Partnering Across Industries for Newer, Better Products, and Solutions

“The Great Convergence”: Partnering Across Industries for Newer, Better Products, Solutions, and Worlds

It’s long been said that alliance professionals need to understand their organization, their partners, and their industry—at a minimum. But as the world rapidly changes and business itself transforms, the needs of both companies and their customers require different, specialized solutions, newer thinking, and a lot more cross-industry partnering. The old familiar partners in your vertical? Sure, you still need them too. But now alliance leaders and their teams need to think more broadly and outside the box, and work with companies with very different business models and ways of operating. This lively, interactive roundtable will explore the many challenges and opportunities of this brave new world of cross-industry collaboration.