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Common Sense is not Common Practice How Alliance Best Practice Programmes are Delivering Competitive Advantage

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A compilation of the research that supports the contention that a best practice approach to developing alliance programmes produces better results.

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Common Sense is not Common Practice

How Alliance Best Practice Programmes are Delivering Competitive Advantage

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Contents

The following topics are covered in this briefing:

Why and how should you partner?

Why is a best practice approach the best option?

What do we mean by ‘Alliance Best Practice’?

Why isn’t everyone following a best practice approach?

What evidence is there that best practices = best results?

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5How should you develop an alliance best practice approach?

Appendices – Further supporting evidence and documentation

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Why and how should we partner?

A best practice approach to alliance development produces better results

Best Practices = Best Results

Organisations need to grow to survive. Typically they have done so by using the ‘build, buy, ally’ model of business development.

The recession has made the first two of these growth options difficult hence attention is now turning to the third option – ally.

Organisations are now actively looking for the best way to ally with a range of: suppliers, competitors, customers and others.

Research from a multiple series of sources suggests that the best way to ally is by using a best practice approach.

This short paper describes: the rationale, the supporting justification, and the most cost efficient method of implementing such alliance best practice programmes.

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Why is a best practice approach the best option?

ApprovedTheory

Advantages

Proven Success Strategies

BetterResults

Best practice = higher return at lower cost in less time

Following a ‘best practice’ approach has been recognised as a successful business strategy for many years. (See for example the Total Quality movement e.g. Baldridge and the European Foundation for Quality Management).

Such programmes have unmistakable advantages over alternative proprietary solutions. Typically these are: greater speed, lower cost, better quality, predictability of outcomes and less risk.

By relying on proven success strategies that have been developed previously you will enjoy all the advantages above in developing your alliance programmes.

Results from best practice partnering programmes show a higher return in less time at a lower cost (see later research justifications).

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What do we mean by ‘Alliance Best Practice’?

There is a great deal of confusion regarding the term ‘best practice’ or ‘best practices’ particularly when used to describe strategic alliances.

In this briefing paper we describe ‘best practice’ as systematised common sense. An approach, behaviour, process or activity that shows predictably better results in a quicker and more efficient manner than the alternatives.

ABP has researched over 27,000 alliance relationships and currently maintains a database of over 180,000 entries. It is from observations of this database that we draw our best practice conclusions.

Best Practice = Doing the right things in the right order:

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Why isn’t everyone using it?

Knowing that you should do something and having the courage to do it is not the same thing. (See for example Strategy and the Fat Smoker by David H Maister).

Many organisations labour under the misapprehension that designing and developing proprietary approaches is the only way to secure a competitive advantage.

In fact simply knowing that best practices exist is no guarantee to success. The skill is in knowing which best practices can be implemented at which time by the organisation: 1) Unconscious Incompetence, 2) Conscious Incompetence 3) Conscious Competence 4) Unconscious Competence

Common sense is not always common practice

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What evidence is there that best practice = best results?

Cisco benchmarking research 1999 – 2007

Procter and Gamble internal R&D programme 2002 – 2006

AstraZeneca – Internal project 2005 – 2010

Eli Lilly alliance programme re-evaluation 2001 – 2002

GSK Healthcare – strategic review 2004 - 2008

Practioners

Anderson Consulting ‘Best Practices in Strategic Alliances’ 1989

Boston Consulting Group Pharma Benchmarking report 2010.

IBM Healthcare industry annual review 2001 - 2011.

Booz Allen and Hamilton review of 3,500 global partnering organisations 2002 – 2006.

McKinsey annual alliance review 1995 – 2005.

Consultants

University of the United Nations – Bi Annual State of Alliances Review 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010.

Harvard University (Rosabeth Moss Kanter) Review of 37 global alliance programmes 2002 – 2006

University of Southern California annual review of 12,000 alliances in Silicon Valley.

University of Eindhoven Innovation centre annual review.

Academics

All of the following reports concluded that best practices = best results

This list is a small partial sample for example purposes only. For a fuller list of sources please see the Appendices Section.

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How should you develop an alliance best practice programme?

