Strategic Partnerships Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Strategic Partnerships Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Strategic Partnerships related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Strategic Partnerships specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Strategic Partnerships Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Strategic Partnerships improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. In cases where differential growth rates lead to a significant disparity in power or influence within the partnership, how can the partner with the slower growth rate maintain its autonomy and decision-making authority, and what strategies can be employed to prevent the dominant partner from exerting undue influence?
   
   

2. In situations where conflicting communication styles lead to misunderstandings or conflicts, what escalation procedures do companies have in place to address and resolve these issues, and how do they ensure that learnings from these experiences are incorporated into their partnership management practices?
   
   

3. What role can third-party facilitators, mediators, or arbitrators play in ensuring fairness and equity in strategic partnerships, particularly in situations where disputes or conflicts arise, and how can companies effectively utilize these resources to resolve disputes in a fair and timely manner?
   
   

4. In what ways can companies leverage contractual provisions, such as exclusivity clauses and territorial restrictions, to maintain control over their intellectual property while still collaborating with partners, and what are the implications of these provisions on the partnership dynamics?
   
   

5. In partnerships where there are significant power imbalances or unequal levels of influence, how do companies ensure that their communication style does not inadvertently dominate or marginalize their partners, and what steps do they take to promote more equal and reciprocal communication?
   
   

6. How can the partnership's overall performance and success be measured and evaluated when partnering with companies that have different organizational structures, and what key performance indicators (KPIs) should be used to assess the partnership's progress towards its goals and objectives?
   
   

7. In cases where partnerships involve multiple partners with disparate resources and capabilities, how do companies manage the complexity and potential conflicts that may arise, and what frameworks or structures do they use to coordinate and integrate the contributions of multiple partners?
   
   

8. What specific safeguards or measures can companies implement to protect their intellectual property while still benefiting from collaborative knowledge sharing with their partners, and how can they ensure that these measures are mutually agreed upon and respected by all parties involved?
   
   

9. In what ways can differences in leadership styles impact the ability to establish trust, build relationships, and foster a sense of mutual understanding and respect between partnering companies, and what strategies can be employed to promote trust-building and relationship-building?
   
   

10. In what ways can strategic partnerships with companies having different innovation cycles facilitate or hinder the development of new business models, revenue streams, and value propositions, and what strategies can be employed to maximize the creative potential of the partnership?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Strategic Partnerships book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Strategic Partnerships self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Strategic Partnerships Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Strategic Partnerships areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Strategic Partnerships Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Strategic Partnerships projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Strategic Partnerships Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Strategic Partnerships project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Does your organization have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
   
   

2. Procurement Management Plan: Was your organizations estimating methodology being used and followed?
   
   

3. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree do team members articulate the teams work approach?
   
   

4. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Identify potential or actual overruns and underruns?
   
   

5. Project Schedule: Are the original Strategic Partnerships project schedule and budget realistic?
   
   

6. Activity Duration Estimates: Are contingency plans created to prepare for risk events to occur?
   
   

7. Executing Process Group: Just how important is your work to the overall success of the Strategic Partnerships project?
   
   

8. Procurement Audit: Are procedures established so that vendors with poor quality or late delivery are identified to eliminate additional dealings with that vendor?
   
   

9. Scope Management Plan: Have all involved Strategic Partnerships project stakeholders and work groups committed to the Strategic Partnerships project?
   
   

10. Variance Analysis: Is data disseminated to the contractors management timely, accurate, and usable?


 
Step-by-step and complete Strategic Partnerships Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Strategic Partnerships project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Strategic Partnerships project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Strategic Partnerships project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Strategic Partnerships project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Strategic Partnerships project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Strategic Partnerships project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Strategic Partnerships project with this in-depth Strategic Partnerships Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Strategic Partnerships projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Strategic Partnerships and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Strategic Partnerships investments work better.

This Strategic Partnerships All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.