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Strategic innovation | Partnering

Following in the scope of the value network, we found a concept in the last emergent years and that, sometimes, badly have been used. It is the concept of "partner". On the one hand, the line that separates the concept of strategic supplier of the one of a conception of "partner" is very thin.

We would be speaking of the situation in which "partner" it produces goods or services that are integrated in the product. We could say that, in this case, "partner", unlike the strategic supplier, it would assume some type of risk in the business. It would be the case of the supplier of components that, to obtain a future contract, participates and shares the risk of the development of a product. Or the one of the supplier of services to clients of another company, that has a participation in the yield of that concrete service. It is evident that the relations, in these cases, must be different from which we have with the suppliers, although are strategic. Another scope of the concept of "partner" would be the one of all those companies that offer complementary services to our product, which they cause that it can have greater acceptance in the market. A case we have it in the manufacturers of enterprise software, who need to create all an enterprise network to partner (developer, implantadores, support) and to create good relations with them, since on this fact the greater implantation of the product in market depends. The two conceptions offer great possibilities of creativity and innovation to improve our competitiveness.


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Francesc Llobet is an Internet entrepreneur and a strategy business consultant in the fields of innovation, internet marketing and ebusiness.
Based in Barcelona, Catalonia (European Union), he is the founder of Sappiens.com, The Knowledge Community and Founder and CEO of Adverstore.com, Advertising for everyOne!. He maintains InnovationThink, eMarketingThink OnlineAdvertisingThink and A Startup Story, blogs where he writes on Innovation, Internet Marketing, Advertising and Startups. To know more..

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