What Makes a Good Alliance Manager?

This was a question I was asked in a recent conversation. The answer to that question, to a certain extent, depends on the type of organisation you are in and […]

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Changing Your Leadership Habits

Leadership is often seen as something that is connected to a top-down hierarchy. This is a logical way of looking at leadership; after all, we often use the term leadership […]

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How Important is an Alliance Manager for the Success of a Partnership?

Those are all questions with an obvious answer, aren’t they? There is a similar question around alliance management: How important is an alliance manager for the success of a partnership? […]

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Where Do You Find Your Next Alliance Manager?

In my previous column I mentioned that alliance management is a separate profession and that the profession, together with a structured process, is needed to drive alliances to success. In […]

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Alliance Management is not Rocket Science

In our Alliance Masterclasses we like to keep it very practical, in the sense that what we discuss in class can directly be applied to a participant’s situation. In between […]

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Are Alliance Managers Just “Born” That Way – Or Are They Moulded?

Recently I presented to Dr. Brian Tjemkes’ Alliances, Mergers and Networks Program at the VU University in Amsterdam. In good 2020 style, this presentation was fully online. Nevertheless it was […]

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Congratulations, you’ve become an alliance manager!

You just had a conversation with your boss and HR and they have assigned you with the task of alliance management. You always knew it was something special to be […]

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CBP-28: What is an alliance manager?

https://media.blubrry.com/collabbiz/www.petersimoons.com/cbp/CBP28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDuring the past week I read a blogpost by Karyn Greenstreet, containing three simple tips about using Google Analytics for your own website. One […]

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The world lost an alliance manager

While I was thinking about the passing of Nelson Mandela during my daily morning walk last Friday, elements from his autobiography “Long walk to Freedom” crossed my mind. I read […]

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The value of a central alliance management department

The value of an alliance management department and the use of a systematic approach towards alliances; how to make this value tangible and visible to senior management? A challenging question […]

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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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