In the last few years, more and more leading companies have started realizing that not taking advantage of possible business collaborations between them will harm their goals of gaining a strategic advantage and achieving rapid growth fast. The key for quick and substantial growth is first and foremost the ability to share strategically with other organizations, including rivals.
What made this change happen?
Sharing Resources
The Global Economy- means that wares, ideas, people, cultures and services are moving freely across national borders. When you look closely at the factors that caused globalization to spread so rapidly in the last decades, you find that technology was the main factor. Technology has shortened distances, created large communication networks, allowed us to be exposed to different cultures and even improve our lifestyle. Dealing with this tremendous global space required collaboration between many business corporations around the globe, mainly to ease development and distribution efforts.
The Need For Knowledge – is growing rapidly and the knowledge to be gained is now more diverse, multidisciplinary, faster and complex. This need requires that we share with others in creating data sources that are needed in the business world. We need external feeds from different sources to enrich the organization’s knowledge, and without it the organization won’t survive in the modern business world.
The Demand for Immediacy- This is a critical factor in global economy. Everybody wants everything, faster, sooner, and quicker. In this age, when a technology can become dated faster than it was developed, it’s crucial for different organization to collaborate. A firm that insists on doing everything on its own will soon find out that it’s already too late and it missed the market. Companies that participate in these collaborations will always be faster in reaching the market, dealing with changes and empowering their synergy.
The complexity of Technology- This is the simple fact that, if we take a look at the products that we use today, we will find that most of them were not here in the same configuration only few years ago. Every product now has new features, new capabilities or is totally new. There is always a human hunger for newer and better technologies and that is why the complexity is always growing. So what is the easiest and fastest way to produce this new technology? You probably guessed it right: create business collaborations that allow the merging of different technologies and ideas to new and improved products.
Now one might ask what are the factors for a successful collaboration? The main factors are:
• Mutual interest in which each partner knows what he is getting from the collaboration.
• Organizational culture that embraces changes.
• Preliminary planning for setting the collaboration goals.
The same concept applies in the CEO game as well. It will prove to be very hard for one company to research new products, produce them, advertise them and sell them around the globe without the assistance of different companies in different ways.
The CEO Game.
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