Monthly Archives: October 2007
Using balanced scorecards as a tool for partnership analysis
Since the concept was developed by Kaplan and Norton* in the early 1990′s balanced scorecards have become a standard part of the business planning tool-set for large companies and have accumulated a large fan base across large segments of the … Continue reading
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GE and Lilly ink cancer diagnostics linkup
In a sign of the accelerating convergence between treatments and diagnostics GE and Eli Lilly have announced a collaboration to develop in vitro diagnostic assays that may help predict cancer treatment response to targeted therapies. “The collaboration is a major … Continue reading
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GE Healthcare alliances in the medical devices and diagnostic market
GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company, has an active alliance programme in a range of technologies covering medical imaging, healthcare IT, diagnostic imaging agents, patient monitoring, drug discovery and protein separation. Much of GE Healthcare’s development … Continue reading
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Procter and Gamble relies on collaboration to drive innovation
At the start of 2000 the world largest consumer-goods company, Procter and Gamble was at a crossroads. Between January and March the companies shares fell by almost 50% from $116 to $60 per share and the company lost $85 billion … Continue reading
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Reducing alliance risks
Consultants are in business to disagree with each other. Which makes it odd that they all agree on at least one thing, somewhere around a half of all alliances ‘fail’. Some pitch the figure slightly lower and some pitch it … Continue reading
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The impact of cultural factors on alliance performance
Intangible factors such as cultural compatibility, an openness to knowledge sharing and to new ideas and a determination to make the partnership work are the most important factors in predicting the outcome of a partnership. These conclusions are drawn from … Continue reading
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