Ongoing preparation

After I made the decision to walk the Camino to Santiago de Compostela in 2013 my preparation has started. But 7 months in advance preparation may not be the most exciting […]

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What is an alliance and why should I care?

The term strategic alliance has a different meaning for different people. In a roundtable of alliance participants sometime ago we started off with the question “what do alliances mean for […]

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Trust or Control?

Recently, I had two situations in coaching engagements with customers where control was getting in the way of the development of a potential alliance. In one of the cases, the […]

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Early morning walks

To start my preparation for the Camino I decided to make longer walks with the dog in the early morning. Like this morning, when I left at 7am for a […]

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Alliance in logistics

Lexmark and Kuehne + Nagel announced last week to have entered into an agreement in which Lexmark awards Kuehne + Nagel a 10 year contract covering the integrated management of its […]

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Governance

In response to the weekly newsletter one reader wrote to me last week with a question about governance. The reader had to prepare a short presentation about governance and asked […]

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Summer sale

When preparing for this post I felt the title “summer sale” sound a bit ridiculous, but actually I do not have a better word for it. Last Monday I already  wrote about it […]

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Summer vacation and “summer make-up sale”

The summer vacation period is nearing its end. Schools in the Netherlands are getting ready to start with the new school year and I noticed on Facebook that for some […]

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Microsoft Outlook.com: what’s in a name for channel and alliance partners?

Note: This post is from one of our featured guest bloggers, Gianluca Marcellino, who regularly writes in his own blog Business Notes about alliances related topics   On 31st July, […]

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Introducing the first guest writer

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the Simoons & Company weblog would soon be enriched with guest writers. Now I am happy to be able to introduce the […]

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Respect

At the moment I am winding down in France and while doing so I tend to do more sports than in a normal week at home. Having switched from running […]

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Dealing with new competition

Earlier this week Emirates’ A380 landed for the first time on Amsterdam Schiphol airport. Excitement all around. The press paid a lot of attention for this huge airplane and the Schiphol […]

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That's all!

That's all!