Are you using your GAPP?

GAPP ("Generally Accepted Partnering Practices") are those practices that support a company's ability to develop and manage successful long term partnerships. You can now compare apples-to-apples those companies that have taken the PRS and developed a score based on the same practices you use.

GAPP are based on contributions from a variety of sources:

Allinnova's own research and combined expertise in this area of business.
Experience from partnership managers, alliance management practitioners and others who participate in our regular research projects.
The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), the pre-eminent organization promoting better awareness and application of Alliance Management as a business model and professional discipline.
Academics from leading university's, such as Prof. Ard-Pieter de Man at Free University Amsterdam and Prof. Gautam Ahuja at University of Michigan who perform groundbreaking research in this subject matter area.

Why GAPP?

You want to make as few mistakes as possible, and at the same time increase your chances of sustained success as much as possible.

GAPP are practices that enhance your potential for partnering success. With GAPP, you benefit from the experience of peers and leading partnering companies worldwide. These organizations that incorporated partnering as their central 'way of doing business'. They actively investigate what works, how to use it consistently, and how to improve on it. Key is to make sure that everyone in the company understands the approach to partnering, so that success is not solely dependent on a few 'expert superstars'.

How can your company benefit with GAPP?

Formulate why, how and with what kind of company to use a partnering approach.
Select highly compatible, experienced candidates to explore partnerships with.
Enhance awareness of those activities that can make a difference between success and failure of the new partnerships
Deploy the practices that really matter to all teams and departments that play a role in executing the partnership business plan
Optimize the consistency of practice use across all partnerships
Evaluate the success of each partnership by comparing use of practices with the performance reporting your company already uses.

Allinnova actively supports companies with GAPP-based tools and implementation services that help get the most out of using this approach to improving your company's partnering game. Our Allinnova certified consulting partners assist with a broad range of partnering challenges that our tools may identify for your specific business needs.

Introducing the Partnering Readiness Score

What is it?

The Allinnova PRS is an assessment service with online components that enables you to visualize your organization's capability to partner, whether bi-lateral or in an ecosystem of partners. PRS Score is the summary of our alignment gap analysis and optimization strategy process, applied specifically to your context.

Our PRS is a continuing refinement on the Alliance Management best practices from the Association of Alliance Management Professionals (ASAP) and other sources. Combining our own experience, with that of practitioners, ASAP's own best practice committee as well as academic research, we have developed a unique product with the following benefits:

Grounded in thoroughly vetted, generally adopted practices that are relevant to partnering
Independently managed instruments and process, to safeguard bias in the results
Regularly updated weighting scales to reflect relative importance of practices
Practitioner oriented, real world practices and evaluation methods: efficient, effective ad results oriented.

At what point should an organization deploy our gap analysis?

Preparation for Partnering: The readiness assessment. Do we have the right personnel and do they need additional training/support?
Internal Alignment: Enabling the alliance partners to have regular constructive review and enhancement planning meetings together
Strategic Objective Implementation: Is our Alliance capability able to support the strategic demands of the company?
Alliance Responsibility: Will everyone in our organization constructively be able to take on responsibility for Alliance related activities?
Successful onboarding: implementation of the alliance plans in the first 18 months.

Why deploy a gap analysis project with your partner organizations?

We believe it is time to make some changes in how you are monitoring the success of your alliance efforts. No more guessing at performance indicators, no more defending the crucial need for your activities in the absence of quarterly results. Your team needs to have a handle on what practices to implement and how well they are being followed.

We have refined the concept of 'best practice' by analyzing which best practices contribute more significantly to partnering ROI than others. The result is GAPP, the Generally Accepted Partnering Practices. GAPP are an integral part of our PRS scoring and analysis tools, giving you a sophisticated insight into the current state of partnering in your organization, as well as a unique ability to compare other organizations apples-to-apples.

The Allinnova PRS can provide you that insight:

Anonymously
Comprehensively
Based on industry best practices
Within a time frame that is acceptable to you
Repeatable as often as you desire

Why not review the organization's capability today?

All diagnostic assessments offer the following features:

Worldwide access through Internet
Client level administration and configuration
Centralized results reporting
Sophisticated statistical graphing
Reduced resource and finance needs to execute
Initial consulting time included to configure and train

Can't wait to see more? Use our Proof of Concept option to test the waters: Follow this link to our Proof of Concept description