Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships - by Richard Gibbs & Andrew Humphries (Hardcover)

About the Book

Dealing with key topics such as supply chain management, marketing channels, and relationship management, "Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships" identifies the key factors that determine partnering excellence and how to make decisions to improve both the relationship and productivity.

Book Synopsis

Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships will help you to understand how partnerships function and how you can manage them more effectively and efficiently. Based on solid research and dealing with key topics such as supply chain management, marketing channels and relationship management, it identifies the key factors that determine partnering excellence. Whatever the nature of the relationship - whether outsourcing, strategic alliances or co-manufacturing, there are eight distinctive relationship types identified by the authors to help managers optimize their business to business partnerships.

With case studies from prominent, global organizations such as Walmart, Toyota, General Motors and Dell, Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships will help you to understand the problems that affect partnering and how to make effective management decisions to improve both the relationship and productivity.

Review Quotes

"The authors are to be congratulated on drawing attention to all the options and the loopholes to guard against in selecting collaborators."-- "Engineering & Technology"

"The authors have certainly done a sterling job - thorough, practical and scholarly, reflecting their own experience and credentials."

About the Author

Richard Gibbs is an expert in relationship marketing and has held senior positions in major companies including Xerox and Novell Inc. His PhD from University of Gloucestershire was followed by an MBA from Henley Management College, and he continues to research into how firms gain competitive advantage through marketing channels.

Andrew Humphries is currently CEO of SCCI Ltd, a company that specialises in measuring commercial relationship performance. Following a career in UK Royal Air Force as Head of Defence Aviation Logistics, he gained a PhD from Cranfield School of Management and an MBA from the Open University.