Today everyone talks about collaboration. It's the buzzword of the 21st century. From collaboration in the boardroom, to the conference room, across industries, geographies and culture, it is indeed the leadership capability needed to build business alliances and partnerships and tackle the world’s toughest challenges. From product design to the sourcing of raw materials, and across channel relationships, partnerships and alliances are interwoven across all supply and demand elements of corporate value creation. Even non-for-profits, NGO's and Public Entities seek alliances and partnerships to meet the needs of an increasingly interdependent and interconnected humanity.
In this cutting-edge work and first-ever "how-to" guide for building successful collaborations, Martin Echavarria, a business collaboration expert sets out to improve the success rates of strategic alliances and partnerships to become more competitive, more nimble, and more innovative. To do this, he introduces us to a framework that combines a collaborative leadership methodology with a breakthrough alliance development process applied to any industry or size of partnering organizations. Applying his unique approach, collaboration emerges as teams work to develop business alliances. In turn they become resilient to change and able to capitalize on innovative-co-created-opportunities.
This book is an essential guide for any innovator who is interested in driving tremendous value and success for themselves and their companies in this new world of global business alliances.
Martin Echavarria has focused his professional career on collaboration, the nexus where individuals and small groups come together to work productively. From building strategic alliances and partnerships across industries, culture, and geographies, to coaching executives and their teams to collaborate effectively, Martin has successfully combined alliance development know-how with collaborative-leadership methodologies.
He has over 15 years' experience of enabling strategic collaborations between global companies. He earned a Master's Degree in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, a Bachelor's Degree in Business and Political Science from Emory University, and studied strategic alliances at the Wharton School, Integral Coaching at New Ventures West and Leadership for Collective Intelligence at Dialogos.
He has dedicated himself to the identification and creation of alliances through his consulting company, Coherence (coherence360.com) and has also built a successful executive leadership coaching career. Committed to collaboration, Martin has worked in alliance development and coaching with Verizon, Hewlett-Packard, American Express, MasterCard, Scotiabank, PriceSmart, Digicel, Orange Telecom, Bunge, Tam Airlines, Continental Airlines and many others.
