List of Award Winners
ASAP congratulates EDS, Cisco, Fujitsu, Lilly, Roche, and Gilead Sciences for their outstanding strategic alliances, alliance programs, and use of alliance best practices. These companies received the 2008 Alliance Excellence Awards at ASAP's recent global Alliance Summit, as follows:
Alliance Program Excellence
EDS - for its Agility Alliance Program, a systematic, world-class approach to forming and managing an integrated portfolio of major alliances.
Individual Alliance Excellence
Cisco and Fujitsu - for the sophistication of their alliance that spans the full value chain of product development, quality, services, support, and sales with the added challenge of managing a multi-cultural business on a global scale.
Alliances for Corporate Social Responsibility
Eli Lilly and Company - for its Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Partnership, a global public-private alliance that is working to save lives by preventing and treating MDR-TB. Roche - for the Roche Tamiflu Alliance program that has responded proactively to the emergence of the potential threat of a global Avian bird flu pandemic. Gilead Sciences received an honorable mention for its part in the Roche Tamiflu Alliance.