The Art of Cooperation

Author: Ed Riggsby
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Partnering is a long-term business strategy that provides a path to leverage collaborative advantages in addressing today's business challenges. Intercompany alliances can create a profitable environment for collaboration and innovation, surpassing your current industry standards. Partnering fosters employee ownership and boosts motivation, leading to effective measures for cost reduction and productivity improvement, as well as expanding market share. Partnering also helps achieve personal aspirations, enabling you to create immense value in many areas of life and find a new sense of balance. For successfully integrating the philosophy and strategies of partnering into your company, this book provides a comprehensive exposition, including:
· How to identify the best partners.
· How to identify and align core competencies.
· How to identify and avoid pitfalls in partnering.
· Assisting in evaluating partnering relationships with a range of groups, including suppliers, customers, employees, owners, decision-makers, and managers.
· Offering the Partnering Team Five-Element Model, which enables companies of all sizes to profit by pooling knowledge and experience—critical in today's competitive landscape.
At the end of the book, an indispensable legal standardized pricing framework for partnering agreements is provided, along with an analysis of a series of issues from business trends to strategies. It helps all relevant individuals or groups engage in the partnering process, which holds significant importance for gaining competitive advantages and achieving prosperity in today's fast-paced global market.