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Bridging Cultural Differences: The Key to Stronger Collaboration

Peter Simoons

Beyond national cultures, organisational culture plays a crucial role in business collaborations. Cultural awareness is essential for successful collaboration, whether within a team, an alliance, or a joint venture. Without them, collaboration weakens, and misunderstandings grow. Schedule an exploration call with me today.

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Blue Mantis Acquires Colligio, Creates Collaboration Practice

Channel Insider

Through the acquisition, Blue Mantis has formally added a collaboration and unified communications practice to their long list of strategic offerings and technology services. Kelley will now serve Blue Mantis as the vice president of collaboration and unified communications.

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How to Collaborate Among Competitors?

Peter Simoons

In a recent virtual coffee call, I was asked how to organise a governance structure for a collaboration of 10 competitors. The role of the alliance manager in this collaboration was critical. Should it be someone from the initiator, who was one of the largest companies in the collaboration? Establish a Steering Committee.

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The Benefits of a Collaborative Culture

Peter Simoons

When we talk about alliances, we tend to focus on the external component: collaborating with other organisations. By itself that is correct, after all alliances are collaborations between two or more organisations to accomplish a goal that one of the organisations cannot achieve on its own. So we do need external parties!

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

How to optimize content creation and collaboration for the moment of need. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind. In this webinar you'll learn: Best practices for virtually onboarding and training sales reps. Why video is so important in coaching your reps.

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Other World Computing and ARCHIWARE Partner on Collaborative Workflows

Channel Insider

Other World Computing (OWC) is partnering with ARCHIWARE, a data management software provider, to deliver seamless shared storage, cloning, backup, and archiving for collaborative workflows. The combination will enhance collaboration capabilities, ensure data protection, and future-proof asset management. With Jellyfish Manager 3.0

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From Cave Walls to Boardrooms: The Evolution of Collaboration

Peter Simoons

This early form of collaboration was likely based on trust. The industrial revolution saw the birth of factories, and a new type of collaboration. Today, a new generation of entrepreneurs is redefining collaboration with an open, transparent and supportive mindset. The spectrum of collaboration ranges from trust to control.