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How to Use a Strategic Alliance to Get Ahead: Whether you’re looking to share risk, resources, or expertise, a strategic partner might be exactly what your company needs to grow and develop in ways that it couldn’t on its own. The Three Stages of Strategic Alliances Source: Harvard Knowledgebase ...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Strategic Alliances, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Strategy, Partnership, Alliance, Strategic Alliance, Collaboration, Timberland Co., Starbucks Corp., Metrics; Articles 2008-06-20
Katzenbach Partners Profile, Pt. 1: How Employee Empowerment Vaulted Them to the Top Tier: Management consulting is an industry built on trust and a solid reputation. A perusal of the most prestigious firms as ranked by employment researcher Vault yields the fact that nearly all of the top twenty-five have been around a while and assembled large staffs of consultants. So how does a...; Tags: Team Management, Katzenbach Partners, Management Consulting, Empowerment, Partnership, McKinsey & Co., Team, Strategy, Management, Jeff Palfini; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Competitive Strategy: Partnering For Competitive Advantage: The right business strategies are necessary for people who are trying to start an online business venture. Nearly everyone is on the Internet nowadays, so it is very important that you understand how the Web works, so you can use it to your advantage. In order to have a successful...; Tags: Partnership, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Strategy, Business Strategy, Managementsite, Business Structures, Internet, Strategy, Marketing Research, Finance, Management, Marketing; White papers 2007-12-01
Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work: The Idea in Brief The number of corporate alliances soars 25% a year. And those partnerships account for nearly 33% of many companies' revenue and value. Yet the failure rate for alliances hovers at 60%-70%. According to Hughes and Weiss, that's because too...; Tags: Jeff Weiss, Finance, Partnership, In Brief, Management, Jonathan Hughes, Harvard Business Review, alliance, competition, Business Structures, strategy; Articles 2007-11-16
Developing a Channel Strategy: What’s the best way to sell into a new market or improve performance in existing markets? You can build your own sales force to sell directly to customers or use an indirect channel partner to reach customers. You can also use other channels such as the Internet. The decision is...; Tags: Marketing, Partnership, Product, Customer, Outlet, Service, Decision, Channel Partner, Distributor Sales Force, Sales Strategy, Business Structures, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales Force, Branding, Marketing Information, Strategy, Channel, Sales, BNET Editorial; Articles 2007-11-16

Collaborating for Improved Product Development: More and more companies are collaborating on product development programs. The objective is to reduce production costs, make better use of skilled, specialist resources, and speed up the time to market. Tools like videoconferencing and the use of secure extranets have simplified collaboration. What You Need to KnowWhy is...; Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, Business structures, Groupware, BNET Editorial, product development, product life cycle, collaboration, team, partnership, collaboration tool, globalization, Extranet, competitive advantage, marketing, project management, benefit, outsource, su; Articles 2007-10-31
How to simplify the IT infrastructure with end-to-end automation of document processes: Businesses continue to face rising pressure to cut costs and increase profitability while also improving customer satisfaction and partner relations through efficient communication. To accomplish this, leading companies are automating document-based business processes to improve communication with partners, customers and suppliers -- and they're looking to their CIOs to make...; Tags: Management, Finance, Strategy, Business Structures, Automation, Esker S.A., Information Technology, Partnership, IT Infrastructure; White papers 2007-10-01
Trends In Training Your Extended Enterprise - Partners And Customers: With the pressures of globalization and increased competition, more companies realize the value of cost-effectively reaching these audiences and providing enhanced knowledge and learning - often training on certifications and compliance readiness. Companies find value driven by increasing partner and customer satisfaction and product usage and in many cases, decreasing...; Tags: SumTotal Systems, Partnership, Compliance, Audience, Training, Business Structures, Globalization, Workforce Management, Finance, Strategy, Management, Human Resources; White papers 2007-03-26
Experiences From Large Embedded Systems Development Projects In Education, Involving Industry And Research: This paper presents experiences from a final year M.Sc. course. The overall aim of the paper is to provide knowledge and skills to develop products in small or large development teams. The paper is implemented in terms of large projects in cooperation with external partners, in which the students, based...; Tags: Education, Business Structures, Industry, Knowledge, Partnership, Paper, Strategy, Finance, Management; White papers 2006-10-01
Asymmetric New Product Development Alliance: Are The Gains Symmetric Across The Partners?: Interorganizational alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation, particularly in high technology markets. Many New Product Development NPD alliances tend to be asymmetric, that is, they are formed between a larger firm and a smaller firm. These asymmetric alliances typically result in changes in the shareholder values of...; Tags: Strategy, Product Marketing, Finance, Management, Marketing, Partnership, Alliance, Shareholder, Business Structures, Shareholder Value, New Product Development; White papers 2006-04-01
