Alliances & Partnerships

Alliances: the Senseo effect

As ASAP chapter in the Netherlands we will organize a lecture on March 11 in Amsterdam with Alfred Griffioen called "In search for your Senseo effect". More and more companies create strategic Alliances to enable growth and especially in current...

Imperfect harmony: Alliances within the life sciences industry

IBM's Institute for Business Value recently published a report about Alliance creation within the Life Sciences industry. As the summary states it: The number of major alliances between large biopharmaceutical companies and smaller biotech firms or academic institutes is soaring....

@eDragonu – Partnerships

Dragos Florin Roua (edragonu on twitter) runs a nice blog, with most recently a series of articles about "The Making Of An Online Business". The latest article from yesterday is about Partnerships. In this article Dragos provides us with a...

Alliance Advantage

Yves Doz & Gary Hamel's Alliance Advantage might not be the newest book on creating Alliances, it is however still very valid and a great read. The book can almost be seen as the ultimate handbook to creating Alliances. After...

M&A or Alliances

Both M&A and Alliances need time to find the proper candidate and develop the partnership or acquisition. Alliances are to a lesser extend governed by regulations that need to be taken into account, however don't think that with that an...