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?

1. Formulate why, how and with what kind of company to use a partnering approach.
2. Select highly compatible, experienced candidates to explore partnerships with.
3. Enhance awareness of those activities that can make a difference between success and failure of the new partnerships
4. Deploy the practices that really matter to all teams and departments that play a role in executing the partnership business plan
5. Optimize the consistency of practice use across all partnerships
6. 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.