Step 1 - Baseline• Deliverables include best practice

education/guidance, program charter, program design, and a customized alliance framework

• Provides goal alignment, implementable vision, and a more robust Alliance valuation methodology.

Executing a best practice programme would be a five step process:Step 3 – Implementation• Deliverables include additional Alliance

launches, performance metrics, an improved processes for inter-business decision-making, and a recommendation for a relationship management system

• Makes Alliances an integral part of your organisation's thinking.

Step 5 – Review• Tracking the

programme effectiveness to pre established success criteria.

• Taking remedial action as necessary

Step 2 – Strategy and Design• Deliverables include finalized Vision,

portfolio plan, detailed roadmap, partner matrix, and tactical improvement opportunities

• Provides a pragmatic realization path with clear benefits defined

Step 4 – Scale Capability• Deliverables include skills matrix, Tools,

legal frameworks, internal certification program, web site

• Spreads Alliance capabilities throughout company; disseminates best practices; embeds training for certification and Alliance thinking in business systems

Step 1Step 1 Step 2Step 2 Step 3Step 3 Step 4Step 4 Step 5Step 5

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APPENDICES

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Support for the Alliance Best Practice Approach

There are currently 523 documents in the ABP Framework which support the concept of best practices in alliances.

The oldest entry comes from 1989 the newest is from June 2011.

The research comprises: books, white papers, articles, research assignments, presentations and investigations.

Research

There are currently 2,400 active members of the Alliance Best Practice community.

The community is split into both a general group and a thought leaders group.

There are over 100 global Chief Alliance Officers and renowned alliance authors in the thought leadership group.

Community

The Alliance Best Practice approach has been taught to over 1,000 active alliance executives during the last 10 years.

Companies who have adopted the approach (amonst others) include:

IBM, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, BASF, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer, SAP, Rolls Royce, Starbucks, Oracle, and Bayer Schering Pharma.

Practitioners

There is considerable evidence supporting a best practice approach:

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What is Alliance Best Practice (ABP)?

ABP is a research consultancy specialising in B2B strategic alliances

Alliance Best Practice

Alliance best practices are the identified practices that research has shown lead to optimal alliance results

ABP is a group of over 20 internatioanal alliance experts able to cover the world and work in multiple languages

ABP is dedicated to: discovering, developing and disseminating best practices for its clients

It does this through the ABP Database (ABPDBTM)

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Alliance Best Practices Exist

Recognised in General Management theory - goes hand in hand with quality and benchmarking.

ABP has examined 27,000 international collaborative relationships from both domestic and international sources.

We found factors which appeared consistently in successful strategic alliances – common success factors (CSFs).

Research

Common Success Factors (CSFs) - ‘Those practices, principles, procedures, behaviours or factors which appear in successful strategic alliances in a statistically relevant manner’.

ABP then validated the concepts with over 500 practicing alliance managers from ASAP – The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals.

Validation

ABP has since used the resulting framework with over 600 in depth benchmarking examinations of strategic alliances in action.

The ABP database currently holds over 180,000 observations of these CSFs in practice.

The results show that doing the right things (best practices) produced the right results (more value / revenue).

Implications

ABP has investigated over 27,000 alliances to identify best practices

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Partner ‘Intimacy’ Spectrum

Tran

sact

ional

Commodity Price Interchangeable

Product Highly specified

deliverables Buy from and sell to

Shared risks & investment

Deeply integrated Mutually

interdependent Breakthrough

market value

Some customization Flexibility/levels of

service Special knowledge Buy from, sell to and

sell with (GTM together)

Customized/ individualized

Process & data integration

Solutions oriented Shared rewards Greater cost value

leverage

Colla

bora

tive

Str

ateg

ic

Enhan

ced

0 = None 25 = Low 50 = Median 75 = High 100 = Perfection

Both partners need to define the topology of the progression and the ‘value of the journey’

LowValue

HighValue

LowIntimacy

HighIntimacy

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Commercial Technical Strategic Cultural Operational

Co1 Business Value Proposition (BVP)