New Strategies Private Equity Firms Are Using to Enhance Returns: Facing high valuations, growing competition and mounting pressure from limited partners, private equity firms are seeking nontraditional strategies to achieve more predictable returns. For some, this has meant shifting exit preferences away from the initial public offering market, with an eye toward partnerships with strategic investors. For others, it has...; Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Partnership, Private Equity Company, Business Structures, IPO, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financial Services, Management; White papers 2006-04-01
The Power of Partnering: Linking Your Way to Increased Visibility: Linking opportunities exist in places so obvious that one probably overlooks them - from partners and affiliates, to advertisers and vendors. Leveraging existing business relationships is a no-brainer to jump-start an effective linking strategy. An immediate benefit to starting this way is "manageability of scale." The potential universe of sites...; Tags: Internet, Business Structures, iProspect, Partnership, Strategy, Finance, Management; White papers 2005-11-22
United Way Launches Innovative Strategies and Partnerships to Increase the Financial Stability of More Americans: Three hundred and fifty corporate, government, nonprofit and faith-based leaders gathered this week at the 2008 Financial Stability Leadership Summit in Chicago, where United Way announced one new and several ongoing, innovative partnerships toward the goal of cutting in half the number of lower income working families who...; Tags: financial, partnership, strategy, United Way; Research articles 2008-06-05
Upfront: How to Make Mergers and Alliances Work: A lack of internal alignment is the most common reason why mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances so frequently fail to meet expectations, according to Boston-based consulting firm Vantage Partners. Companies that do not adequately align internal resources in support of a transaction may find that managers make poor decisions when...; Tags: Alliance, Partnership, Merger, Penton Media Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Structures, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management; White papers 2004-10-01
Strategic Sourcing for Total Cost Management: Turning Suppliers Into Partners: This whitepaper presents a step-by-step explanation of how strategic sourcing and Total Cost Management provides product companies with tremendous benefits by transforming suppliers into partners throughout the product lifecycle. With purchasing expanding its focus from solely pricing to strategic alignment and information exchange, companies are realizing improved profit margins and...; Tags: Business Operations, Finance, Marketing, Management, Channel Management, Business Structures, Purchasing & Procurement, MatrixOne, Supplier, Cost Management, Partnership, Sourcing, Strategy; White papers 2004-07-14
Is Your Organization Changing as Fast as Your Business Is Changing?: It's no secret that over the last ten years or so virtually every business and every working person has been buffeted by constant and relentless transitional - and, at times, even transformational - forces. However, the key to competitive advantage in these tumultuous times is still not broadly acknowledged. This...; Tags: Partnership, Business Structures, Strategy, Finance, Management; White papers 2004-06-30
Business Strategies and Human Resource Management: Uneasy Bedfellows or Strategic Partners?: This paper starts with some of the classics in strategy and HRM; go on to look briefly at some major studies, or the ones that have influenced my thinking. Thereafter the paper notes the problems with the assumed link with competitive strategy as a dominant, or the dominant, force in...; Tags: Partnership, HRM, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; White papers 2004-06-14
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Planning for Program Changes and Future Workforce Needs Is Incomplete: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA is the lead federal agency responsible for improving the quality and availability of prevention and treatment services for substance abuse and mental illness. The upcoming reauthorization review of SAMHSA will enable the Congress to examine the agency's management of its grant...; Tags: Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Business Structures, Workforce, General Accounting Office, Grant, Administration, Partnership, Strategic Planning; White papers 2004-06-01
Networks, Partnerships, Clusters And Intellectual Property Rights: Even more than larger firms, SMEs Small and Medium Sized Enterprise need to access external sources of information, knowledge, know-how and technologies, in order to build their own innovative capability and to reach their markets. They can only partly secure such access through markets for goods, services, IPRs (Intellectual Property...; Tags: Network, Partnership, Small And Medium Enterprise, OECD, Strategy, Smb/Sme, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Right, Knowledge, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2004-06-03
New Venture/Large Firm High Technology Strategic Alliances: Getting at the Heart of Performance Question: Entrepreneurs face tremendous odds in launching and growing a successful business. This is especially true in high technology industries where new venture entrepreneurs have difficulty in obtaining financial and other resources. In order to overcome these odds, high technology entrepreneurs form strategic alliances with larger firms to obtain critical resources....; Tags: Strategic Alliance, Partnership, Performance, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Business Structures, Strategy, Management, Finance; White papers 2004-04-22