Alliance Governance: (how) does it work in your alliances?

What is alliance governance In “Alliance Advantage” Alliance Governance is by Yves Doz and Gary Hamel described as: “Alliance Governance defines how an alliance is managed, how it is organized […]

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Define your alliance exit before you start

What is in your alliance business plan, would you define the exit strategy already, before you even start with an alliance? After having selected your partner and having reached on […]

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A former chief of Police’s view on collaboration reflected to alliances.

In an article on the website of Inc magazine is described how former Chief of Police William Bratton talks about his eight points of preparedness for working together in a […]

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What can we learn in alliances from ad hoc airline teams?

Last week I had the opportunity to spend 4 gorgeous days at beautiful Bonaire. It was exciting in many ways to undertake this trip. It was my first and certainly […]

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The new Fiat / Mazda alliance, what will be their challenges?

Last month Fiat and Mazda announced to have formed an alliance to codevelop the next Mazda MX5 aka Miata. This same model will be the base for Alfa Romeo’s (a […]

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The first phase of starting strategic alliances

One of the first things we need to do when establishing alliances is to align strategic imperatives for the alliance. When we omit to do so, it may be a […]

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When was the last time you were coached in your work?

It is interesting to see an experienced executive as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a short video explain the benefits of a coach. Early in his years as Google […]

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What is in your strategic alliance announcement?

Every day I try to follow the news on alliances that comes to me through some keywords I have set up in Google Alerts. That daily feed contains a lot […]

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The Alliance Lifecycle to Enhance Alliance Success

Before we can discuss the alliance lifecycle, we need to have an understanding of what alliances are, why to partner, and what is within the alliance spectrum. Especially after the […]

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The risks of establishing an alliance with a former divestment.

Last week AkzoNobel announced to have established an alliance with Corn Products International/National Starch. Through this alliance AkzoNobel will act as the global distributor of Corn Products’ line of functional, […]

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Alliance success or failure?

The research on alliance failure rates show a wide range of figures. Ranging on the best side from only a 20% failure rate to on the worst side a 75% […]

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The collaborative business spectrum

We have seen what strategic alliances are and why one would partner in strategic alliances. In this article, we’ll have a look at the collaborative business spectrum. It appears that […]

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That's all!

That's all!