Co2 Due Diligence

Co3 Optimum Legal / Business Structure

Co4 Alliance Audit

Co5 Key metrics

Co6 Alliance reward system

Co7 Commercial cost

Co8 Commercial benefit

Co9 Process for negotiation

Co10 Expected Cost value ratio

T11 Valuation of assets

T12 Partner company market position

T13 Host company market position

T14 Market fit of proposed solution

T15 Product fit with partners offerings

T16 Identified mutual needs in the relationship

T17 Process for team problem solving

T18 Shared Control

T19 Partner accountability

S20 Shared objectives

S21 Relationship Scope

S22 Tactical and strategic risk

S23 Risk sharing

S24 Exit strategies

S25 Senior executive support

S26 B2B Strategic alignment

S27 Fit with strategic business path

S28 Other relationships with same partner

S29 Common strategic ground rules

S30 Common vision

Cu31 Business to business trust

Cu32 Collaborative corporate mindset

Cu33 Collaboration skills

Cu34 Dedicated alliance manager

Cu35 Alliance centre of excellence

Cu36 Decision making process

Cu37 Other cultural issues

Cu38 B2B Cultural Alignment

O39 Alliance process

O40 Speed of progress

O41 Revenue flow

O42 Business plan

O43 Communication

O44 Health check

O45 Alliance charter

O46 Change mgt.

O47 Operational metrics

O48 Operational alignment

O49 Exponential breakthroughs

O50 Internal alignment

O51 Project plan

O52 Issue escalation

Common Success Factors : Best Practices

There are currently 52 CSFs in 5 categories

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Alliance Capability Model (ACMTM)

Alliance Capability Alliance Performance

Leadership

People

Processes

Commercial

Key Performance

Results

Governance Technical

Resources Strategic

Structure Cultural

Technology Operational

Internal Benchmarking on an Ongoing Basis : Continuous Improvement Cycle

Alliance Maturity Model (AMMTM) Alliance Best Practice Index

External Benchmarking Alliance Best Practice Database (ABPDTM)

The goal is to establish partnering as an organisational competence

KEY MESSAGES: Investment in training alone will not deliver alliance competence (AC) Alliance managers need ongoing support to produce best results Building capability is essential to delivering results AC = Competitive business advantage

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Partnering Competence

The combination of CSFs into suitable individual proceses

The combination of processes into partnering practices

Built around alliance portfolio management:

Add

Adjust

Optimise

Retire

Alliance Knowledge

Four stages of knowledge growth:

Unconcious incompetence

Conscious incompetence

Conscious competence

Unconscious competence

People / Skills / Behaviours

Built around:

Strategic

Managerial

Operational

In a matrix with:

Alliance

Sales

Marketing

Technology

Local Involvement

Organisational Structure

The ability to apply the CSFs in an efficient and effective manner

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Alliance Maturity

Alliances are opportunistic

Each alliance is a ‘stand alone’ venture

Alliances are not part of the company’s “Standard Operating Procedure”

Typically alliances are used to secure tactical ‘deals’ or exploit individual market opportunities

Stage 1 - Opportunistic

Separate corporate efforts in different areas of business

Strategic partners developed

Effort begun to adopt “best practices” in alliance management

‘Islands’ of ownership of alliances formed

Stage 2 - Systematic

Planned investment in partnering capability

Wide scale use of full range of alliance: training, tools and priocesses

Close integration of: sales, marketing, technology, innovation etc

Stage 3 - Endemic

There are three observable stages in organisational alliance maturity

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The Alliance Maturity Model AMMTM

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Stage IIStage I Stage III

• Planned investment in partnering capability

• Wide scale use of full range of alliance capability building

• Close integration of sales, marketing, innovation etc

• Separate corporate efforts in different areas of business• Strategic partners developed• Effort begun to adopt “best practices” in alliance

management

• Alliances are opportunistic• Each alliance is a ‘stand

alone’ venture• Alliances are not part of the

company’s “Standard Operating Procedure”

Company 2

Company 1

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Alliance Best Practice Framework

There are 52 Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

identified from examining over 27,000

international strategic alliances.

By combining the principles established in

the CSFs a range of Best Practices (BPs)

have been developed

‘Tools’ refer to any documents that help users apply the Framework knowledge.

The Alliance Maturity Model TM establishes: current situation, (benchmark) current and future challenges, the nature of the journey’ and success strategies for cost effective progress.

