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Alliance Failure and Alliance Success: The 80% Rule

Peter Simoons

This is what I term, the 80% rule: 80% of ad hoc unstructured business partnerships and strategic alliances fail, while contrariwise, 80% of the companies that follow a structured approach establish prosperous business partnerships and strategic alliances. Ineffective governance structure. Poor partner assessment.

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Prepare Your Partnership by Following a Structured Alliance Process

Peter Simoons

Remember how we mentioned earlier, that you need to be in the winning side of the 80% rule if you want your partnership to succeed? The fact is 80% of ad hoc unstructured business partnerships fail, while 80% of the companies that follow a structured alliance process towards creating partnerships emerge successful.

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Partnership Challenges No One Talks About

Compass Point

This bliss creates a blind spot to important conversations that are needed about how to scale and manage growth, when to hire staff, how to handle compensation, who to select as new partners, how to create governance, and ultimately how a partner will exit and cash out. Because you WILL exit someday. Common Threads and Greater Complexity.

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A drop in the ocean

Stellar Partnerships

I know that mentioning my holiday will test the business partnership as Sharon holds the fort in her thermal onesie. Given that the VIC government has mandated a 50% gender equity target for construction companies by 2030, they’re a long way from where they need to be.

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Leadership in Accounting: 30 Key thought leaders in the accounting industry

Jake Jorgovan

What you can learn from Jennifer Warawa: People in the accounting field can learn from Jennifer about using technology to streamline accounting and working well with business partners. She shows the benefits of business partnerships and how staying up-to-date with technology can help accounting firms grow and adapt to new challenges.

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How decreased venture capital raising may impact your business

Powerlinx

For businesses meeting only dead ends and closed doors in the venture investing scene, alternative sources of funding offer a potential lifeline. Government grants and contracts, such as those offered through the SBIR program , offer up one possibility. The benefits of joint ventures.

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How to Effectively Manage Strategic Partnerships

Aepiphanni

There can be strength in numbers, and successful business partnerships and strategic alliances are a testament to this. The same study reveals that alliances account for nearly a third of a business’ revenue and value. A business partnership can be fragile, and it needs conscious cultivating.