• The business system : Establishes annual objectives within a strategic 10-year plan defining indicators and goals for teams and associates, including permanent assessments and follow-ups.
  
  
• The technical system : Comprised of processes such as the life cycle of assets, contained in five development models (static, dynamic, environmental, community and economic), supported by an information and technology platform.
  
  
• The social system : Defines the life sycle of associates, competences and behaviors as well as the organization´s structure.

   HOCOL´s strategic Statements

• Strategic intent: Growth and wealth for all, beyond imagination.
  
  
• Strategic Purpose: Creating partnership for sustainable growth.
  
  
• Bold Promise: By 2015 HOCOL is a leading independent Exploration and Production Company of the Americas, having achieved a market value of no less than US$ 2 billion while being true to the Company’s ethical principles, strategic intent and strategic purpose.
  
  
• Cornerstone Principles:

  Responsibility: We freely assume the causes and consequences of our actions, successes, or failures.
  
  Trust: We openly decide to believe in others in order to generate relationships of respect, transparency, and certainty.
  
  Commitment: All of our efforts, decisions, and actions transform our promises into ethical realities.
  
  Integrity: Each and every one of our actions honors our promises, commitments and principles, which is the only way to do business and to live life well..