Whether already involved in a strategic alliance or weighing up future options, you need the skills to build better partnerships to support your overall business strategy.
Leveraging Strategic Partnerships will help you create an ecosystem of strategic alliances to maximize your competitive advantage.
Using your own business context as a live case study, you will identify and screen potential partners. By putting the right processes in place, you can ensure strategic partnerships are structured to your benefit, to borrow missing capabilities, adopt best practice and enter new markets cost-effectively. By developing mutual trust, you will leverage stable, fruitful strategic partnerships that also mitigate risk from competitors or imitators.
Transform your strategic partnerships into a competitive advantage
Get more out of existing alliances
Structure and implement future joint-ventures more effectively
Steer your portfolio of partnerships for maximum impact
You experience immersive, interactive learning. You get personalized coaching at each step and constant opportunities to translate what you learn to your own business context.
IMD's world-class faculty introduce you to the very latest in business knowledge, and provide you with skills to overcome challenges and find solutions.
Advance through your learning journey with weekly feedback from your dedicated personal coach. Discuss questions directly with your professors during live open office sessions. Sharpen your ability to apply and assimilate what you learn through group work with peers.
I would like to express my gratitude to the whole team and my participant colleagues. Leveraging Strategic Partnerships is a fantastic eight weeks.
Former participant
Global Head Business Integration Management, Nestlé Nutrition SA, Switzerland
Are you considering building partnerships or alliances to support your strategy? Companies are facing increasing competition both from low-cost imitators and from those introducing substitute business models. Building an ecosystem of strategic partnerships is an effective way to respond.
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