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Shameless Self-Promotion for Alliance Managers
Jan Twombly, CSAP
President, The Rhythm of Business
Chairperson, ASAP Global Marketing Committee
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Increasing Role of Alliances
► Increasing percentage of revenues from collaborative relationships and alliances■ 60 – 70% of revenue in some companies
► Increasing percentage of new products sourced from outside the company■ 50% of new P&G products
► Increasing source of capabilities■ Outsourcing entire business processes
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The organization today needs ever more people with collaborative skills and who understand the
discipline of alliance management
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JointVentures
LicensingPartners
GlobalAffiliates
OutsourcePartners
PreferredSuppliers
YourOrganization
StrategicAlliances
Customers
Collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration Collaboration
Collaboration
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What is alliance management?
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ACareer
A Job
A Responsibility
A LinkedIn search for “alliance manager” turns up 114K names!
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Is alliance management growing as a profession?
►Number of alliances continues to grow
(Source: Strategic alliances to dominate M&A in 2010, Duff & Phelps)
►Investments in alliance management are stable
►Number of companies with no fulltime alliance professionals increasing
(Source: The Third State of Alliance Management Study)
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Three Questions Facing Alliance Managers
1. How do you define your role?
2. What value do you bring?
3. How to get alliance management recognized by the CEO as a distinct and necessary management specialization?
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Take control!
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Define your job
Demonstrate your value
Make people aware. Be visible and accessible
Assess and learn
Start
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Define Your Job
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Alliance Manager as Choreographer
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1. Maintaining continuity of intentions, motivations and relationships
2. Coaching and guiding stakeholders in effective collaboration
3. Maintaining a single, comprehensive view of the relationship
4. Ensuring internal alignment and readiness before engaging partner
5. Facilitating communication and decision making
6. Pre-empting issues, facilitating conflict resolution, managing escalation
7. Monitoring milestones and metrics
8. Supporting alliance teams in operational and financial negotiations
9. Managing governance structures and processes
10.Understanding partners’ interests and communicating the implications for company’s interests
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Rallying people and their resources to achieve the vision of the alliance
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Tell me what you do? What value do you bring?
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30 seconds with the CEO
Pair up and help each other develop an elevator pitch –
a 30 second description of what you do as an alliance manager and the value you add
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DemonstrateYour Value
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Common Alliance Management Mission
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Keep alliances from failing for non-technical reasons
Maximize value from alliances
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In what ways do alliance managers
create value?
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Mission and Impact
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Positive Impact
Financial
Alliance Effectiveness
Risk Mitigation
Alliance management focuses on producing both current and long term financial value by increasing
alliance effectiveness and guarding against risks
Strategic IntentStakeholder Alignment
Value CreationGovernance
Alliance
Management
Excellence
Collaborative
Ability
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Create Awarenessby being Visible and
Accessible
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Basic Communication Plan
► Help your boss “get it”
► Get an intranet page and brochure for the function
► Get a LinkedIn page for you and join the ASAP Group
► Write a few articles for the company newsletter
► Invite colleagues to presentations about collaboration and alliances
► Seek out opportunities to build relationships with key stakeholders
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Advanced Communication Plan
► Create a “State of the Alliances Report” from annual alliance review and planning sessions
► Distribute an “Executive Briefing” with updates on major alliances monthly
► Get invited to key staff meetings at least once a quarter to report on alliances
► Cultivate relationships with key executives
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►What can you do before end of Q1 to raise awareness of the AM Group?
►What should happen before the end of the year?►Build a communication plan for your AM Group
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Failure to communicate is not an option!
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Alliance Management’s Communication Plan
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Description Frequency Originator Recipients Content
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Assess and Learn
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Positive Impact Score
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►A variation on customer satisfaction/loyalty
►Methodology based on the “one question” principle
►Measures the impact alliance managers have had on the outcomes achieved by alliance teams
►Looks at value created from the teams’ (customers’) perspective
► Identifies non-value add activities
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Metrics Create Credibility
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Positive Difference in Outcomes Because of Alliance Management Actions
Extremely likelyNot at all likely
Use multiple lenses to get a clear sense of the value your colleagues acknowledge alliance
management has had a hand in creating
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The organization today needs ever more people with collaborative skills and who understand the discipline of alliance management
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Which Path Will You Take?