Alliance portfolio management seminar

For many outsiders creating alliances may seem easy. You know better, creating alliances and maintaining them is hard work. And it requires continues work; when you are working with alliances […]

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The daunting task of measuring alliance success

Measuring alliance success can be as difficult as it is important. On one side you would like to know how your alliances are performing, on the other hand what metrics […]

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Expanding on the definition of a strategic alliance

In a previous post I wrote down the definition of a strategic alliance as: “A strategic alliance is a strategic cooperation between two or more organizations, with the aim to […]

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The definition of strategic alliances

Alliances are an increasing important strategic way to help organizations grow. In 1998 Yves Doz and Gary Hamel already wrote “No Company can go it alone” as the opening statement […]

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Do you need a process for alliances?

Some weeks ago I posted a question in a YouTube video. As simple as the upload process seemed somehow the system managed to get audio and video out of sync. […]

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How to measure alliance success?

Today the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) chapter in the Benelux will conduct a round table. When I started to organize this table I asked a few people what […]

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Functional mapping in alliance management relationships

Do all the stakeholders in your alliances know who their counterparts are? Functional peer mapping can help make it clear to everyone involved. At the end of our alliance management […]

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Can people who do not share internally be successful in alliances

Trying something new Today, posting a question in a video. Looking forward to your responses. Share them in the comments please!    

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Professional Certification in Alliance Management – part 3

In part 1 of this series about Professional Certification in Alliance Management we have been reading about the certification program and it’s levels, in part 2 we have seen what […]

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Professional Certification in Alliance Management – part 2

In yesterday’s post we looked at the ASAP Certification program and how it is constructed, now let’s Today have a look at what actually will be tested and what the […]

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Professional Certification in Alliance Management – part 1

At the end of the 2012 ASAP Global Alliance Summit I sat down to do my exams for the advanced level of alliance management certification, the CSAP level. The past […]

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What happens when winter comes to visit your alliances?

This year many of us thought winter had decided to forget about the Netherlands. We were already thinking about spring and even nature seemed developing that way. Many flower buds […]

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That's all!