DiagnosticsDiagnostics

MOUPMOUPBenchMarks

BenchMarks

Relationship OptimisationRelationship Optimisation

The ABPDBTM with 180,000+ entries lies at the heart of the Framework

ABPDTM

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Relationships Benchmarked

25

72

48

27

25

15

Pre Formation FormationGrowth MaturityExtension Decline / Renewal

Organisations in the ABPDBTM

Accenture (Asia Pac), Accenture (EMEA), Accenture (USA), Aenis, Air France, AirPlus, Alcatel (UK), Alcatel Lucent, Amec, AMP Capital, ANA Airlines, Apple Computer, Ariba, Arriva, Associated Business Leaders LLC, AstraZeneca, AT+T, Atos Origin, Avaya, Avis, AXA, Bank of America, BASF, Basilica Consulting, Battelle, Bax Global, Bayer Schering Pharma, BBC Corporation, BCX, BDO Unicon, Bearing Point, Bell Canada, BMI Airlines, BNP Paribas, Boeringer Ingelheim, Borland, BP Oil and Gas, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the British Library, BT, BT Global Services, BT Wholesale, Buckland Austin, Business Objects, Capgemini, Cardinal Health, Carlson Wagonlit, Caterpillar, CGI, Chordiant, Ciber-Novesoft, Cisco, Cognos, Computacenter, Continental Airlines, CSC, Csiper, Delaware, Dell, Deloitte, Delta Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Disney Corporation, Dupont Industries, EBRC, Eli Lilly, EMC, Epiphany, Ericsson, Everis, Exact Software, Excel Logistics, Experian, Exponent, Fontline, Fontworkx, Fujitsu Communications, Fujitsu Consulting, Fujitsu Services, Fujitsu Siemens, GE Capital Finance, Genesys, Genset, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK (Healthcare), GSK (Pharma), Hitachi Consulting, HP (UK), HP (USA), i2 Technologies, IBM (Asia Pac), IBM (India), IBM (UK), IBM (USA), IBM Global Services (NE IOT), IBM Global Services (USA), IBS, IDS Sheer, Imbercal, Imperial Tobacco, Infor, Intel, Intentia, ITS, Japan Corporate Bank, Kalamazoo, Kana, Keane, KLM Airlines, KLM Cargo, KPMG, Kuehne & Nagle, Lawson, Lenovo, Logica, LTSB, Lufthansa, Marks and Spencer, McAfee, Merck, Micro Focus, Microsoft (CS), Microsoft (EPG), Mitie, Motorola, MSG, NEC Computers, nFocus, Nokia, Nordea, Nortel, Northwest Airlines, Norwich Union Life, O2 Telefonica, Omax Auto, Omega Signs, Oracle, Peregrine, Pfizer, PLM, RBS, RCC, Reckitt Benckiser, Rider Levitt Bucknall, Rifcon, Roiter Zucker, Rolls Royce, SAP (EMEA), SAP (Global), SAP (UK), SAS Institute, Satyam, Scottish Widows, Serco, Siebel, Siemens AG, Siemens Business Services, Siemens Enterprise Networks, Siemens Comms, Siemens GmbH, Singapore Airlines, Skyteam, Sprint, SSA, Staffware, Star Alliance, Starbucks, StorageTek, T Mobile, Tata Communications, Tata Consulting Services (TCS), TDG Logistics, Telmex (mexico), Telus (Canada), TNT Express, Tubelines, UBS, uLogistics, Unipart Logistics, Unisys, United Airlines, Verizon, Vodafone, Wipro, Withy King, Xerox, Xerox Services, Zurich Financial Services

ABP has worked with over 300 of the worlds best partnering organisations

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Benchmarks by sector

28

11219

21

15

17

Airlines / Finance ITPharma ManufacturingServices / Media Other

ABPDTM By Sector

The largest sector is High Tech

All business sectors are now beginning to use alliances

Most common use is:

Developing New Business (Growth)

Developing New Products and Services (Innovation)

Developing Quality or Cost Control (Recession)

High Tech and Pharma companies comprise the majority of entries:

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External research improves knowledge

UnconsciousIncompetence

Conscious Incompetence

Conscious Competence

UnconsciousCompetence

Organisations don’t know what they don’t know! No understanding of Best Practices or current performance Value loss high

Developing understanding that Best Practices exist, but no systems to take advantage of them. Difficulties in generating the business case.

