The new system features: several new ways to earn points; straightforward criteria; fast and easy point processing.
Benefits of Membership
ASAP membership is essential for any professional at any level in the alliance management profession. Whether you are in the early stages of an alliance management career, a longtime industry veteran, or an executive from another discipline who has been charged with managing part or all of a strategic alliance, ASAP is the only organization that provides all the tools, information, and resources you will ever need to create a structure to manage an alliance portfolio or an individual strategic alliance—industry knowledge and hands-on implementations of alliance management principles that are not found in leading business schools.
When you join ASAP, you become a peer of thousands of alliance professionals from multiple industries who have encountered and overcome every challenge in managing a complex strategic partnership, from creating a company’s new alliance management function to gracefully exiting a partnership that has run its course and everything in between. In addition to invaluable networking opportunities, ASAP members get exclusive access to the world’s largest collection of media, marketing, and support materials related to the newest theories, innovations, and best practices around the discipline.
ASAP members get the following select benefits that help advance both their careers and the strategic alliances that large corporations, midsized enterprises, and small businesses rely on to achieve organizational goals:
- Access to the organization’s Member Resource Library, a compilation of case studies, academic research, white papers, checklists, and other tools illustrating best practices and the latest thinking in alliance management
- Ability to train for, and obtain, alliance management certification that ensures you and your company have the most up-to-date skills and practices
- A complimentary subscription to Strategic Alliance Magazine, the flagship quarterly publication of ASAP Media and the world’s only magazine dedicated to delivering news, features, and commentary on the most pressing issues facing alliance management professionals today
- Access to ASAP Media’s Netcast series of Web seminars which cover in great depth leadership and practitioner-level issues facing alliance professionals
- Discounted member-price access to events held at any of ASAP’s global and regional chapters
- Significant discounts to the annual Global Alliance Summit, by far the largest gathering of leading alliance management professionals, companies, and partners in the business world each year
- Listing in, and full access to, ASAP’s Membership Directory, a searchable database of contact information for the world’s leading alliance management professionals and companies
- Access to ASAP’s Career Center, including its job bank of alliance management–related job postings and listings
So join ASAP now and get access to the professional development tools, networking opportunities, and resources around alliance management that you cannot find in any other professional association or academic institution. To begin your membership or receive more information, please contact Lori Gold, ASAP’s manager of member services, at lgold@strategic-alliances.org or 781-562-1630 ext. 203.
