ABSTRACT

Strategic alliances offer organisations an alternative to organic growth or acquisition when faced with the need to develop the business to a new level, innovate in terms of products or services or significantly reduce costs. The Strategic Alliance Handbook is a clear and complete guide to the nuts and bolts of the process behind successful collaborations. The book enables readers to understand the commercial, technical, strategic, cultural and operational logic behind any alliance and to establish an approach that is appropriate for the type of alliance they are seeking and the partner organisation(s) with whom they are working. Whether you are an alliance executive, responsible for the systems, strategy and performance of your organisation's alliancing programme or an alliance manager needing to ensure the success of a given partnership, The Strategic Alliance Handbook is an essential guide.

part I|40 pages

Emerging Alliance Best Practice

chapter 1|20 pages

Alliance Success Factors

chapter 2|18 pages

Common Challenges

part II|68 pages

Alliance Analysis

chapter 3|9 pages

Benchmarking Alliance Relationships

chapter 4|10 pages

Organisational Alliance Maturity

chapter 5|9 pages

Alliance Optimisation

chapter 6|36 pages

Creating a New Strategic Alliance

part III|100 pages

Common Success Factors

chapter 7|28 pages

The Commercial Dimension

chapter 8|18 pages

The Technical Dimension

chapter 9|21 pages

The Strategic Dimension

chapter 10|12 pages

The Cultural Dimension

chapter 11|18 pages

The Operational Dimension

part IV|34 pages

Special Strategic Alliances

chapter 12|20 pages

Co-opetition: Sleeping with the Enemy

chapter 13|12 pages

Insource/Outsource/Smartsource

part V|76 pages

Developing Alliance Capability

chapter 14|17 pages

Partnering with SMEs

chapter 15|8 pages

Developing Alliance Programmes

chapter 16|7 pages

Alliance Standards and Schemes

chapter 17|36 pages

The Strategic Alliance Professional

chapter 18|4 pages

Collaboration: The Future