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Posted By Dan Caplinger, Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Adopting ecosystems is a proven way for businesses to grow faster. But how to do it? With the rapid pace of digital transformation, actually implementing an ecosystem strategy within a company’s broader vision of partnering presents major... Continue Reading

Patients and Precision: 2021 ASAP BioPharma Conference Explores Collaboration in the Increasingly Digital World of Healthcare As we emerge from the pandemic, the biopharmaceutical industry is faced with a variety of challenges old and new—and some old ones with a new twist. The industry... Continue Reading

Posted By Jon Lavietes and Michael Burke, Thursday, June 24, 2021 With the Q2 2021 Strategic Alliance Quarterly wending its way to your mailboxes and inboxes as we write this, we thought we would give you a glimpse of the discussions we had in putting together the issue’s cover story on the... Continue Reading

Posted By Ezra Schneier, Thursday, June 10, 2021 What is partner bonding, and how do you achieve it? That state where an alliance is more than just a relationship, where two companies do more than share customers and bring innovative solutions together—where each looks at the other as an... Continue Reading

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Thursday, May 27, 2021 Oncology biotech BeiGene has come a long way in a short time. Founded in 2010, the company took advantage of growing innovation in cancer research and regulatory and commercial reform in China to quickly bring four drug candidates to the clinic by... Continue Reading

Do More, Do It Faster: Summit Session Shows How to Leverage Software Platforms to Make Alliances More Efficient Posted By Dan Caplinger, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 What you don’t know can hurt you. And getting full value out of alliances now means harnessing the growing power of technology to... Continue Reading

Posted By Jon Lavietes and Michael Burke, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Last week, ASAP continued its roundtable series, in which leading minds from several industries convene to discuss current challenges facing alliance professionals and trade ideas on how to overcome them. The topic at hand: coping... Continue Reading

Posted By Jon Lavietes, Tuesday, April 27, 2021 It’s a solid bet that a collaboration between both winners of the 2020 ASAP Alliance Excellence Award in the Alliance Program Excellence category will teem with alliance best practices and overall program success. It’s an even better bet... Continue Reading

An Alliance with Strong Bones: How UCB and Amgen Took EVENITY from Preclinical Stages to Global Market Success over Two Decades Posted By Jon Lavietes, Friday, April 23, 2021 The year 2019 was a momentous one for the drug EVENITY, the product of a long-standing collaboration between global... Continue Reading

Posted By Dan Caplinger, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 The current business environment is unlike any we’ve seen before. Amid the ups, downs, and uncertainties of the pandemic, businesses have had to overcome unprecedented challenges to transform themselves even as they continually face the... Continue Reading

“No Law Degrees Needed”: Summit Session Reveals How Mediation Techniques Can Help Alliance Managers De-escalate Conflicts Posted By Jon Lavietes, Thursday, April 15, 2021Updated: Thursday, April 15, 2021 Conflict is endemic to alliances, and thus conflict resolution is one of the... Continue Reading