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What is Alliance Management?

Peter Simoons

During a recent conversation, I was asked what Alliance Management is. Later on, looking at my own website I learned, to my surprise, that in the 13 years of writing this column I have written about many aspects of Alliance Management, but never about the basic question of, “What is Alliance Management?”

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IEEE-ISTO Celebrates 25 Years as Trusted Partner in Helping to Deliver Technology Innovation

ISTO / IEEE

Serving as a Federation of members trade groups/alliances/consortia, ISTO provides a neutral, secure, non-profit legal infrastructure within which technology collectives can collaborate effectively in support of their respective technology missions. ISTO’s impact is realized in a quote from A.J.

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Trust or Control? “My CEO Wants a Joint Venture”

Peter Simoons

Trust building starts the moment we first contact a potential partner and continues all the way through the negotiation and design phases and into the alliance management phase. Relying on trust over control does not mean that we don’t need a contract for our alliance.

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To Incorporate Or Not to Incorporate…That is the Question!

ISTO / IEEE

by Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations. Today’s need to deliver continuous innovation in global markets has most high-technology companies understanding the benefits of forming strategic not-for-profit alliances to provide product/technology solutions. Step Two: Forming a Legal Entity.

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How to Choose the Right Board Members for your Association?

ISTO / IEEE

Introduction The function of a board is to govern an association or organization. It is important to have the right people on your board to manage these critical components of an organization. You might want someone with legal expertise or someone who has worked within an organization or tech alliance of your niche before.

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The Art of Stakeholdering: A Critical Prerequisite to Successful Collaborations

ISTO / IEEE

by Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations. They willingly engage and contribute to work product that can be significantly impactful to their company and their sector in industry, government or academia. We all know what a “stakeholder” is. Now let’s talk about “stakeholdering”, a term used less often.

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Why the DOD Approached ISTO To Form a Consortia and Develop Standards

ISTO / IEEE

It is involved in technology standards work through working groups and committees that enable open discussion among industry experts, government officials, and members of the public prior to making decisions about what should be included in specific standards. ratified material from the International Standards Organization (ISO).