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Strategic relationships at IBM
* Collaborative projects across all major parts of
business services
* Funding universities in services science
* Partnership with Sony and Toshiba to produce new
processor
* Computer code shared with Apache open-source
web-server
* IBM programmers work on Linux projects
* Collaborating with customers and competitors to
invent new technologies
* Strategy of openess
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Strategic Relationships
* The rationale for interorganizational
relationships
* Forms of organizational relationships
* Managing interorganizational
relationships
* Global relationships among
organizations
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The rationale for interorganizational relationships (1)
* Opportunities to enhance value
* Environmental complexity
* Competitive strategy
* Skills and resource gaps
* Technology constraints
* Financial constraints
* Market access
* Information technology
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Collaborations in open-source software
* IBM and Sun aggressive supporters of
Linux open-source software
* Technology sharing and partnerships
* Rebuilding the technology
“ecosystem”
* Reducing dependence on Microsoft
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Airline Alliances
* Major global alliances
* Oneworld
* Skyteam
* Star Alliance
* Contain 18 of the world’s largest airline
* Account for 60% of total world airline
capacity
* But a history of alliance failures and
desertions
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The rationale for interorganizational relationships (2)
* Evaluating the potential for
collaboration
* What is the strategy?
* The costs of collaboration
* Is relationship strategy essential?
* Are good candidates available?
* Do relationships fit our culture?
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Mapping the Path to Market Leadership
Market-Oriented
Culture and
Process
Superior
Customer
Value
Proposition
Positioning
with Distinctive
Competencies
Relationship
Strategies
Organizational
Change
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Forms of organizational relationships (2)
* Strategic alliances
* Alliance success
* Alliance weaknesses
* Types of alliance
* Requirements for alliance success
* Alliance vulnerabilities
* Joint ventures
* Internal partnering
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CostCo Versus Wal-Mart
* CostCo has achieved major position in U.S.
warehouse club business against strong
competitors
* Success based on customer choice and
constant innovation and productivity
improvement
* CostCo compensates employees more
generously than competitors - to motivate
and retain good workers - they get lower
staff turnover and higher productivity
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Managing interorganizational relationships (1)
* Objective of the relationship
* New technologies and competencies
* Developing new markets and building
market position
* Market selectivity
* Restructuring and cost reduction
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Managing interorganizational relationships (2)
* Relationship management
* Planning
* Trust and self-interest
* Conflicts
* Leadership structure
* Flexibility
* Cultural differences
* Technology transfer
* Learning from partner’s strengths
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Managing interorganizational relationships (3)
* Partnering capabilities
* Control, evaluation and review
* Exiting from alliance
* Identify/agree what triggers exit
* Detail rights of each partner to
assets/products
* Design disengagement process
* Communication plan for all involved
parties
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Global relationships among organizations
* The Global Integrated Enterprise
* Inter-nation collaborations
* The strategic role of government
* Government interventions
* Competing with state-owned enterprises
* Collaborating with state-owned
enterprises
* Government regulation