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                             We provide client-focused 
                                business and alliance development services on 
                                a consulting basis. Our services are 
                                completely customizable to meet your needs -- 
                                we work with a core set of best practices 
                                rather than "cookie cutters." 
                            
                                Our services focus on strategic analysis 
                                and implementation.  
                                  
                            
                                Strategic Business Analysis - The Map to Success
                                 
                            
                                Our services are based on the conviction that many technology companies self-limit their 
                                growth opportunities by over reliance on 
                                traditional business and alliance development 
                                approaches. Often, market and product 
                                analyses are not sufficiently focused or 
                                flexible enough the meet the demands of the highly 
                                dynamic, horizontally structured, and 
                                alliance dependent technology markets 
                                and value chains. In addition to 
                                traditional analysis, we can help you look at:
                             
                            
                                - Performance of your current alliance portfolio for 
                                    maximum profitability (including gap 
                                    analysis, performance metrics and partner 
                                    health diagnostics).
 
                                - Your position in your customer' value chains, 
                                    to enhance your own value chain analysis.
                                
 
                                - Leverage from alliances that can dramatically increase you market reach and product breadth.
                                
 
                                - Critical choke points that can protect your markets.
                                
 
                                - The deepest profit pools, to will increase your overall bottom line.
                                
 
                                - How to integrate all the key market develop components in a coherent, 
                                    actionable whole, company-wide. 
 
                                - Market drivers that behave more unpredictably than the traditional analysts' linear model.
                                
 
                                - Alliance life cycle analysis. 
                                
 
                                - Trend impact analysis, including Open Source Software (OSS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) to keep you ahead of the curve.
                                
 
                             
                            
                                Implementation - Achieving Success 
                            We help you move your Strategic Development plans to reality and success. Our 
                                goal is to help move you through the critical 
                                early stages of Market, Business and Alliance 
                                Development until the process matures to a 
                                repeatable sales and marketing model. Our 
                                service is based on the conviction that in 
                                today's technology marketing environment 
                                requires more than doing deals and launching 
                                marketing programs. To maximize your 
                                success we help you: 
                            
                                - Develop the right terms for the right deals with alliances and customers at 
                                    the right time.
 
                                - Frame and close the toughest of negotiations.
                                
 
                                - Use alliance balancing techniques 
                                    assure the maximize marketing and 
                                    technology payoff.
 
                                - Adjust your strategy in 
                                    light of tactical realities while 
                                    maintaining strategic objectives.
 
                                - Determine lighthouse accounts portfolio with maximum leverage and minimum resource drain.
                                
 
                                - Guide you in Best Practices to 
                                    utilized throughout the Business 
                                    Development Cycle 
 
                             
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