Alliances & Partnerships

Another book to read and site to subscribe to

Yesterday I mentioned the work of Keith Ferrazzi and the books he wrote. Today there is another professional that is absolutely worth to give your attention too and that is Ford Harding. Ford wrote amongst others the bestseller "Rainmaking" in...

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A great example of collaboration

This weekend I ran into the video below and shared it with several people. Looking and listening to it a bit more I felt this even to become a better movie. It is not only a good song, produced for...

Alliances to create internet access through the third screen

So far the Internet is mainly being accessed through the PC and the mobile devices. In the latest step in the digital convergence we see that also a third screen is going to provide access to the Internet: the Television....

Customer relationships, now more than ever.

We are writing April 1988 and I am having my first job interview for a sales job. The sales manager interviewing me is opening the discussion about sales with the statement that a sales person in his team should be...

IBM report on Alliances between the life sciences industry and academia

IBM recently published a report about Alliances between the Life Science industry and Academia: Past collaborations between the life sciences industry and academia have not always been successful, due in part to the conflicting needs of university research and commercial...

IBM teaming with Google and Continua for Personal Health Records

IBM (NYSE: IBM), in collaboration with Google and the Continua Health Alliance, today announced new software that will enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routine evaluation to automatically stream data results into a patient's Google Health...

Strategic alliances not only for companies

Most of the times we read about strategic alliances it is about two companies entering an alliance. This article talks about how the Guam Museum Foundation has formed partnerships to secure their existence and grow their presence. Over the last...

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...