ASAP and IDC are conducting a joint survey which explores how others are managing alliance metrics and joint comp especially for sales and alliance professionals. The survey has only nine questions and should take you less than three minutes to complete. A post survey overview and results will be... Continue Reading
ASAP Blog
The ASAP Blog is your go-to source for coverage of the latest ASAP events, including conferences, webinars, roundtables, and other presentations.
As we here at ASAP have been transitioning to our new offices—and to a new editorial team—we thought it was important to maintain continuity by preserving and celebrating what has worked well for our community while always keeping an eye on the present and on what’s up ahead. So... Continue Reading
What happens when a more than three-decade-old alliance that has gone through its share of turmoil nears the end of its contractual life? Does it simply wind down in collective exhaustion, ending with a whimper? Does it crash and burn? Or can it somehow rise from the ashes of the past? Two... Continue Reading
ASAP Members are now able to join our shared online community for alliance and ecosystem professionals -- the Alliance Aces Community! ASAP members now have access to additional best practices, ecosystem-related discussions, job posts, upcoming events, fresh new videos, ASAP Certification... Continue Reading
Updated: Monday, September 30, 2019 WorkSpan and the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), two organizations that are deeply engaged with alliance and ecosystem professionals, are proud to announce a new partnership designed to grow and enhance both organizations’... Continue Reading
Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 Andre Turenne began his Wednesday keynote address at the 2019 ASAP BioPharma Conference , held Sept. 23–25 in Boston, by reminding everyone why biopharma companies form partnerships in the first place: to more effectively find and create new... Continue Reading
Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 A perennial topic of interest in the ASAP biopharma community—and alliance management in general—revolves around plotting one’s career path and changing jobs, whether that means moving to a new company or shifting to a new job in one’s... Continue Reading
“We see at the highest levels of business and government what happens when we don’t maintain and preserve alliances.” Such was the plain, blunt statement of Rob Bazemore, president and CEO of Epizyme, Inc., Tuesday’s keynote speaker at the 2019 ASAP BioPharma Conference,... Continue Reading
Perhaps one of the less appreciated and less understood roles in biopharma alliances—particularly codevelopment, cocommercial alliances—is that of the medical affairs team, specifically medical science liaisons (MSLs). These field-level folks implement a medical affairs plan and... Continue Reading
Nontraditional alliances took center stage (literally) yet again today as the opening session at the ASAP BioPharma Conference 2019 got under way in Boston. Titled “Building Value in Non-Traditional Pharma/Biotech Partnerships: BMS and Concerto Health AI,” the session was moderated by... Continue Reading
Even a year or two ago, the idea of digital therapeutics didn’t stir up a great amount of interest among most participants at ASAP’s BioPharma Conference, according to Mike Leonetti, president and CEO of ASAP. That sort of ambivalence no longer applies, as was evident at the September... Continue Reading