Can use the Framework to massively reduce cost of alliances

Knowledge of Best Practices but need training and experience to apply them successfully.cost effectively generate breakthrough levels of incremental revenue.

Collaboration is a core competence now organisations can use partnering as a key business strategy.

Target = Partner of Choice (POC) in chosen sectors.

To improve organisations must be aware of what ‘best practice’ looks like:

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Better knowledge = competitive advantage

UnconsciousIncompetence

Conscious Incompetence

Conscious Competence

UnconsciousCompetence

Organisations don’t know what they don’t know! No understanding of BP or current performance Value loss high

Developing understanding that BP exist, but no systems to take advantage of them. Difficulties in generating The business case.

Can use the Framework to massively reduce cost of alliances

Knowledge of BP but need training and experience to apply them successfully.cost effectively generate breakthrough levels of incremental revenue.

Collaboration is a core competence now organisations can use partnering as a key business strategy.

Target = Partner of Choice (POC) in chosen sectors.

The impact of lack of ‘best practice’ knowledge:

RiskRisk

CostCost

ValueValue

LeaderLeader

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Commercial Implications of Best Practice II

Best Practice (BP) consistently out performs Non Best Practice (NBP)

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 20100

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

3439

49 48

6561 59

1519

23 2529

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Best Practice (BP) Non Best Practice (NBP)

Recession

Review

RationaliseRecession

Review

RationaliseWidening Delta as

times get tough

Same CompanySame VP

Different Approach

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Setting alliance manager standards

Alliance manager standards are now beginning to be introduced

Organisations are paying more attention to alliance management training

ABP chaired the certification standards committee for ASAP (the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals) and researched and built the competency framework on which the certification is based.

In addition ABP has worked with IBM, Starbucks, Eli Lilly, and Rolls Royce to set suitable alliance manager standards to support training needs analysis and appraisal review systems.

A professional well educated alliance executive is the ‘point of the sword’

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Individual relationship benchmark example

Generally consistent scoring

Client scored lower (usually) than the Partner

Differences were perceived in the following areas;- Co1 Defined business value

proposition- T2 - Partner company market

position- T3 - Host company market position- S7 – B2B Strategic Alignment- Cu8 – B2b Cultural Alignment- O2 – Speed of progress so far- O12 – Internal Alignment

0

10

20

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40

50

60

70

80

90

100Co1

Co2 Co3Co4

Co5Co6

Co7Co8

Co9

Co10

T11

T12

T13

T14

T15

T16

T17

T18

T19

S20S21

S22S23

S24S25S26

S27S28S29

S30Cu31

Cu32

Cu33Cu34

Cu35

Cu36

Cu37

Cu38

O39

O40

O41

O42

O43

O44

O45

O46O47

O48O49

O50O51 O52

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ABP Relationship Optimisation Process

Identifier Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5

Description Goal Setting and Scoping Diagnostic Action Planning Resource Mapping 90 Day Review

Objective To identify the currently projected commercial value of the relationship for the next 12 months.

To generate an objective view of the relationship which shows 52 strengths and weaknesses identified as a score from 0-100

Objective – To generate a jointly agreed (with the partner) action plan to optimise the relationship.

To map all identified actions to a RACI[1] framework to identify key stakeholders roles and responsibilities.

To track the progress of the joint action plan to target/s and take remedial action as required.

Activities • Contact all key stakeholders and draw up strawman value projection

• Resolve conflicts and discrepancies with stakeholders

• Document draft final value projection

• Obtain sign off of value projection from senior executive sponsor

• Agree on key stakeholders to provide data

• Gather data and send results to ABP

• ABP benchmarks the data and produces draft alliance efficiency report (AER)

• Discuss AER with partner (and / or ABP) and decide whether to progress to stage 3

• Construct agreed agenda from draft report

• Analyse areas of misalignment (i.e. CSFs which show different scores from one partner to the other)

• Agree common scores for all 52 areas (with the partner)

