Synopsis
It enables you to hold a yardstick up to every facet of your business alliance, including productivity, decision-making, and team performance. The book points out important yet often-neglected metrics-such as how long it takes to make decisions, and when to implement damage control-showing you how to develop and use the appropriate metrics accurately and intelligently. Weaving together real-life case studies with practical applications you can readily adapt to your own organization, "Measuring the Value of Partnering" applies the everyday arithmetic of business to the art (and science) of alliance management. The book shows you how to balance the external needs of shareholders, customers, and suppliers with daily procedural concern of the newly-joined partners. Taking into account the number of diverse issues that affect alliances from all directions and perspectives, "Measuring the Value of Partnering" turns the daunting task of partnering into a readily attainable project. Packed with useful insider tips, the book helps you examine even the most complex of corporate partnerships, and use the results to achieve the greatest possible impact. The book includes measurements for everything from productivity, to decision making, team performance, and damage control, and illustrates how to develop the appropriate metrics-as well as how and when to use them. "Measuring the Value of Partnering" gives you a complete system for accurately assessing your corporate alliance, finding out what works, what doesn't and how to pave the way to improvement.
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Biographie de l'auteur
Larraine Segil is a senior executive with extensive entrepreneurial, management, start-up, and turnaround experience. She is world renowned for her expertise in cross cultural conflict resolution and the creation, implementation, and management of complex business alliances and outsourcing relationships in a multitude of industries. Through knowledge gained while living in South Africa, Canada, the Middle East, and other areas, Larraine possesses a successful record for innovative problem solving, leading to buy-in for complex change management in cross-cultural organizations. For more than 20 years Larraine presented "Global Alliances" as part of the executive education program at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to senior executives and instructed executive education programs worldwide. She is Vice Chairperson of the Governing Board and Chairperson of the Foundation Board for The Committee of 200, a global organization comprised of female business leaders striving to provide women with business advancement, education, mentoring, and recognition. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker and has made numerous appearances on CNN and CNBC regarding topics including alliances and mergers, both global and domestic, as well as critical customer supplier, channel, and outsourcing relationships. Larraine and her husband live on an urban farm with a vineyard, 300 exotic fruit trees, and a banana plantation in California where they raise goats, chickens, quail, and tilapia. She makes cheeses, jams, relishes, and breads to provide to local chefs, family, and friends. Larraine also loves to spend as much time as is possible with her son, her daughter-in-law, and her four beautiful grandsons.
Présentation de l'éditeur
It enables you to hold a yardstick up to every facet of your business alliance, including productivity, decision-making, and team performance. The book points out important yet often-neglected metrics-such as how long it takes to make decisions, and when to implement damage control-showing you how to develop and use the appropriate metrics accurately and intelligently. Weaving together real-life case studies with practical applications you can readily adapt to your own organization, "Measuring the Value of Partnering" applies the everyday arithmetic of business to the art (and science) of alliance management. The book shows you how to balance the external needs of shareholders, customers, and suppliers with daily procedural concern of the newly-joined partners. Taking into account the number of diverse issues that affect alliances from all directions and perspectives, "Measuring the Value of Partnering" turns the daunting task of partnering into a readily attainable project. Packed with useful insider tips, the book helps you examine even the most complex of corporate partnerships, and use the results to achieve the greatest possible impact. The book includes measurements for everything from productivity, to decision making, team performance, and damage control, and illustrates how to develop the appropriate metrics-as well as how and when to use them. "Measuring the Value of Partnering" gives you a complete system for accurately assessing your corporate alliance, finding out what works, what doesn't and how to pave the way to improvement.
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