Vision For A Strategic Partnership

Strategic Partnering - remove chance and deliver consistent success - is designed to take the guesswork out and provide you with a ground-breaking and fully encompassing system of rules and processes, to make your partnering strategy a vitally important and transformational reality. Supported by invaluable insights from a wealth of senior leaders across a range of leading global organizations, the book introduces a comprehensive and practical new model of demonstrated methodologies, to remove chance from the partnering process and help you target 100 per cent success. Whether you are a government official, board member, CEO, senior executive, account or procurement leader, marketer or a manager involved in value added relationships within your organization, then this book could be the 'vade mecum' to the development of your successful strategic partnering strategy and prove deeply 'transformational' to the way you think about, run and create value in your organization or business.

What are the characteristics and conditions that lead to successful educational partnerships?What can we learn from partnerships that fail, cannot be sustained over time, or cease to benefit their partners?This book serves as a guide to the successful implementation of partnerships. It provides the context and tools for readers who are responding to the increasing demands of policy makers, funders and institutional leaders to use partnerships to address local, state and federal issues, achieve external mandates, meet public or internal agendas, or pursue international collaborations. This guide provides an evidence-based framework for institutional and organizational leaders to develop the vision, shared values and norms to achieve the “partnership capital” that will sustain an enduring relationship. It offers a three-phase model of the development process of collaboration, together with a tool box for those charged with partnering and leading organizational change, and includes a template for both creating new partnerships and sustaining existing ones.The authors start by differentiating between “traditional,” often ad-hoc, partnerships and “strategic partnerships” that align organizational strategy with partnership actions; and by identifying the importance of moving beyond incremental or surface “first order” change to develop deep “second order change” through which underlying structures and operations are questioned and new processes emerge due to the partnership. They offer analyses and understandings of seven key components for success: exploring motivations; developing partner relationships; communicating and framing purpose; creating collaborative structures and resources; leading various partnership stages; generating partnership capital; and implementing strategies for sustaining partnerships. Each chapter concludes with a case study to provide more understanding of the ideas presented, and for use in training or classes. This guide is addressed to policy makers and educational leaders, college administrators, and their non-profit and business partners, to enable them to lead and create strategic partnerships and facilitate organizational change.

Strategic Partnerships add value to organizations by helping to increase revenue, gain a competitive advantage and achieve success. Adding structure allows partnerships and alliances to thrive. This handbook looks at practical ways to introduce structure to partnerships in three key phases: Choosing Partners, Rolling Out Partnerships and Managing Strategic Partnerships. Business Development and Partnership Managers will find helpful ideas in this book. Also, sales professionals, product managers, corporate development specialists and others considering or involved with partnerships and alliances will find valuable insights.

Partnering with a Purpose 90% of business partnerships fail to meet their goals! The problem? The partnership was not set up for success and was doomed before it ever got off the ground. Partnerships can be very effective and efficient ways of growing your business- expanding into new geographies or new vertical markets, building out your product line, or extending service coverage- but only if they are planned for and implemented correctly. Partnering with a Purpose provides clear guidelines to help you lay the groundwork for a strategic alliance, select the right business partner, and set a course for real success. This easy and fun read points out the pitfalls that are sure to derail your partnership and provides practical how-to instructions for building a successful, mutually rewarding and profitable business alliance.

Structured Strategic Partnerships allow organizations to grow and achieve greater success through partnerships and alliances. This book describes practical ways to add structure to choosing the right partners, rolling-out new partnerships and managing existing partnerships and alliances. All types of businesses are seeking to develop partnerships to accelerate growth and create value. If done properly, these partnerships can lead to success. Too often, partnerships are sensible from a value perspective but the lack of organization in carrying them out leads to lackluster results. Structure is a key ingredient in making partnerships work. Structured Strategic Partnerships is a book that describes many real ways to enhance partnership programs, save time and realize goals. With added structure, the success of partnerships will increase and the bottom line will be improved. Included in the book are checklists and examples that can be used to add structure to both new and existing partnerships.

This practical report draws on the experiences of New Commitment to Regeneration (NCR) pathfinders, which have been an influential model for LSPs, to identify lessons for good practice. Amply illustrated by case studies, the report demonstrates 'what works' in effective strategic partnerships and highlights implications for partner organisations and the role of government. It:locates current developments in the context of evolving urban policy;identifies critical success factors for strategic partnerships;discusses the dimensions of whole systems change necessary for partnership working;indicates key challenges and tasks for LSPs and their partners;points to the need to redefine central-local relationships.·[vbTab]·[vbTab]

Strategic alliances - voluntary, long-term collaborations between firms to achieve their objectives - are attracting increasing attention in business schools because of their growing prevalence among organizations today. Mastering the art of managing strategic alliances allows firms to radically improve their performance and this book provides a detailed, evidence-based approach outlining the design, management, and evaluation of these alliances. Elaborating on the decision-making structures apparent during each stage in the alliance life-cycle and in elucidating cases from across the world, Strategic Alliance Management offers a systematic framework that provides insights into the development and deployment of alliances. Concluding with the three alliance paradoxes managers must address to design and manage their alliances effectively and efficiently, this text offers a profound vision of the key decision-making rationales and processes inherently related to strategic alliances. As such, it will be required reading for students studying the subject and a valuable supplementary reading source to those studying strategic management more generally. A website run by the authors, can be found here: http://www.strategic-alliance-management.com/