Connecting with Others:The Ins and Outs of Strategic Alliances
By Paul TerlemezianTwitter: iFiveAlliances
http://ifivealliances.ning.comiFive Alliances, LLC
Greater Women’s Business Council
August 5, 2009
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Please ask me a question about
strategic alliances
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Paul Terlemezian, Founder of iFive Alliances, LLC - 2003
• 2008 President ASTD Atlanta, 2009 Board of Directors
• TAG (Technology Association of Georgia) Leadership Council, 2009 BOD
• TAG WLS (WorkPlace Learning Society Founder and Current Chair– 2008)
• ASAP (Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals) Affiliate Chair- Southeast Chapter
• Guest Speaker (Atlanta IT Alliance, Institute of Management Consultants, Vistage, Managing Your Business as an Asset (TAG) , C-Level Enterprises, 2008 Supplier Summit, BrainTrust, LearnTrends)
• DEC, IBM (Catapult Division), KnowledgeWare (Sterling Software), Caliber, Media1st, iLearning
Summary Background
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Today’s Outline
1. Differentiation via Alliances (Go to Market = Attitude; Imagination)
2. The Sixteen Types of Alliances and When to Use Them (Power = Choice; Impact)
3. The Eight Success Factors to Assure the Success of an Alliance (Tools = Confidence; Integrity)
4. The Six Methods of Finding the Best Alliance Partners for Your Business (Success = Execution; Implementation)
5. Alliances Business Plan (Accountability x Relevance = Sustainability;
Income)
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Differentiation
1. Capabilities
2. Risk Mitigation
3. Terms and Conditions
4. Convenience
5. Intangibles
6. Price
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Differentiation Model
Prospect Your Offering
Installed Competitor
Potential Competitor
Prospect Expressed Interest
Capabilities
Risk Mitigation
Terms and Conditions
Convenience
Intangibles
Price
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Getting Your Foot in the DoorWhich Door? Three Choices
• Front Door – To win new business when you have a 3 to 1 advantage
• Side Door – To win new business when you have an alliance and combine to create a 3 to 1 advantage.
• Back Door – When you have an alliance with a company that is:– Already doing business with your prospect– Willing to include your offering as part of their
existing offering
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The Eight Success FactorsTrusted Partners, by Jordan D. Lewis
1. A priority mutual need2. Interpersonal relationships3. Top executives are involved4. Mutually agreed upon objectives5. Safeguards6. Commitment7. Willingness to evolve8. Continuity is evident to clients
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Sixteen Types of Alliances
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Strategic Alliances
Other Party Interest
Decision Role Wallet
Product
(traditional)
Price Dependable Customer
Process
(consultative)
Total Cost Consultant Client
New Value
(collaborative)
Profit Expert Client
Added Value and Awareness
(strategic)
Differentiation Market Maker Third Party
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Sixteen Types of Alliances
1. Awareness2. Added Value
4 TypesAwareness Value Add & awareness
Value Add
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Sixteen Types of Alliances
Control
Investment
Awareness
Added Value
Value Add & Awareness
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Sixteen Types of Alliances
Control
Awareness
AGENT
Value add & awareness
VAR
Awareness
DIRECT
Value add & awareness
ACQUISITION
COLLABORATION
Value add
SELLING
PARTNER
INTERNET
Value add
JOINT VENTURE
Investment Awareness
SPONSOR
Value add & awareness
INTEGRATOR
Awareness
RETAIL
Value add & awareness
FRANCHISE
LEAD SOURCE
Value add
CONSORTIUM
DISTRIBUTOR
Value add
OEM
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Six Methods for Finding Alliance Partners
1. Compelling Events (Triggers)
2. Discipline of Market Leaders
3. Whole Product
4. Customer Learning Curve
5. Segmentation
6. Good to GreatCopyright 2004, iFive Alliances LLC
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Compelling Events (Triggers)
What have they been for your customers?
Who knew about them before you and your competitors?
How can you help those that knew?
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Discipline of Market Leaders, Treacy and Wiersema
1. Operational Excellence – the lowest cost, most readily available product
2. Product Leadership – Simply the best
3. Customer Intimacy – The best for you, dear customer
What’s your brand?
Are you willing to expand via alliances?
Why would the partner want to do this?
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Whole Product
In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore writes:
“There is a gap between the marketing promise made to the customer – and the ability of the shipped product to fulfill that promise. For that gap to be overcome, the product must be augmented by a variety of services and ancillary products to become the whole product.”
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Customer Learning Curve (CLC)
The Customer Learning Curve, Hellman and Burst
Learning about
Deciding to buy
Purchasing
Experiencing success
Continuing to buy
Which of the eight steps in the CLC will provide alliances?
(Need, Awareness, Access, Motivation, Purchase, Use, Value, Loyalty)
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Segmentation
•Heterogeneous market into homogeneous segments
•Separate marketing programs for each segment.
•Measurable, large, reachable, responsive, stable
•Geography, economic factors, existing loyalties, industry, company size, intended use of product
Good To GreatBy, Jim Collins
First who – then what!
22This picture was drawn by Erika Aoyama on February 17, 2003.
“Trust is Mightier than the Pen”Paul Terlemezian, frequently since 2003
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Alliances Business Plan
1. Goal (How much revenue and in what defined interval)2. Strategy (How it will be accomplished)3. Success Factors (From Jordan Lewis)4. Tactics (Three to Five per Success Factor)5. Responsibility (Who will execute each tactic)6. Measurement (Include intervals and review meetings
with predefined dates and agenda)7. Rewards (Commissions, Co-ops, Overrides, Tangibles)8. Contingency Plan (If… then… predetermined)
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