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Bridge Builders: How Alliance Managers Can Transcend Cultural Differences
Bridge Builders: How Alliance Managers Can Transcend Cultural Differences

Managing alliances in a global context can be exciting and rewarding, but challenges include fostering understanding between cultures that may be quite opaque to each other. Last month's ASAP BioPharma Conference featured a panel that addressed how to "be the bridge" between contrasting cultures. Continue Reading

Postedby Michael Burke
Date posted12/21/2023
December CCM Speaker: Alliance Managers Can Save Our Planet
December CCM Speaker: Alliance Managers Can Save Our Planet

Alliance managers' unique skill set makes them ideal for accomplishing ESG objectives. They are change agents. They're scrappy. They're used to bringing parties together to come up with novel innovations. Danielle James had more in ASAP's Collaborative Connection Monthly. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted12/14/2023
Dyno-Mite! Gene Therapy Alliance Provides the Spark
Dyno-Mite! Gene Therapy Alliance Provides the Spark

Dyno Therapeutics and Spark Therapeutics have to navigate coopetition, gate sensitive IP, and uneven scientific results, but this drug development platform technology alliance is off to a good start thanks to a harmonious working relationship and a commitment to improving patients' lives. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted12/12/2023
Global Role Players: Launching Pharma Products in Different Regions
Global Role Players: Launching Pharma Products in Different Regions

When it's time to enter new markets around the globe, the alliance manager can add tremendous value by learning the regulatory commercial, and geopolitical landscape of the desired new regions, according to a 2023 ASAP BioPharma Conference panel. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted12/7/2023
“Where the Magic Happens": New ASAP Board Member Nicole Colwell Brings Fresh Perspective
“Where the Magic Happens": New ASAP Board Member Nicole Colwell Brings Fresh Perspective

With nearly three decades in the tech world, including alliances and ecosystems, ASAP's newest board member, Nicole Colwell, is set to bring new viewpoints to the table, including a focus on DEI, as well as unique insights from an emerging area of technology. Continue Reading

Postedby Michael Burke
Date posted12/5/2023
Taking the Fast Lane Out of a Crisis
Taking the Fast Lane Out of a Crisis

Ameriga Fanigliulo showed ASAP BioPharma Conference attendees how her company salvaged a collaboration that encountered an issue that threatened the viability of the alliance. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted11/30/2023
Tech Governance: The Advanced Course
Tech Governance: The Advanced Course

It's meetings, but it's more than that. It involves talking, sure, but mostly a lot of listening. It's how decisions get made, and it may mean the difference between an alliance that "has legs" and one that goes exactly nowhere. What is it? Tech alliance governance, as a recent ASAP Webinar showed. Continue Reading

Postedby Michael Burke
Date posted11/28/2023
Strange Brew: Trust as the Real Head of an Alliance
Strange Brew: Trust as the Real Head of an Alliance

If you don’t have trust, you don’t have a collaborative relationship. So said Frank Lee as part of the November Collaborative Connection Monthly webinar and roundtable. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted11/21/2023
ASAP’s New CEO: A Career and Life of Growth, Connection, and Embracing Change
ASAP’s New CEO: A Career and Life of Growth, Connection, and Embracing Change

Meet Nicole Boston, ASAP's new CEO! Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted11/16/2023
The Many Ways of Learning the Ropes of Alliance Management
The Many Ways of Learning the Ropes of Alliance Management

Some alliance managers had a mentor when they began their alliance careers, others were "pushed into the pool." Videos, organization curricula, and ASAP tools have helped many an alliance professional swim in the partnership waters. ASAP's latest roundtable dove into mentoring. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted11/14/2023
The Evolution of an Alliance Leader
The Evolution of an Alliance Leader

With the impending retirement later this month of ASAP president and CEO Michael Leonetti, CSAP, “a key feature of our alliance community” is moving on, ushering in a new era for ASAP. That was the description given by Brooke Paige, CSAP, digital alliance leader at Novartis, as she... Continue Reading

Postedby Michael Burke
Date posted11/9/2023
Drug Development Technology Platforms Alliances: Taking Multiple Shots on Goal for a Big Score
Drug Development Technology Platforms Alliances: Taking Multiple Shots on Goal for a Big Score

Day 2 of the 2023 ASAP BioPharma Conference kicked off with a panel exploring the world of drug development technology platform alliances—multiple programs, therapeutic areas, and indications. IP protection, stakeholder management, and surprises, big and small, put alliance managers to the test. Continue Reading

Postedby Jon Lavietes
Date posted11/8/2023