How to measure alliance success?

Today the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) chapter in the Benelux will conduct a round table. When I started to organize this table I asked a few people what […]

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Functional mapping in alliance management relationships

Do all the stakeholders in your alliances know who their counterparts are? Functional peer mapping can help make it clear to everyone involved. At the end of our alliance management […]

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Can people who do not share internally be successful in alliances

Trying something new Today, posting a question in a video. Looking forward to your responses. Share them in the comments please!    

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Professional Certification in Alliance Management – part 3

In part 1 of this series about Professional Certification in Alliance Management we have been reading about the certification program and it’s levels, in part 2 we have seen what […]

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Professional Certification in Alliance Management – part 2

In yesterday’s post we looked at the ASAP Certification program and how it is constructed, now let’s Today have a look at what actually will be tested and what the […]

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Professional Certification in Alliance Management – part 1

At the end of the 2012 ASAP Global Alliance Summit I sat down to do my exams for the advanced level of alliance management certification, the CSAP level. The past […]

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What happens when winter comes to visit your alliances?

This year many of us thought winter had decided to forget about the Netherlands. We were already thinking about spring and even nature seemed developing that way. Many flower buds […]

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The position of the alliance office in a corporate organization

While doing some research for a client last week I ran into this piece by Dyer, Kale and Singh from 2001. A report about the position of the alliance office […]

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The role of a strategic alliance professional

Many organizations are struggling to maintain or grow their business in current economic times. Traditional organic growth asks for investments that may overstretch Today’s budgets. Acquiring other companies requires substantial […]

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Interview: three questions for…

Earlier this year I became a member of the International Business Club of the World Trade Center Almere Area (WTCAA). This business club offers a platform for business networking with […]

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Does your company have an Alliance brand?

Does your company have an alliance brand and how important is it for your organization to be recognized as an alliance brand? Steve Steinhilbers book on strategic alliances was face […]

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What is in your Alliance Lifecycle?

This morning I researched a couple of resources about the alliance lifecycle and noticed that the cycles I found all differ and still are somewhat similar. Quite understandable as every […]

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That's all!

That's all!