reinforce one another.
Mission, values, vision and overall objectives that become the criteria for every later decision.
Strategic lines and a prioritized portfolio of projects with owners and initial indicators.
Prioritized initiatives become fully scoped projects with teams and targets, following project management good practice.
Launch of priority projects, managed through a project management office.
Executive dashboards and a Balanced Scorecard to track progress and adjust course with timely information.
Sessions are facilitated with Interactive Management, Interpretive Structural Modeling and the GroupMap collaboration platform, tools that bring order to complexity and lead groups to clear decisions.
The working group brings together the different worldviews of the organization's key actors. Seeing a problem from several perspectives reduces the risk of partial solutions and builds commitment.
Each process closes with a full record: diagnosis, problem-aggravation map, mission, values, vision, objectives, strategic lines, priority projects and their overlap and strategic alignment analysis. It is a basis for implementation, not a report to be filed away.
Modelo Sistémico de Administración Estratégica para Organizaciones® · Dr. Carlos Flores Alcocer (1992, 1993)
Each service can be engaged on its own or as part of a complete process, from diagnosis through to results monitoring.
Design and facilitation of the conceptual-phase sessions with a representative group, delivered with a full record of the process.
Methodological support for project leads and their teams to turn prioritized initiatives into projects ready for approval.
Executive dashboards, Balanced Scorecard and a project office to measure progress and sustain the strategy over time.
State and regional plans, sector programs and development initiatives led by the business community.
Aligning technology investment with government and/or business strategy: cloud enterprise platforms such as Oracle Fusion Cloud, business intelligence, AI-enabled solutions and geospatial information systems.
Conceiving and launching planning institutes, councils, associations and centers, from strategic framework to operation.
A selection of processes and initiatives in which he took part as lead, consultant or facilitator.
As Corporate Director of Planning and IT, he designed and leads the GIM 4.0 program, which grew out of the group's strategic planning. It covers the Oracle Fusion Cloud (ERP, HCM and CX) implementation across the corporate office and every operating company, with standardized processes and a single information base for decision-making.
The group's strategic planning model and an Oracle E-Business Suite implementation across the corporate office and its companies, integrating supply chain, finance and sales, with a business intelligence model for senior management. Oracle recognized it as the best implementation in Latin America in 2012.
From the Office of Strategic Planning and Regional Development in the Office of the President, he took part in the inter-agency process that produced the National Development Plan 2001–2006 and the national programs. He led the design of the Federal Government's Strategic Planning System, which linked planning to the budget through performance indicators.
He was methodological lead and director of this participatory planning study for the state's integrated development, involving more than 2,000 leaders from the public, private and social sectors. It informed the programs of several successive state administrations.
The state's core government plan, the state planning council and 46 municipal planning committees, six regional councils, and a training program for mayors and councils with national and international study visits.
State Development Plans for Michoacán (2016–2022) and Guanajuato (2018–2024), the latter including a planning workshop with the governor and key state stakeholders; economic development programs in more than ten states, in collaboration with CIDE's Public Policy Laboratory; regional processes for central-western and south-southeastern Mexico.
Methodological leadership and coordination of an integrated development plan for Chiapas driven by the state's Business Coordinating Council, with civil society participation: sector strategies, priority projects and long-term policy proposals.
A completed project, carried out with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, to plan Sonora's industrial development and capture nearshoring opportunities. The process led to the Sonora Industrial Parks Association.
Planning processes and institutionalization of strategic management at Iberdrola México, Minera México (Grupo México), Farmacéutica Maypo, Astrum Satelital (Grupo Proeza), Collectron and Grupo Flexi, among others.
Design and implementation of territorial analysis platforms that combine digital mapping and demographic data to guide strategic decisions in the field.
Design and institutionalization of the strategic management process, with planning processes in 42 academic units.
Strategic planning processes for Nacional Monte de Piedad, Early Institute, the ANUIES South-Southeast Region and the Querétaro Food Bank.
Design and launch of the institution. Research projects with RAND Corporation and Queen's University (Canada); a Master's in Political and Civic Action jointly awarded by Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria; programs with George Washington University.
Founder and first president of the first center of its kind in Latin America. Under his leadership it produced Guanajuato's first human development report and Mexico's first state-level human development index.
Reopened the embassy, secured Mexico's chairmanship of the 2004 Ministerial Council Meeting, increased Mexican participation in OECD committees by 70% and promoted reviews in education (PISA), health and regional development.
Proposed and secured the creation of the centre in Trento, Italy, the first OECD centre outside its Paris headquarters.
Collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank's Institutional Capacity of the State Division, which informed its studies on strengthening the Centre of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean.
From Madrid, he designed the strategy that allowed an international consulting firm to expand into Morocco, Algeria and Libya.
Institutions, companies and organizations he has worked with over his career.
Principal positions, most recent first.
Designs and teaches Strategic Thinking to undergraduates and assesses graduating candidates in Business Strategy and Transformation.
