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    Your online learning journey

    Designed to build the right partnerships for your business.

    Your online learning journey

    Designed to build the right partnerships for your business.

    Program overview
    Unit 1: Strategic partnerships and ecosystems: introduction
    • Record an individual introduction.
    • Formulate your learning objectives.
    • Discover the “Five S” framework.
    Unit 2: Strategizing: make the best case to develop partnerships
    • Explore disruption by competitors with faster innovation cycles.
    • Reflect on disruption by competitors with alternative business models.
    • Apply learning to innovation partnerships.
    Unit 3: Scouting: finding the right partners
    • Learn how to find strategic partnerships.
    • Outline screening potential partnerships.
    • Apply lessons to your own partnership situation.
    Unit 4: Structuring: choosing equity vs. non equity
    • Determine how to choose the right equity structure.
    • Consider the role of contracts in structuring and running partnerships.
    Unit 5: Structuring: negotiation approaches to strategic partnerships
    • Simulate the negotiation of a joint venture.
    • Explore ways to structure the partnership.
    Unit 6: Structuring: organization & governance for successful partnerships
    • Reflect on the organization of a successful strategic partnership.
    • Outline the operation of a successful strategic partnership.
    • Understand the needs of each party.
    Unit 7: Starting: building a positive momentum of trust
    • Observe the inherent instability of strategic partnerships.
    • Learn about centrality of trust.
    • Consider how to avoid the “contractual obligation” path.
    Unit 8: Steering: studying & steering the partnership ecosystem
    • Explore steering strategic partnerships.
    • Reflect on learning from experience.
    • Draw inspiration from effective management and leadership.

    One-on-one coaching

    Throughout your online learning, you’ll be accompanied by an experienced IMD executive coach who will challenge you, encourage you, and provide valuable feedback on your weekly assignments. Together, you’ll dive deeper into the program content and make it meaningful to your own professional context. Your interactions will take place via video, in writing, and over the phone.

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    Your expert coach helps you:

    Define

    Define your learning objectives and stay on track.

    Review

    Review your progress on a weekly basis.

    Overcome

    Overcome your challenges.

    Apply

    Apply what you learn to your own context.

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    Reinforce and consolidate your expertise in leadership, strategy, or digital acceleration through an immersive, fully online experience incorporating executive coaching.

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