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Terrific ASAP Panel on 2011 Alliance Trends - Tues Jan 11

New from ASAP (Association  of Strategic Alliance Professionals) – Tuesday, Jan 11!

Alliances 2011:  Market and Technology Trends Impacting Alliances in the Year Ahead

5:30-8:30, Symantec HQ, 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA  ( map )

Networking and Happy Hour followed by Panel and Discussion

 

The start of the year provides the opportunity to plan - assess progress from the past and to make plans for future growth.  Join us for a review of lessons from 2010 and hear predictions of market influences affecting collaborative business relationships in 2011.   A panel of experts from software development, product marketing, sales, new market development, productivity, and IT architecture discuss the trends to watch, and the challenges and opportunities they may hold for alliance managers and teams.

 

Participants :

Moderator: Chris Yeh VP Marketing PBworks

Steve White, Program Director for IDC’s Software Solutions Alliance Leadership Council

Lisa Shell, Senior Program Manager , Strategic Workforce Development at PG&E

Sandy Hawke, Senior Director, Product Marketing at BigFix, an IBM Company

 

Hope to see you there!

Partnerships Drive Deliver-to-Promise for New Markets

In competitve emerging markets, partner communication is more critical than ever!  An example from the NYTimes online article about how and why Google missed the holiday season for the new ChromeOS laptops –

“Industry analysts also say Google’s sudden change of plans reflects a weakness in the company’s business culture around managing relationships with partners.

“Google as a company is not a particularly partner-friendly or partner-focused company,” said James L. McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester, who added that because of the delay, it might take another year before Google TV has a chance to catch fire.”

New demands and speed require new transparency and tightly connected teams, working together to innovate new ways to respond to change and unknowns.  Missed windows never come again.  See the rest of the article at

November 19, 2010, NYTimes Online, Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews, By ASHLEE VANCE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

PMI SV Symposium 2010 Links and Resources

Slide 2

BSI (British Standards Institute)

Collaborative Business Relationships

PAS 1100:2006

 

ASAP (Association of Strategic  Alliance Professionals)

Book of Knowledge

 

Failure Is Not An Option

Gene Kranz, Former Director, NASA

©2000, Simon & Schuster

 

Slide 3 and 4

The Law of Accelerating Returns

3/7/01, Ray Kurzwell

 

Insights from the IBM Global CEO Study 2010

 Leadership in an Increasingly Interconnected World,

Frank Kern, Sr. VP Global Business Services

 

Slide 5

Cisco and EMC Form Venture to Serve Data Centers

NYTIMES Online

November 4, 2009

By Ashlee Vance

 

Slide 6

Netherlands Embassy

2001
Berlin, Germany 
Rem Koolhaas (OMA)
Pritzker Prize Laureate 

 

Slide 7

The Collapse of Business Models

Clay Shirky, 4/1/2010

 

Slide 8

Collaboration Platforms (Business-Ready)

Confluence (Atlassian)

MindTouch

Group Mind Express

 

Diversity Limited Blog

“Before You Buy!  10 Questions You Need To Ask A Collaboration Vendor”

 

Slide 15

Red Hat Seeking Ways To Avoid Channel Conflict With Service Partners
Rick Whiting, CRN,
12:42 PM EDT Fri. Jun. 25, 2010

 

Slide 19

The HP Phenomenon: 

Innovation and Business Transformation

Charles H. House and Raymond L. Price,

Stanford Business Books, ©2009

 

 

Links to resources, lunch-and-learns, and communities

 

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How Work Is Changing - Gartner article

Gartner has issued a press release anticipating  their upcoming dicussion of the changing nature of work at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit 2010 in London, UK, September 15-16, saying that organizations will need to asses the impact of 10 changes:

1. De-routinzation of Work
2. Work Swarms
3. Weak Links
4. Working with the Collective
5. Work Sketch-Ups
6. Spontaneous Work
7. Simulation and Experimentation
8. Pattern Senseitivity
9. Hyperconnected
10. “My Place”

To see descriptions, click here.   We agree with all but the time frame – this future is already upon us, just below the radar and outside the slow and limited data collection and analysis that futurists used in the past. 

PMI 2010 Symposium

I am honored to present at the 2010 Annual Symposium of PMI Silicon Valley – “Beyond Project Success – Business Succss”.  Attend my session on Day 2 and we’ll talk about “Project Management 2.0 – Opportunity and Buiness Success in a World of Accelerting Compexity” – I look forward to seeing you there, network with peers, and connect for ongoing learning and dialogu! 

LinkedIn for Strategic Alliances

If you must embrace partners and make alliances to meet your business goals, check out the Linked-In Group Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals for dicussions, resources, and events– you do not have to be a member of the association to join and participate!

Announcing new Connect2Deliver site!

Our new Connect2Deliver site offers a fast look at exactly how a modern communication framework works for planning and operational teams who must confiure, promise, and deliver together.

This new relationship framework is a reality, simple, fast, streamlined for your current needs and process, at extremely low costs, from Conexo – check us out!

Standards for managing strategic relationships!

BSI (the British Standards Institute) hopes for a final draft and release of  “Collabortive Business Relationships:  A framework specification” (PAS 11000:2006) this fall .  If you depend on alliances and partners, you’ll be very interested in the global movement for corporate adoptions of these emerging standards. 

You can buy the current version and see the Table of Contents at the BSI Shop.  Press release (Newswire, June 6, 2010).

Must-Read Article about the REAL social web

Digital Domain - World's Largest Social Network - The Open Web ...
Facebook's hybrid of public and private access runs contrary to the Web's openness and connectedness.

Click through to the NY Times (free) and enjoy this thought-provoking article about whether we really should be putting time and content into Facebook, or using the Web instead!