Your online learning journey
- Start the program by recording an individual introduction
- Formulate your learning objectives
- Discover the “Five S” framework for leveraging strategic partnerships
- Explore disruption by competitors with faster innovation cycles
- Reflect on disruption by competitors with alternative business models
- Apply learning to innovation partnerships
- Learn how to find strategic partnerships
- Outline screening potential partnerships
- Apply lessons to your own partnership situation
- Determine how to choose the right equity structure
- Consider the role of contracts in structuring and running partnerships
- Simulate the negotiation of a joint venture
- Explore ways to structure the partnership
- Reflect on the organization of a successful strategic partnership
- Outline the operation of a successful strategic partnership
- Understand the needs of each party
- Observe the inherent instability of strategic partnerships
- Learn about centrality of trust
- Consider how to avoid the “contractual obligation” path
- Explore steering strategic partnerships
- Reflect on learning from experience
- Draw inspiration from effective management and leadership
Coaching
You will have a dedicated learning coach, making sure you receive a highly individualized learning experience.
Your professional learning coach accompanies you through your 8-week learning journey on this Strategic Partnerships online course. They provide support and feedback as you apply your learning directly into your workplace, where it has an immediate impact.
Their input helps you translate your learning to your particular context. By spreading this feedback regularly throughout the program, you’ll be sure to embed your ongoing learning directly in your daily work.
Your professional learning coach interacts with you via video, in writing, and over the phone. You have calls, spread across the 8-weeks, at intervals that consolidate your learning.
