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F rom Alliance Management to
Partnering Everywhere

deployed, with the requisite mindset, skillset,
and toolset to achieve strategic objectives.

Just as digital business transformation must be led by
the executive suite, so too must the executive suite take
the lead in developing the partnering capability it requires, evolving from today's alliance management
capability. However, alliance executives are the designers and implementers.

Assembles the ecosystem that can develop
	
and deliver required solutions. This means

it has to work closely with senior leadership,
line managers, and front line staff to understand and align with their priorities.

Begin with the end in mind, building an outside-in, holistic perspective on what the capability must be. Start
by developing specific initiatives to close gaps between
current capability and capability needed to achieve critical milestones. Focus on:

Puts in place close to the customer an "execu	
tion engine" through the use of a consistent

partnering framework. This framework de-

fines the elements that ensure readiness to
engage in either get-to-market or go-to-market activities within the ecosystem.

u	 The partner ecosystem and the development
process, including onboarding partners.

	Implements the partner management pro
cess ensuring that roles and responsibilities

v	The partner experience required to attract

are clear, governance routines are carried

and retain desirable partners and achieve

out, decisions are made, and value created,

objectives.

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