• Identify areas for action• Identify short term and long

term actions• Identify help required with

long term actions• Produce agreed action plan

• Conduct RACI chart mapping for all identified improvement actions

• Communicate and agree role of all stakeholders on the RACI chart

• Revise the RACI chart as necessary

• Agree a single stakeholder from both /all organisations in each category

• Sign off RACI chart with host and partner executives

• Conduct healthcheck assessment prior to review meeting

• Construct agenda and pre meeting progress report

• Conduct meeting focusing on underperforming areas

• Agree revised action plan with remedial actions

• Publish revised action plan

Inputs • Relationship business plans• Alliance strategy document• Briefing Pack from ABP

• Online diagnostic• Briefing Pack from ABP• ABP coaching as required

• Draft AER• Suggested workshop agenda• Agreed workshop attendee

list

• Agreed Action Plan• RACI resource mapping

tool

• Jointly greed action plan• Jointly agreed

stakeholder map• MOUP• Agenda

Outputs • Agreed Scope• Agreed initial commercial

valuation

• Draft alliance efficiency report (AER) from ABP

• Benchmarking report• Decision to proceed

• Jointly agreed action plan • Stakeholder map of agreed actions

• Revised Action Plan

Having a consistent way to optimise relationships improves results:

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The ROI of the Ally Model

The commercial return of the ‘ally’ model is typically five times higher than the other two models*.

Organisations are increasingly turning to the third generation business growth model of ‘ally’ because it represents a more flexible and cost effective growth model. In addition it is easier to achieve in a recession.

*Source Booz Allen and Hamilton Research 1996 - 2002

The ‘Ally’ model outperforms the ‘Build’ or ‘Buy’ models:

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The two forces driving systematisation

Regular interaction drives value Need to reuse knowledge gained Individual / corporate responsibility Systematisation allows consistent comparison

Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II & III, Enron, credit crunch, etc.

External audits of processes CFOs identifying value in the balance sheet It costs less to be working to a system CEOs tired of the hype ‘show me the money’

Systematisation is being driven by internal and external; factors

Internal

External

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Commercial return of systematisation

Efficiency- (e.g. internal knowledge transfer,

having a defined process, having a clear business value proposition, constructing good alignment with partners, etc.).

Effectiveness- (e.g. Assessing potential partners

more quickly, refusing to be drawn into the opportunistic deal chasing merry go round but rather setting and keeping to a defined strategy, etc.)

- *Source Alliance Best Practice database 2001 - 2011

Best practice practitioners on average earn more from their alliances:

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Alliance myths

Some commonly held views are negated by the evidence in the database:

Alliance Best Practice

Alliances are about people pure and simple

There can be no ‘one’ single best practice all alliances are unique

Collaboration is an unnatural act

Alliances are not ‘sexy’ business models

If the money is good enough then people will pretend to get along

No organisation is going to willingly commit to a limited number of partners

There are too many variables in any collaborative relationship to allow meaningful analysis

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Alliance Challenges

Internal Challenges

Significant alliance challenges remain

External Challenges

Building bricks with no straw

Confusing terminology

Identifying Key Stakeholders

Lack of control

Appointing the wrong person to the alliance role

Technical excellence is not partnering excellence

Short term thinking

Managing multiple alliances

Embedding collaborative thinking in an organisation

Collaborative negotiation

Developing a business case for an alliance department / function

Distributed governance

Identifying alliance value

Positioning alliances in organisational structures

Overcoming organisational resistance / inertia

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The developing future for alliances

Internal Challenges

Collaborative business to business relationships are here to stay

External Challenges

More revenue coming from indirect means

More audit pressures on organisations to have auditable alliance processes

Alliance manager certification and qualification

Greater and more balanced measurement of alliances

Greater focus on the ROI of alliances

Accelerating Hi Tech alliances with Pharma companies

Development of PRM systems

Greater focus on systematisation

Training emerging as a capability enhancing tool of choice

More structure in alliance job descriptions, behaviours and assessment centres

Alliance virtual teams and ‘ad hoc’ knowledge exchange taking place

New models and business cases being built (e.g. cost of sales v cost of alliances)

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Further Details

For further details please contact;

Mike Nevin

Managing Partner

Alliance Best Practice Ltd

Web: www.alliancebestpractice.com

Office: +44 (0)1675 442490

Mobile: +44 (0)7766 752350

E Mail: [email protected]