Grameen Foundation and partnerships

Last week during the 2013 ASAP Global Summit I was asked on Twitter what my favorite topic or presenter was and without hesitation I answered “presenter: Alex Counts, very interesting […]

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What are you going to do different?

Last week I shared my 7 lessons from the previous three years of entrepreneurship with you. If case you have missed that email you can still read these 7 lessons […]

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My top 7 lessons as an entrepreneur

I am about to reach my three-year point as a full time entrepreneur. Three years ago around this time I was in the middle of the process of leaving the […]

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Three months

Three months from Today I will depart for St Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to commence with my Camino to Santiago de Compostela. It is about 5 months ago we made the […]

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2013 will be an excellent year!

The New Year is just around the corner. Today is the last day of 2012 and I hope you are satisfied when looking back to the past year. With the […]

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Christmas, time for personal alliances

On this day before Christmas I would like to use this opportunity to whish you a fabulous Christmas time. A few days away from business and business alliances, it is […]

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The success of Strategic Alliances

Recently I ran into a new report on strategic alliances by Business Advancement Inc. The report “Building Powerful Strategic Alliances: How Companies of All Sizes Can Increase Their ROI” provides […]

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Legal and practical, a contradiction?

How early do you involve your legal advisor in your alliance discussions? Creating alliances is something we cannot do alone, obviously. But still we all have been in the situation […]

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The successful 6 step approach for strategic alliances

How are you doing with your alliances and partnerships? In the summer I released the first version of my eBook “An introduction to the successful 6 step approach for strategic […]

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Valuable alliances

Last Tuesday I spoke at the customer event of Customer-i to an audience of nearly 50 business managers. You know me and thus the talk was obviously about alliances: valuable […]

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Money spent on training is not an expense – it’s an investment

The recent ASAP State of Alliance Management study shows an average alliance success rate of around 50%. However, the companies that have made investments in the alliance management process consistently […]

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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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That's all!

That's all!