“Pittsburg not Paris” – where is the collaboration?
The President of the United States announced last month that the US would disengage from the Paris Agreement, a global commitment within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The voluntary, non-binding agreement was reached after years of long negotiations by representatives of 195 countries and adopted by consensus end of 2015. [Read more…]
Business partner strategies are outstanding ways to grow your revenues and capabilities across multiple dimensions:
Please click on the link below to listen to the second part of the business radio interview we carried out recently with a few select partners who explain the value of the ecosystem for their firms.
http://atlantabusinessradio.businessradiox.com/2015/03/09/partner-strategies/
International business development to grow revenues and capabilities can be done in three ways:
My firm, Alliances Progress, was invited to be interviewed on the subject of collaborative frameworks and how they work to grow businesses internationally through strategic alliances and business ecosystems. Here is the link to that interview:
http://atlantabusinessradio.businessradiox.com/2015/02/12/alliances-progress/
At a recent BioPharma conference organized by the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (A.S.A.P.) in Boston, impressive examples of strategic alliances and advanced partnering solutions were put forth and discussed by professionals in the industry.
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…]
Business partnering is the development of formal strategic relationships between independent companies to achieve better results than one could reach on its own. The most common goal is to grow revenues and go-to-market capabilities. Business partnering can also enable cost savings by pooling fixed and variable costs.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Success Event this Monday will review and renew the progress being made towards the eight international development goals agreed to by all 189 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations.
Governance as a Service is a concept which is catching on quickly in the corporate world as a separate process from the traditional leadership and decision-making processes. [Read more…]
Ecosystems to grow your revenues and capabilities is an intelligent option for many professional services firms.
Ecosystems, within a context of business development, are communities of common interest, partnerships, groups of experts which come together to provide services to their clients. The growth strategy through ecosystem development involves business partnerships outside one’s own firm and often outside one’s traditional channels to market.
What if cities could talk? What would they say about the way energy is managed? Water? Parking? Traffic? Public transportation? What would the city tell us about its health care systems? Educational institutions? Municipal government?
What would the city tell us about its infrastructure? Buildings? Roads? Bridges? Electrical Grids? Sewage systems? Pollution? Public safety? Parks? Connectivity and communications?
What about soft indicators such as human urban dweller well-being? Quality of life? Tolerance? Diversity? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?