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Strategic thinking, financial acumen, diplomacy, and the ability to ask "probing questions" and take "forensic notes." Implement these talents in the context of your partner's priorities, processes, policies, and people, and you have what it takes to be an alliance leader, said Lisle Holgate. Continue Reading

Jitin Bajaj and Petra Sansom shared Beam therapeutics' efforts to build its new alliance management practice at the 2023 ASAP BioPharma Conference. Continue Reading

C-suite endorsement and engagement, soft skills training, and a rewards system can help instill a strong alliance culture and companywide aptitude for collaborative relationships, according to the latest ASAP roundtable discussion. Continue Reading

At Amgen, alliance managers are an important part of product teams. Attendees of the 2023 ASAP BioPharma Conference learned this and more about Amgen's alliance management function. Continue Reading

Have you asked your partners lately how it's going? What they think of your relationship? Any unexpressed concerns or questions? Better to find out now via a partner survey, says our guest author, before little complaints turn into big problems that can torpedo your partnership. Continue Reading

Industry-academia partnerships must navigate differences in organizational structures and overall goals—disparate publication objectives, for example. The latest ASAP webinar discussed whether it is better to utilize a decentralized or centralized model for managing these types of collaborations. Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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