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Strategic Partnerships

Build the right partnerships for your business.

Online program

Strategic Partnerships

Build the right partnerships for your business.

Location
Online
Length
8 weeks
Fee
CHF 2,950
Next program starts
29 April 2024

Unlocking competitive advantage through strategic partnerships

In the ever-evolving world of business, company strategies face relentless threats, be they from rampant imitation or substitute business models. How do you navigate these challenges? In many instances, you cannot rely on your company alone to sustain competitive advantage. Rather, you need to look to an ecosystem of strategic partners who can help your company along the way.

However, that is easier said than done. Questions abound: How do you search, screen, and select strategic partners? What is the right structure to establish a strategic partnership? How do you start up the strategic partnership to maximize trust? What if the partnership goes sour? How do you manage conflict? Finally, how do you steer a portfolio of strategic partnerships for best practice sharing?

IMD’s Strategic Partnerships program is designed to guide you through these complexities. It 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 that strategic partnerships are structured to your benefit, to borrow missing capabilities, adopt best practices, 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.

Gain a competitive edge

Transform your strategic partnerships into a powerful competitive advantage. Master strategic alignment to outperform competitors and thrive in the market.

Maximize value of existing alliances

Uncover untapped opportunities within your current alliances and foster collaborative growth
for mutual benefit.

Optimize joint ventures

Enhance outcomes from future joint ventures by structuring and implementing effectively
for seamless integration and success.

Strategically manage your partnership portfolio

Strategically navigate and manage your partnership portfolio to capitalize on synergies and seize growth opportunities, delivering impactful results.

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You and your class

You are a senior executive, general manager, line manager or executive involved in cross-company collaboration. or you are a team that wants to evaluate and adapt your organization’s current partnership strategies.

Your class is individually put together through a selection process to ensure that you experience the most impactful learning with a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey, and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways – both during and beyond your classroom experience.

2022 class profile (average data)

20

Years of experience

42

Average age

16

Nationalities

8

Industries


I would like to express my gratitude to the whole team and my fellow colleagues. Strategic Partnerships has been a trigger for me to develop strategic alliances and capture the value a high-performance business deserves. It is a fantastic eight weeks.

Dirk Abeel Head Go-to-market Health & Life Sciences and CSM, Pitcher, Switzerland
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Our structured, yet flexible online programs are designed for impact and delivered for you. Explore what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.

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Programs designed and taught by IMD faculty, world-renowned experts in their fields.

Personalized expert coaching

One-on-one support from an experienced executive coach to ensure that learning objectives are attained.

Interaction with peers

Group and pair work with participants from around the world enriches learning through exposure to fresh perspectives.

Bite-sized knowledge for improved learning outcomes

Micro-learning focused on knowledge retention and actionable insights.

Compelling multimedia content

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Applied learning for real impact

Programs grounded in practical assignments guarantee the immediate application of new knowledge and techniques.

Next start & fee

Length: 8 weeks (4-6 hours per week).

Dates
29 Apr – 23 Jun 2024
Location
Online
Length
8 weeks
Price
CHF 2,950
Dates
23 Sep – 17 Nov 2024
Location
Online
Length
8 weeks
Price
CHF 2,950
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