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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Alliances we face everyday

There are many alliances we no longer see as special, but accept as completely normal. Alliances are of great importance for the airline industry. These alliances are already so embedded […]

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Shared values in an alliance

Last week IVI and Sabin Vaccine Institute announced to form a Strategic Alliance to Develop Vaccines for the World’s Poor. From many perspectives this is a nice announcement. This alliance […]

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My reading-list for this summer

It is summer, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, time to wind down and re-energize. Also time to read some more than in an average working week will be done. […]

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Partnering to increase the pie

When coming from a traditional competitive environment, one where you fight with your competitors for the same deal, you might be hesitating to share with competitors. On the other hand, […]

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The Alliance Mastery program – almost ready

The Alliance Mastery program is almost ready for launch. What started about six weeks ago with an vision will become reality over the next weeks. Writing out the classroom workshops […]

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Are strategic alliances part of your strategy?

When it comes to business strategy, alliances are often part of the execution approach, they are not seen as a separate strategy. In these situations the overall strategy defines where […]

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Development perspectives for alliance managers

In a recent conversation I was asked how organizations could professionalize their alliance department. In this case it was a large organization with a centralized alliance department. The global director […]

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Working your alliance skills

Today is another workshop day for me. I am in Heidelberg in Germany and will be delivering a private in-house workshop for 10 alliance managers of a global organisation working […]

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Three more C’s for Strategic Alliances

In the blog post “The three C’s of Alliances” I elaborated on the need to have Collaboration, Communication and Coordination in place. I cross-posted that blog post to the LinkedIn […]

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Alliance announcements that jumped out this week

Every week many new alliances are being announced and not every announcement is crystal clear on what the parties have in mind. Most often the element what the announcement brings […]

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Are alliance professionals a different kind of people?

An alliance manager is a job role that asks for a special kind of professional. Are alliance professionals a different kind of people? In a recent conversation someone asked me […]

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That's all!

That's all!