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Alliance Management Practices
Get a Running Start with a Comprehensive Alliance Onboarding Program
“We’re scaling up quickly and hiring too fast to catch everyone.” Or, “We give new governance members a brief overview of the agreement. They’re smart, they’ll figure the rest of it out.” This is what we’ve been hearing from many alliance professionals about their...
Upcoming Webinar: Hidden Gold – The Surprising Impact on Alliance Results from Overlooked Fundamentals
Join us on June 8 for an ASAP webinar discussing opportunities to improve alliance outcomes by focusing on key aspects of the alliance operating model that are often overlooked. ASAP webinars are a benefit of membership and available at cost to non-members. We have a...
What’s Keeping Alliance Managers Up at Night?
One of the few silver linings of the Covid pandemic is that the advancement of web conferencing platforms has made it so much easier to connect with people around the globe. We at The Rhythm of Business have taken advantage of the technology, allowing us to work with...
Alliance Management Skills
As Seen in Strategic Alliance Quarterly – Positive Influence: The Alliance Professional’s Superpower
As seen in Strategic Alliance Quarterly, this article describes what positive influence is and how to use it to align actions, make good decisions, and solve problems within your alliance. Using influence involves exchanging what those with the power to advance or...
Assumptions and the Alliance Professional’s Superpower
Using the power of positive influence is an essential skill alliance professionals must master. It is perhaps the hardest part of the job and also the source of the value alliance professionals bring to the alliance. Purposefully using influence is how to overcome...
10 Tips for Being a Good Partner
With 2022 well underway, it is a perfect time to think about good practices to adopt with your business partners. Collaborating is a source of innovation, business growth, and new relationships. It gives you a chance to see how other people and companies work which...
Collaboration
Techniques for Consensus Decision Making
Alliances frequently operate with consensus decision making. Explore the benefits and challenges of achieving consensus. Learn techniques that will help your alliance make the best decisions it can.
Breaking the Collaboration Paradox: A Leadership Requirement for the Next Normal
The following post was initially published by The Drucker Forum as part of its "Shape the Debate" discussion concurrent with the 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum, Leadership Everywhere, A Fresh Perspective on Management. There are some things we’ve learned in the past...
Exemplary Alliance, Ordinary Practices
The statistics are daunting. Drug development has an overall failure rate of over 96%. It is especially acute for some of the most debilitating diseases where the biological mechanism that causes the disease state is not well understood. Spreading that risk...
Partnering Strategy
Reimagining and Leading the Evolution of Your Alliance Management Function
There is no question 2023 is a challenging year for biopharma companies. Pipelines are being culled. Financing for early-stage companies is harder to come by. A number of blockbusters are losing exclusivity. M&A activity is picking up. For biopharmaceutical...
Demand for Alliance Management Has Changed: Are You Ready?
When the head of a biopharmaceutical alliance management team told us he had to give his people “permission to ignore certain partners,” and another leader said he’d love to get into digital health partnerships, but didn’t have the resources, we knew the demand for...
Partnering Readiness: The New Strategic Leadership Agenda for Partnering Professionals
The final Strategic Alliance Quarterly of the decade features our article introducing the Partnering Readiness Stack, our outcome focused-approach to bring in agility, reduce the inefficiencies in partnering and ensure that the rhythms of partnering are not...
News and Events
Upcoming Webinar: Hidden Gold – The Surprising Impact on Alliance Results from Overlooked Fundamentals
Join us on June 8 for an ASAP webinar discussing opportunities to improve alliance outcomes by focusing on key aspects of the alliance operating model that are often overlooked. ASAP webinars are a benefit of membership and available at cost to non-members. We have a...
Upcoming Speaking Engagements Offer Opportunities to Hone Alliance Management Skills
The 2023 conference season for alliance and partnering professionals is about to get off to a great start with the ASAP Global Alliance Summit, April 3 – 5 in Tampa, FL. The Rhythm of Business is proud to once again sponsor this premier, cross-industry event. It...
A Master Class in Building Bridges
At the ASAP Biopharma Conference, we presented our new Master Class on The Power of Positive Influence: The Alliance Professional’s Superpower. Read the write up about it from the editorial team at ASAP. Contact us if you’d like information about bringing the workshop...
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