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Alliance Partner Selection, How Easy Can It Be?

Peter Simoons

Let’s talk about Alliance partner selection! How easy can it be? Some people try to make it really simple. They follow the “executive” approach: one executive meets another and they feel their companies should work together. Then, when they come back into the office, you as the Alliance Manager are assigned the task to make it work. You do get some sort of executive support from the powers that be, but not exactly the type of support you want especially if we refer to executive sponsors.

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Alliance Success: Isn’t It All About Communication?

Peter Simoons

From a high-level perspective, alliances & partnerships can be seen as relationships established between organisations to reach a particular goal that one of the parties cannot (easily) achieve alone. At least that’s the definition! When taking a closer look, I would argue that alliances & partnerships are relationships between the people involved.

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Strategic Alliances: The Crucial Role of Executive Sponsorship in Realising Potential

Peter Simoons

“Who is your executive sponsor for this alliance?” I asked the alliance manager. “I’m not sure,” she replied. This alliance manager had already been looking after the particular alliance we were discussing for two years. Her response, that she was unsure about who the executive sponsor was, then went further downhill! In fact it turned out that she didn’t even know if there was an executive sponsor at all.

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Alliance Success: Isn’t It All About Communication?

Peter Simoons

From a high-level perspective, alliances & partnerships can be seen as relationships established between organisations to reach a particular goal that one of the parties cannot (easily) achieve alone. At least that’s the definition! When taking a closer look, I would argue that alliances & partnerships are relationships between the people involved.

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Alliance Success: What’s Trust Got To Do With It?

Peter Simoons

In my previous article, I wrote that alliance success begins with having an alliance culture in your organisation, but what’s trust got to do with it? The short answer is everything ! Trust influences everything. Trust is essential in establishing successful relationships, after all that is what alliances are; relationships between organisations that are delivered successfully by the people involved and their personal relationships.

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It Starts With an Alliance Culture 

Peter Simoons

“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” is a quote by Peter Drucker that addresses the point that regardless of how good your strategy is, if the organisational culture isn’t set up to support it, your strategy will fail. The same applies to alliances, you can craft the most promising alliance with a partner but if the organisational culture isn’t set up to support it, your alliance is destined to fail.

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Becoming the Best You Can Be

Peter Simoons

As there are many new subscribers to my alliance inspiration email I would like to take the opportunity of using my bi-weekly email to re-introduce myself and my mission! The future of business is in collaboration. Working together with other organisations and teams in Alliances & Partnerships is the best way to develop synergy and create speed.