The soft skills we need for alliance relationships

Relationships are often taken for granted. However, successful relationships are hard work, regardless of the type of relationship you’re in. When you are in alliances you probably know by experience […]

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Perfection: does it exist?

Many people strive to perfection in life and in the work they do and I have been one of them. Whatever project I was working on I only delivered it […]

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Apple and IBM – Can they make 1+1 become 3?

It’s all over the inter-webs: Apple and IBM announced a strategic alliance yesterday! A bold move that brings together two companies in different areas of the ICT field. Once competitors […]

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I need your help! (Summertime – Reflection time)

Summertime is a good time to reflect and to adjust course where needed. This time I need your help to reflect on my writing: You know I like to write […]

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Is your alliance a walk in the park?

If you are following my blog already a bit longer, you will probably know that I walked the Camino to Santiago de Compostela last year April. All together it was […]

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What my Volvo shares with Strategic Alliances

Ever since I was a little boy I have had a thing with classical Volvo’s. When I was a kid my parents drove a DAF, a small Dutch car with […]

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You’d better make it work!

It’s Monday morning and you just arrived at the office, when you receive a message from the CEO; you need to drop by his office. You call his assistant to […]

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What is your Return On Partner Investment?

Two companies, let’s call them East and West, had been in an alliance for 5 years and everything seemed to be fine. However, to the big astonishment of the people […]

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Brilliant failures in business collaboration

What do you learn the most from, your successes or failures? What do you share with others, your successes or failures? In my weekly podcast I interview guests on their […]

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What is your biggest challenge in business?

My biggest business challenge as a solo entrepreneur is maintaining the balance between finding customers, doing marketing, delivery of services sold and in the mean time maintaining my knowledge and […]

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Collaboration in business: happy together?

Over the past week I have been in several conversations about collaboration. These conversations are not necessarily about strategic alliances as we know them, but about the broader field of […]

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Are you gambling with the collaborative economy?

Arriving at my hotel last week, I was caught by surprise. I wondered, is this a hotel or a casino, or is it me after 18 hours of travel? It […]

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