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Peak Experience: 2021 ASAP Global Alliance Summit Delivers Everything You Need to Know About Collab
Peak Experience: 2021 ASAP Global Alliance Summit Delivers Everything You Need to Know About Collab

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

Date posted02/12/2021


More Than Just Chemistry: Partnering Rules to Live By in 2021
More Than Just Chemistry: Partnering Rules to Live By in 2021

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Thursday, January 28, 2021 Ben Gomes-Casseres, CSAP, an author, ASAP thought leader, and professor at Brandeis University who has studied alliance strategy for more than three decades and still teaches a class on alliance management, kicked off this year’s ASAP... Continue Reading

Date posted01/28/2021


Burning Differences: “Fireside Chat Explores How to Bridge Gaps in IT, Pharma Alliance Cultures
Burning Differences: “Fireside Chat Explores How to Bridge Gaps in IT, Pharma Alliance Cultures

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, January 8, 2021 The IT and biopharma industries make up a good portion of the strategic alliance and ASAP communities’ foundation. For many years, these two verticals worked largely in separate spheres where they approached alliances in different ways that... Continue Reading

Date posted01/8/2021


Partnering by the Dashboard Light: Digital Platforms Help Organize Fast-Growing Alliance Portfolios
Partnering by the Dashboard Light: Digital Platforms Help Organize Fast-Growing Alliance Portfolios

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Biopharma alliances have been steadily growing in number and complexity. In the early drug development phases, companies are shifting R&D responsibilities to an increasingly diverse array of CROs, academic institutions, startups,... Continue Reading

Date posted11/25/2020


Check the Method: BioPharma Conference Panel Explores Drug Modality Alliances
Check the Method: BioPharma Conference Panel Explores Drug Modality Alliances

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, November 20, 2020 Groundbreaking medical treatments come in many forms. The average person is likely to associate the pharmaceutical industry’s role in healing with prescription and over-the-counter drugs. While the pills, capsules, tablets, and liquids they... Continue Reading

Date posted11/20/2020


New Skills for a Different Sport: Alliance Managers Wade into M&A, Integration Waters
New Skills for a Different Sport: Alliance Managers Wade into M&A, Integration Waters

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, November 13, 2020 Mergers, acquisitions, and divestments is a different world from alliance management, yet these disciplines end up overlapping from time to time, so some alliance managers have gotten a taste of it in small doses. Should alliance managers dip their... Continue Reading

Date posted11/13/2020


The End of the Transactional CRO?
The End of the Transactional CRO?

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Monday, October 19, 2020 Clinical trials have undergone a bit of a transformation in recent years. Much like what has happened with pharmaceutical manufacturing operations over the last decade and more, clinical trial site management is becoming less transactional and more... Continue Reading

Date posted10/19/2020


Moving Alliances from a Binary to a Multi-dimensional Ecosystem
Moving Alliances from a Binary to a Multi-dimensional Ecosystem

Posted By Contributed by: Wissam “Will” Yafi, Founder & CEO – TIDWIT , Wednesday, October 7, 2020Updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Last year I had a memorable lunch conversation with an alliance vice president of a very large tech GSI. “We have had an alliance... Continue Reading

Date posted10/6/2020


Riding the Waves with David and Goliath: Venerable Big Pharma and the Plucky Little Biotech
Riding the Waves with David and Goliath: Venerable Big Pharma and the Plucky Little Biotech

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Monday, October 5, 2020 The ASAP biopharma community is no stranger to big pharma–biotech alliances and David-Goliath partnerships. In general, the story usually centers around an entity with an intriguing molecule accompanied by promising science looking for a... Continue Reading

Date posted10/5/2020


Pharma and Tech’s Excellent Adventure: Making the Journey to Digital Health
Pharma and Tech’s Excellent Adventure: Making the Journey to Digital Health

Posted By Michael J. Burke, Monday, October 5, 2020 The road to digital health has been paved with good intentions: it’s about helping people take charge of their own health and wellness, after all. But it’s been a rocky road as well, and for pharma and tech companies taking the trip... Continue Reading

Date posted10/5/2020


How Do You Propel a Big, Complex Oncology Alliance Forward at Breakneck Speed? Very Carefully
How Do You Propel a Big, Complex Oncology Alliance Forward at Breakneck Speed? Very Carefully

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, September 25, 2020 Lou Gerstner once asked, 'Who says elephants can't dance?' For the past year and a half AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo have been making their pachyderm sprint like a cheetah. Last week, at the 2020 ASAP BioPharma Conference, Jonathan Bell,... Continue Reading

Date posted09/25/2020


We Can’t Afford “Business as Usual”: Rethinking and Reimagining Alliance Management in the Age of CO
We Can’t Afford “Business as Usual”: Rethinking and Reimagining Alliance Management in the Age of CO

Posted By Michael J. Burke, Friday, September 25, 2020 “It’s clear that over the last eight, nine months things have changed significantly. There really is no going back. The status quo is no more. Everything that has been done in the past can, and in many instances must, be... Continue Reading

Date posted09/24/2020