First of all, deepest condolences to the loved ones and friends of those innocents who have lost their lives or have been injured in many different ways.
This attack, coming ten months after the Charlie Hebdo killings, has hit much deeper and more personal into the French territory. This is the French 9/11. It changes things for France and for Europe. We will now test the Schengen agreements and the open Europe will close a little more. [Read more…]
Humanist values are universal and trump all others as an overriding principal of conduct in business relations.
As a strategic alliance expert who makes his living designing and optimizing international ecosystems, I often come across the issue of “cultural differences.” How do we achieve maximum efficiency and optimal team work across vast areas of beliefs, education, behaviors and organizational structures? [Read more…]
Apprenticeship is a model of training passed down from one generation to the next. The explicit goal is to pass along a specific competency, a basic set of skills, in a structured manner. Most of the training is on-the-job working/learning within the framework of a formal agreement.
Is the apprenticeship model still relevant? [Read more…]
Collaborative sales have become the standard way of doing business and generating revenue growth for many companies. Collaborative sales through strategic alliances are more elaborate strategies to find new channels to market, augment capabilities and grow revenues. [Read more…]
Are all international treaties a form of strategic alliances?
The short answer is: yes, they are. Strategic alliances take many forms in politics, business agreements and in social relations. One of these forms of strategic alliances which we all recognize from history are treaties between nations. [Read more…]
Strategic alliances and new ways of working go hand-in-hand.
Strategic alliances involve putting together partnerships which are designed to create more value for each organization than each one could generate on its own. They are strategic because the relationships are more than transactional commercial agreements. They are alliances because they imply long term frameworks, over multiple years, with complex and codified rules of cooperation.
New ways of working concern all the organizational and behavioral aspects of the way we produce goods & services, mostly driven by technology innovations and ubiquitous information. Our relationship to space and time is being modified. We are physical and virtual at the same time. We are always on, 24/7. We share effortlessly our work products without paper or the need to be sitting next to each other. [Read more…]
Transnational Organizations was a term we used extensively in the 90’s to put forth a different version of what it meant to “go global” or “become international.” As a practitioner and a junior consultant, traveling the world to implement change management projects for large corporations (usually called Business Process Re-Engineering or Enterprise Resource Planning or Global Shared Services…), it was fascinating to see the different forms companies could take. [Read more…]
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