How do tech companies continually upskill hundreds, if not thousands, of partner stakeholders on fast-changing solutions? The answers will be revealed at the 2024 ASAP Global Alliance Summit. Continue Reading
Global Alliance Summit
Highlighting partnering, alliance, and ecosystem best practices and trends
We're not just chasing rainbows when we say that a lot of important things, trends, and people will come together at the 2024 ASAP Global Alliance Summit in Cape Coral, Fla. It's happening in less than two weeks! Be sure to register if you haven't already. Then prepare to be amazed.... Continue Reading
Every successful collaboration depends on: 1) mutually beneficial economics, 2) a robust governance framework, 3) a shared set of core operating values, and 4) a rigorous engagement model. Joy Wilder Lybeer will show 2024 ASAP Global Alliance Summit attendees how to foster these elements. Continue Reading
In a 2024 ASAP Global Alliance Summit keynote on May 1, former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson will argue that true leadership involves harnessing the unique creativity of individuals in service of innovation and a competitive edge. And as he says, it sounds easy but it's hard to do! Continue Reading
Janet Schijns, CEO of JSG, is going to reveal what marketing tactics are most effective in the context of ecosystem engagements and review the sales models that are working in marketplaces and multipartner ecosystems of all kinds at the 2024 ASAP Global Alliance Summit. Continue Reading
As we enter the lazy days of summer, our ASAP editorial team is still working hard. Here we take a retrospective glance at one of the highlight sessions of April's ASAP Global Alliance Summit in Tampa, detailing how to get senior execs and other alliance stakeholders all in the same boat. Continue Reading
We've been talking for years about how alliance leaders have had to bring a strategic mindset and a portfolio approach. Cindy Warren, Jarrod Midboe, and Adam Kornetsky explained in more detail how to build this into a modern-day biopharma alliance practice at the ASAP Global Alliance Summit. Continue Reading
One of the many benefits of partnering is that we're better when "thinking together," according to ASAP Global Alliance Summit presenter Lynda McDermott, CA-AM, president of EquiPro International. She explored with participants how their diverse talents and strengths create better alliance results. Continue Reading
Four alliance management veterans shared challenges, failure, successes, and stories en route to leadership positions at the 2023 ASAP Global Alliance Summit. Continue Reading
On the final day of last week's ASAP Global Alliance Summit in Tampa, the Leadership Forum audience heard a talk on managing teams and resolving conflict by fire chief and consultant/coach Randy Keirn, including explanations of psychological safety, the "mirror test," and "'but' awareness." Continue Reading
In China as elsewhere in East Asia, economic growth is surging, especially in biopharma. ASAP Global Alliance Summit keynote speaker Kevin Oliver of Simcere told the audience that in Chinese biopharma, partnering is on the rise, alliance management is emerging, and cultural challenges abound. Continue Reading
Want to "get real"? Be more rational in your alliance decision making? Resolve conflicts better? Economics professor Stefanie Schubert gave the audience the lowdown at the Summit in Tampa, explaining how to apply game theory principles to situations where alliance friction makes for a bumpy ride. Continue Reading