The Collaborative Business Podcast

This is the final episode of the Collaborative Business Podcast. For the full shownotes see petersimoons.com

Suniel Mande is the head of Global Alliances and Partnerships at Indus Software Technologies. Founded in 1989 Indus is an enterprise software product development and services company with a focus on the Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom and Utilities industries. See the full shownotes at petersimoons.com

Andrew Shipilov is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Akzo Nobel Fellow at INSEAD. Andrew recently he published his new book “Network Advantage”. In this conversation Andrew and I talk about alliance networks versus bi-lateral alliances and how companies can benefit from alliance networks. Read the full shownotes at http://petersimoons.com/68

Bill Davidson was granted two US Patents for creating business intelligence, business standards and reusable knowledge for channel and alliance selection, agreement creation and partnering management that works as a fully integrated leading edge analytics and predictive score carding tool.   Bill is the CEO and founder of Alliance Analytics Software, Inc and in this episode See the full shownotes at http://petersimoons.com

How do you handle different type of alliances: large, small, global, local? In this conversation with Pat Finerty are we exploring how Pat handles these differences in SAS Canada.  For the full show notes see http://petersimoons.com/66

This episode of the Collaborative Business Podcast features two guests, Larry Cummings and Ward Christman. Larry and Ward are co-founders of HR Tech Alliances, a new global portal just for those involved in Alliances & Partnerships in the HR Tech industry. Find the full shownotes at http://petersimoons.com/65

Does your relationship with your customer or supplier change? Does it seem to transform from a transactional driven to a more collaborative relationship where traditional boundaries seem to blur and different elements come in to play? Then this conversation is one for you to tune in to. Full shownotes at http://petersimoons.com

In this episode of the Collaborative Business Podcast, I am in conversation with Adam Chesler. With Adam, we discussed a slightly different field of strategic alliances and hear how he sees alliances everywhere. Alliances in personal relationships that helped him moved...For more information and full show notes see http://petersimoons.com.  

Mike Burnette is the Founder and President of Partnership Source. He has over 20 years of partnership experience with a variety of business-to-consumer market segments. Mike developed the first partnership marketing department at Hearst Magazine and was also the first... For more information and full show notes, see http://petersimoons.com  

Erlend Bakke is an entrepreneur, owner of three companies and author of the #1 International Bestseller 'Never Work Again'. With Erlend, we are diving into a different aspect of collaboration: the aspect of outsourcing parts of your business to make it grow faster and... For more information and the full show notes see http://petersimoons.com.

Joe Kittel has worked in the field of strategic alliances for about 25 years and about 16 years he did this work at Hewlett-Packard. For the last 10 years, Joe has been focused on the practical application of spirituality to help strategic alliance managers transform their partnerships to increase it's value creating effectiveness. For more information and the full show notes see http://petersimoons.com.

In this episode I am in conversation with Ben Gomes-Casseres about his new book Remix Strategy. For more information and the full shownotes see http://petersimoons.com

As vice president of worldwide alliances for Xerox Corporation, Russ Buchanan develops strategic partnerships with some of the world’s best-known IT services and product companies. He and his team have extensive experience in creating collaborative solutions for improving document-driven business processes designed around delivering measurable results for clients. In my conversation with Russ we dive into alliances at Xerox and explore how Russ build his experience initially in the services business of Xerox, that now is being extended onto the corporate level of Xerox. Read the full show notes for this episode at petersimoons.com

Eric Moss is an Alliance and Partner professional with a specialty in solution development and Go-to-Market (GTM) relationships between technology firms and Systems Integrators (SI’s).  In this episode of the Collaborative Business Podcast I am in conversation with Eric Moss and we explore what the Challenger Sale is and how it applies to strategic alliances. Find the shownotes at petersimoons.com

“We need to be aware of the fact that it is a learning by doing process”, those are the parting words of Elke Jeurissen in this conversation. Cato Léonard adds to that that we need courageous managers to create successful collaborations with other partners. External collaborations are often outside of our comfort zone, yet that is where we need to go to create successful collaborations that open new roads.    Read the full shownotes at http://petersimoons.com

In this episode of the Collaborative Business Podcast I am in conversation with Ramanath Suryaprakash, who is a Global Alliance Manager at Infosys. Ram is based in Seattle and works from there with 10 to 15 alliance partners who are located across the globe and often, like Infosys, also work across the globe.    Working in global alliances... http://petersimoons.com

  In last weeks episode we looked at a the Alliance Value Proposition, an important element when working together in strategic alliances. This week let’s have a look at another important element: finding the right partner.

This episode of the Collaborative Business Podcast is about the importance of a good Alliance Value Proposition as one of the cornerstones for your alliance.

In episode 52 of the Collaborative Business Podcast John Bell is my guest. John Bell is a professor of strategic alliances at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. John focusses in his work on cooperation and the strategy for companies and the competences for strategic alliances.    Watch this episode with John and learn why being serious about alliances and partnerships is a no-brainer with an easy return on investment.   Find the full shownotes and links here at petersimoons.com

In the previous two episodes of the collaborative business podcast I have been looking forward to collaboration in 2015 with two long time alliance experts. Those insightful conversations looked predominantly at expectations for strategic alliances in the corporate world. In this episode we are shifting gears and looking ahead with Amber Vilhauer into collaboration for entrepreneurs in 2015.   As you will hear, Amber quickly focusses on online as the big enabler for collaboration. Working with a team of 10 people in the USA and South Africa herself, Amber knows like no one else how working online can stimulate collaboration. Testing her on a quote I recently heard on a podcast, Amber sees no real benefits over face to face collaboration versus online collaboration. With the modern day tools we have at our disposal, collaboration can be seamless across borders.    Tune in to listen to this lively conversation with Amber Vilhauer and learn some potential new ways of collaborating online as an entrepreneur! Full shownotes at petersimoons.com