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Alliance Failure and Alliance Success: The 80% Rule

Peter Simoons

This is what I term, the 80% rule: 80% of ad hoc unstructured business partnerships and strategic alliances fail, while contrariwise, 80% of the companies that follow a structured approach establish prosperous business partnerships and strategic alliances. Ineffective governance structure. Poor partner assessment.

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Prepare Your Partnership by Following a Structured Alliance Process

Peter Simoons

Remember how we mentioned earlier, that you need to be in the winning side of the 80% rule if you want your partnership to succeed? The fact is 80% of ad hoc unstructured business partnerships fail, while 80% of the companies that follow a structured alliance process towards creating partnerships emerge successful.

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25 Tips for Successful Partnerships & Alliances

Peter Simoons

Introduction to Successful Partnerships & Alliances. Many of the innovations that changed the way we live today are the result of successful business partnerships. The partnership of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, for example, gave us the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone. Some work while some don’t.

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How to Plan, Manage, and Measure Strong Channel Business Partnerships

Successful Channels

The thesis of this article is that there are a set of universal characteristics to build deeper and longer-lasting channel business partnerships that can identified and codified. During that time, he studied organizations and governments and concluded the importance of collaborations and partnerships for creating stable alliances.

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From Cave Walls to Boardrooms: The Evolution of Collaboration

Peter Simoons

For these companies, collaboration is governed by detailed contracts dictating terms and expectations. Success and failure in business collaborations occur across this trust-control spectrum. Building a successful partnership requires a foundation of trust. Doing so provides a common foundation for the collaboration.

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A drop in the ocean

Stellar Partnerships

I know that mentioning my holiday will test the business partnership as Sharon holds the fort in her thermal onesie. Given that the VIC government has mandated a 50% gender equity target for construction companies by 2030, they’re a long way from where they need to be.

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Climb Global Solutions Acquires DSS, Continues Empowering Channel Partners

Channel Insider

Reseller finds trust, respect, and growth with Climb relationship Cybersecurity VAR Secure Content Technologies has utilized Climb as a distributor for several years, though CEO Karen Greer describes the working relationship between the two companies as a true business partnership. But Climb has been so much more than that for us.