Monday, April 30, 2012 at 09:37AM As many of you know, in addition to being co-founder and a principal at The Rhythm of Business, I am a professor of management at Bentley University in Waltham MA, where I teach an undergraduate and MBA course on Managing Collaborative Relationships.
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 12:08PM It was the largest gathering of alliance management professionals anywhere in the world – ever. Three and a half days of educational sessions, receptions and networking, meetings with partners and clients, as well as a bit of glitz and glam (we were in Las Vegas after all) which demonstrated unequivocally that alliance management has arrived as a recognized capability.
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 11:58AM Over the past two years, through presentations, webinars and whitepapers, The Rhythm of Business has made its methodology and tools for profiling and analyzing an alliance portfolio available to the ASAP community. From what you are telling us, many of you have implemented it as an essential tool in your strategic decision making process.
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 08:05AM If you missed ASAP’s Netcast web seminar, It’s in the DNA…Right?, presented by Ard-Pieter de Man, Dave Luvison and Jack Pearson, you can watch it on ASAP’s newly revised website, that is if you are a member. (If you aren’t a member, we encourage you to join.)
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 08:11AM In our conversations with alliance managers over the past several months we keep hearing that many of them have taken on a new job responsibility – managing an excavation. No, they’re not taking over the supervision of a construction site. They have been tasked with compiling a comprehensive inventory of ALL the alliances and other strategic collaborations their company has entered into.
At first blush this sounds like an easy assignment. Surprisingly, it is much more challenging than it seems. When we’ve asked alliance managers how many alliances their company has, the response we most often get is, “That’s a good question … I have no idea what the answer is … perhaps in the hundreds.”