Responsible for the group's business and technology strategy. Leads the Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation across the corporate office and its operating companies (GIM 4.0).
Strategic Management processes for organizations in all three sectors. Public sector: IMSS, INECC and INJUVE; State Development Plans for Michoacán and Guanajuato; Tamaulipas's state security program; economic development programs for Oaxaca, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Durango, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Nayarit and Guanajuato with CIDE's Public Policy Laboratory; and regional processes for central-western and south-southeastern Mexico. Private sector: Iberdrola México, Minera México (Grupo México), Farmacéutica Maypo, Astrum Satelital (Grupo Proeza), Collectron, Grupo Industrial Mexicano, the Chiapas Business Coordinating Council and the Sonora Industrial Parks Association. Social sector: Nacional Monte de Piedad, Early Institute, ANUIES South-Southeast, the Autonomous University of Chiapas and the Querétaro Food Bank. Strategic partners: CIDE, Ateze Consultores and the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
Led the School's strategic plan to 2025 and the update of its graduate programs.
The group's strategic planning model and an Oracle implementation across all its companies, recognized by Oracle as the best in Latin America in 2012.
Projects for Grupo Difusión Científica, Congeladora y Empacadora Nacional (a J.R. Simplot Co. subsidiary), the Virtual University of the State of Guanajuato and Grupo Fármacos Especializados, among others.
Courses in strategic management, decision-making and change management. Conceived the model for today's Guanajuato Museum of Art and History.
Took part in producing the National Development Plan and national programs; the Federal Strategic Planning System, decision-support systems and a regional development model spanning five regions of the country.
Strategic planning for the state government, decentralization of functions to the state and municipalities, and social development programs.
Strategic planning consulting for more than 200 organizations in construction, manufacturing, services and public administration, including Grupo Flexi, Brantano, Química Central, Emca Constructora, Hoteles Coloniales and the Ministry of Tourism's Colonial Cities Program.
Institutions whose design, redesign or creation he has led, all connected to planning and strategic management.
Published plans, studies and research, and a selection of national and international speaking engagements.
Flores-Alcocer, C. (dir.) (2024). Iniciativa Chiapas 200: Plan de Desarrollo Integral del Estado de Chiapas. Consejo Coordinador Empresarial de Chiapas.
Flores-Alcocer, C. (dir.) (1993). Guanajuato Siglo XXI, volumes I–III. Centro de Estudios Estratégicos, ITESM Campus León.
Flores-Alcocer, C. (2006). El humanismo político como corriente de pensamiento actual en México. Research dissertation, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid.
Flores-Alcocer, C. (1991). Bringing about Strategic Thinking into Small Mexican Organisations: A Systemic Approach. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.
Brown, D. H. & Flores-Alcocer, C. (1991). Strategy and Small Organizations: A Systemic Approach. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Council for Small Business – Canada, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Systemic Strategic Thinking as an effective tool for fostering integral development of regionsInternational Society for the Systems Sciences, Mini Symposium · View session
Intermodal Transport Forum for Industrial and Logistics Development, Chiapas and South-SoutheastSpeaker · State Government of Chiapas
Oracle OpenWorld, Executive SummitSpeaker on the Grupo Fármacos Especializados implementation · San Francisco
Public Service Training Program, PSP Ibero-AmericaFaculty · Guilé Foundation, Boncourt, Switzerland
Decentralization of Employment Policy and New Forms of GovernanceRepresentative of Mexico · OECD, Warsaw
International Conference on Financing for DevelopmentSpecial guest · United Nations, Monterrey
State of the World Forum GuanajuatoDesign and organizing committee
SISTÉMICA International Working ConferencePresenter · Andean Systems Institute, Trujillo, Peru
International Council for Small Business – CanadaSpeaker and panelist · Trois-Rivières, Quebec
1st International Symposium on Artificial IntelligenceSpeaker · Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Honors, appointments and scholarships.
Recognition for coordinating the Chiapas 200 InitiativeChiapas Business Coordinating Council and Universidad Descartes
Recognition for contributions as adjunct professorPresident of Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Best Oracle implementation in Latin AmericaOracle Corporation
Board member, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Morelia Campus
Chair of the LEED Programme Directing CommitteeOECD, Paris
Presented the National Development Plan 2001–2006 at the National PalaceBroadcast nationally
Leaders of the Future Program, representative of MexicoGovernment of France
International observer, Presidents' Summit for America's FuturePhiladelphia, United States
Proclamation by the Mayor of Austin for his role in the International Interactive SymposiumAustin, Texas
Graduate scholarshipsCONACYT, Overseas Research Students Award (UK) and the Rotary Foundation
Graduated with honors, first in his classInstituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Organizations that work with Dr. Flores Alcocer come away with a shared vision, clear priorities and projects ready to execute. His method is backed by more than 40 years and over 300 organizations, from mid-sized companies to state and regional development planning. If your organization is about to set its direction, transform its operations or launch a high-impact initiative, now is the time to talk.