Wednesday, November 13, 2013

WE HANG TOGETHER

The Role of Interdependence in Strategic Collaboration 
- Interdependence: the underlying key to any strategic alliance, community partnership, or interpersonal collaboration.
- Inter-organizational relationships can be competitive, dependent, or both.
- "Strategic alliance" refers to collaborative relationships and endeavors.
- We depend on other people for our own existence and survival.
- Business endurance is mistakenly characterized as competition, rather than dependence.   

SURVIVAL OF THE INTERDEPENDENT
- Companies and executives "fight the drought" rather than find way to "attract moisture."
- Darwin's model of evolution illustrates the natural tendencies to create relationships, networks, and communities. 
- Human factors play a major role in the successful implementation of any independent effort.
- One must have an understanding of the qualities of collaboration and how people and culture within the organization will be perceived in order to use interdependence most efficiently.
-  Conducting and organizational audit is the first step to creating a strategic relationship.

AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE FALLACY OF "GOING IT ALONE"
 - The ideal of independence has help many people achieve great things and inspired freedom, creativity, innovation, and a high level of achievement and perceived self-worth.
- Deep down we need other people and strategic relationships. 
- Even the most powerful executive office functions best through interdependence (People rarely do it alone).
- "it isn't the money that sinks a partnership or an alliance - it's the people."
- Young individuals must unlearn what they think about individual performance.

VALUES OF STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS
- The values of strategic relationship are often tied to the values of the participating organizations (include: integrity, quality. and speed).
- Business relationships are more likely to be short and not loyal.
- Partners act out of self-interest rather than do what is right.
- Interdependence requires that one party do for the other and vice versa.
- Partners must agree to values that reflect their operations, rather than some utopian ideal.

CAPACITY BUILDING AND COMMUNITY
- Companies act strategically to be good corporate citizens and establish positive public relationships with communities.
- Internet presence a unique opportunity for companies to create an interdependent network.
- Companies maintain their integrity and their market share at the same time with interdependence.

THE TECHNIQUE OF THE MARKETPLACE
- We need each other.
- Interdependence works more effectively than independence.
- Effective interdependence not only facilitates business success, but the preservation of an environment.

No comments:

Post a Comment