Posted By Jon Lavietes, Wednesday, March 17, 2021 For years, many in the alliance community lamented over the perceived misunderstanding of the alliance practice and the lack of appreciation for the value it brings to the rest of an organization. Fortunately, that is changing, as our recent... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 The second day of the 2021 ASAP Global Alliance Summit rolled on with an in-depth look into a decade-old alliance that grew from a single initiative into a complex multipartnership arrangement involving drug candidates in a few disease areas. The... Continue Reading
Posted By Michael Burke, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Among the highlights from day two of the ASAP Global Alliance Summit was the keynote address by Jay McBain, principal analyst for channels, partnerships, and alliances at Forrester Research. Then again, McBain is a veritable one-man highlight reel... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Monday, March 15, 2021 Like everything else in the business world, technology ecosystems have had to pivot quickly and sharply to meet shifting needs of companies, partners, and customers in this pandemic. ASAP’s coverage and event programming has similarly evolved... Continue Reading
Posted By Michael Burke, Monday, March 15, 2021 The 2021 ASAP Global Alliance Summit began virtually this morning US time with opening remarks and introduction by Michael Leonetti, CSAP, president and CEO of ASAP. Leonetti greeted attendees—who covered the globe from California to... Continue Reading
Posted By Michael Burke, Monday, March 8, 2021 Many organizations today are striving to become better workplaces. It’s long overdue—but the events of 2020 have accelerated a trend yet again. Issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion—known in shorthand as DEI—have now... Continue Reading
Posted By Michael Burke, Monday, March 1, 2021 ASAP audiences have learned a lot from Jay McBain, principal analyst for channel partnerships and alliances at Forrester Research. His writings, past addresses to the ASAP Global Alliance Summit, and other appearances in print and in person have... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, February 12, 2021 You can’t excel at any craft if you don’t fine-tune your tools and techniques. The 2021 ASAP Global Alliance Summit, the alliance professional’s best annual forum for learning new tricks of the trade, is a little over a month... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Saturday, September 12, 2020 Ecosystems are the topic du jour in alliance management today, a fact that was reflected in the agenda for this year’s ASAP Global Alliance Summit. The Summit track “The Power of the Ecosystem” explored a variety of elements... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, September 4, 2020 M&A has been a hot topic recently, which is why a good portion of the 2020 ASAP Global Alliance Summit agenda was dedicated to it. One roundtable discussed broadly what alliance managers need to be aware of if they want to dip their toes in... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Saturday, August 29, 2020 Five years ago, Bayer’s R&D alliance management group knew it needed changes. Even though its core partners were happy in their collaborations with the 150-year-old pharmaceutical and over-the-counter medicine institution, the external... Continue Reading
Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, August 21, 2020 In pharma, the lines between business development and alliance management are blurring in many respects. The “buy” and “partner” functions no longer reside in separate spheres. Alliance managers are increasingly being pulled... Continue Reading
