What is an alliance and why should I care?

The term strategic alliance has a different meaning for different people. In a roundtable of alliance participants sometime ago we started off with the question “what do alliances mean for […]

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Trust or Control?

Recently, I had two situations in coaching engagements with customers where control was getting in the way of the development of a potential alliance. In one of the cases, the […]

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Alliance in logistics

Lexmark and Kuehne + Nagel announced last week to have entered into an agreement in which Lexmark awards Kuehne + Nagel a 10 year contract covering the integrated management of its […]

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Governance

In response to the weekly newsletter one reader wrote to me last week with a question about governance. The reader had to prepare a short presentation about governance and asked […]

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Summer sale

When preparing for this post I felt the title “summer sale” sound a bit ridiculous, but actually I do not have a better word for it. Last Monday I already  wrote about it […]

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Summer vacation and “summer make-up sale”

The summer vacation period is nearing its end. Schools in the Netherlands are getting ready to start with the new school year and I noticed on Facebook that for some […]

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Microsoft Outlook.com: what’s in a name for channel and alliance partners?

Note: This post is from one of our featured guest bloggers, Gianluca Marcellino, who regularly writes in his own blog Business Notes about alliances related topics   On 31st July, […]

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Introducing the first guest writer

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the Simoons & Company weblog would soon be enriched with guest writers. Now I am happy to be able to introduce the […]

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Respect

At the moment I am winding down in France and while doing so I tend to do more sports than in a normal week at home. Having switched from running […]

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Dealing with new competition

Earlier this week Emirates’ A380 landed for the first time on Amsterdam Schiphol airport. Excitement all around. The press paid a lot of attention for this huge airplane and the Schiphol […]

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Alliances we face everyday

There are many alliances we no longer see as special, but accept as completely normal. Alliances are of great importance for the airline industry. These alliances are already so embedded […]

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Shared values in an alliance

Last week IVI and Sabin Vaccine Institute announced to form a Strategic Alliance to Develop Vaccines for the World’s Poor. From many perspectives this is a nice announcement. This alliance […]

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That's all!

That's all!