When was the last time you were coached in your work?

It is interesting to see an experienced executive as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a short video explain the benefits of a coach. Early in his years as Google […]

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What is in your strategic alliance announcement?

Every day I try to follow the news on alliances that comes to me through some keywords I have set up in Google Alerts. That daily feed contains a lot […]

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The alliance lifecycle to enhance alliance success rate

  Before we can discuss the alliance lifecycle, we need to have an understanding of what alliances are, of why to partner, of what is within the alliance spectrum and […]

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The risks of establishing an alliance with a former divestment.

Last week AkzoNobel announced to have established an alliance with Corn Products International/National Starch. Through this alliance AkzoNobel will act as the global distributor of Corn Products’ line of functional, […]

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Alliance success or failure?

The research on alliance failure rates show a wide range of figures. Ranging on the best side from only a 20% failure rate to on the worst side a 75% […]

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The collaborative business spectrum

We have seen what strategic alliances are and why one would partner in strategic alliances. In this article, we’ll have a look at the collaborative business spectrum. It appears that […]

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Why early opt out of an alliance can be successful

Many people feel that an alliance is only successful when it delivers to its goals. I would argue that leaving an alliance early can be a matter of success. Take […]

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Why would you partner in strategic alliances?

In the previous article in this series we looked at what strategic alliances are. Why would you partner in strategic alliances? In this article we will dive into the reasons […]

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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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That's all!