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How to Forge and Manage a Strategic Allience.

Apr 1st, 2009  |  Categories:  Financial, Networking
Steve Steinhilber
A successful strategic alliance can be extraordinarily rewarding – to your company, to your alliance partner and, most importantly, to your customers. At the same time, building and running an alliance is a lot of hard work. Fortunately, there are some time-tested steps that will increase your chances of success. Forming an Alliance Before you actually start talking to any potential partners, make sure that an alliance supports your overall company strategy. If you can’t clearly demonstrate …

Steve Steinhilber

Steve Steinhilber is vice president of Strategic Alliances for Cisco Systems based in San Jose, California. He is the author of the new Harvard Business Press book, Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work.