Alliance Leadership for Corporate Performance

ASAP is the leading global professional association dedicated to the formation and practice of strategic alliances. We provide a forum to exchange alliance best practices and resources. ASAP members may earn the Certification of Achievement in Alliance Management (CA-AM). See "Careers" for details. Our Job Bank (www.asap-jobs.com) contains hundreds of strategic alliance jobs and related positions in channel management, business development, supply chain, research and development, and more. 

Save the Dates - Upcoming Conferences 

ASAP Collaborative Innovation Council, August 19, 2008, Bentley College, Waltham, MA. Details coming soon.

ASAP-CHI  Bio-Pharma Alliance Summit, November 3-6, 2008, Hyatt Regency, Boston. To submit a presentation proposal, click here.

ASAP's 2009 Alliance Summit, February 9-12, Ft. Lauderdale (Florida) Grande Hotel and Yacht Club.The great energy created at Summit 2008 is still circulating, and planning for next year's conference has begun.  Stay tuned for step one:  The call for presentations.  And plan to join hundreds of your alliance colleagues early next year. 

AMA Classes - Schedule / ASAP Discount

Did you know that ASAP members receive a 10% discount on all courses offered by the American Management Association (AMA)?  Don't miss out on this benefit!  Upcoming seminars in alliance management will be held in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and Atlanta.  For details and registration information, click here.

Strategic Alliance Best Practices

Our monthly e-newsletter, the Best Practice Bulletin, provides members with cutting-edge articles, white papers and other research results pertaining to best practices in strategic alliance management.  Submissions are welcome.  For information, please contact Norma Watenpaugh, ASAP Vice Chair and Chair, Best Practice Committee  (normaw@phoenixcg.com).

2008 Alliance Excellence Award Winners

We salute EDS, Cisco, Fujitsu, Lilly, Roche, and Gilead Sciences for their outstanding strategic alliances, alliance programs, and use of alliance best practices.  These companies received the 2008 Alliance Excellence Awards at ASAP's recent global Alliance Summit, as follows:

Alliance Program Excellence
EDS - for its Agility Alliance Program, a systematic, world-class approach to forming and managing an integrated portfolio of major alliances.

Individual Alliance Excellence 
Cisco and Fujitsu - for the sophistication of their alliance that spans the full value chain of product development, quality, services, support, and sales with the added challenge of managing a multi-cultural business on a global scale.

Alliances for Corporate Social Responsibility
Eli Lilly and Company - for its Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Partnership, a global public-private alliance that is working to save lives by preventing and treating MDR-TB.  Roche - for the Roche Tamiflu Alliance program that has responded proactively to the emergence of the potential threat of a global Avian bird flu pandemic.  Gilead Sciences received an honorable mention for its part in the Roche Tamiflu Alliance.

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