Finding Allies, Building Alliances: 8 Elements that Bring—and Keep—People Together

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Collaborative Competitive Edge

Once sensitized to the existence of value alliances, you will begin to see them everywhere. In fact, most businesses and organizations are typically engaged in discussions about several potential collaborations at any given moment. In the coming years, this number will undoubtedly increase due to a confluence of four key trends: digitization, transportation technology, geopolitical expansion of market-based economies, and the pressure of mounting sovereign debt within industrialized economies. Individually, each of these factors causes the number of collaborative alliances to increase. Collectively, they ...