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Prepare Your Partnership by Following a Structured Alliance Process

Peter Simoons

This is the complete, seven-step structured alliance process as described by ASAP: Step 1: Alliance-specific strategy Step 2: Analysis and selection Step 3: Building trust and value creating negotiation Step 4: Operational planning Step 5: Alliance structuring and governance Step 6: Launching and management Step 7: Transform, innovate and exit.

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The Crucial Role of Governance in Determining Alliance Success

Peter Simoons

If your governance structure includes unnecessary duplications, it’s time to reassess it. This simplified outline of an effective governance structure assumes a single alliance structure. Alliance governance should be designed during the early stages of alliance creation and formalised in the alliance contract.

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25 Tips for Successful Partnerships & Alliances

Peter Simoons

You will work to build trust with your partner and form an alliance where the values of both partners are respected and each strategic vision is represented. This phase will normally be concluded with a contract Launching & management : is all about alliance operation; the newly established business partnership is in execution.