Collaboration is a strategy. So, it only works as it should when it is approached as a strategy. But how we approach strategy is an even larger question. Over the years I have taken part in strategic planning in a range of capacities. Some I led myself, in […]
Some people approach collaboration with suspicion. It’s a deep seated attitude going back to the days when competition was defined in terms that neglected a very simple fact; common good and common goals underpin all healthy competition. Competition and collaboration are the new marriage made in heaven for […]
Collaboration is as much about shared value creation as it is about innovation and disruption. The mix of these factors is not easy to come to terms with for the savviest of managers, let alone the conservatively educated ones who still adhere to last century’s management textbooks. There’s […]
‘Things end. It is the way we deal with things ending that matters.’ That’s a line from Analyse This, a film starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. Billy plays a ‘head doctor’ (in mafia speak) who offers these words of well-meaning advice to one of his regular […]
By Simone Novello, Managing Director of Partner2GROW, 52% of businesses on the Fortune 500 list in 2000 are gone (UpStart Business Journal June 4 2015). Nobody can afford to be complacent, arrogant, or go it alone. Creative disruption presents enormous opportunities for businesses of all sizes, but those […]
“Alliances between companies whether they are from different parts of the world of different ends of the supply chain, are a fact of life in business today.” This simple statement introduces one of the best pieces on collaboration ever written, “Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances”; by the […]
The streaming world has slowly crept up on us. We embraced the past two decades of an unprecedented rate of connecting, with an almost hyper fervour. Great products such as smart phones, Wi-Fi technology, apps and assistive intelligence have made things easier in so many ways. In the […]
