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IBM Changes the Role of Vendors in Achieving Marketplace Success: A Best Practice Study on Creating Team-Driven Partnerships for the Future
WinterGreen Research, Inc., March 2005, Pages: 240
Global Digital Environment Depends on Leadership and Partnering
The corporate culture of teams is a corporate culture is based on partners sharing years of technology and manufacturing experience. Every partnership depends on a small group (fewer than 200 people) getting together to accomplish a competitive challenge. In the partnership organized as a team, everyone is equal in this lattice organization with no hierarchy or organizational charts.
Each business team operates as an entrepreneurial organization, with team-based development efforts and one-on-one communication. The support of a well-established multinational business enterprise is central to partnering in the efforts to implement horizontal integration of business process in midrange company markets.
Resource is central to making partnerships work. The large enterprise partner brings resource in the form of marketing thrust, products, management expertise, financing, and development money.
The reason partnerships need to be implemented as teams with lattice organization, no hierarchy, and no organizational charts is that partnership provide the large enterprises with a local presence all over the world.
Global digital environment depends on leadership and partnering to bring pervasive technologies into local environments. Outsourcing is being redefined as partnering. Every products and service needs to be implemented in the context of local business context. Just as all politics is local, so also all business is local.
Based on our thesis that new corporate teams are a reflection of sports teams, we look at sports in the context of new business technology and new business initiatives to see if there are techniques in sports that are useful for business partnering. Sports teams have been around as long as business, but sports have always been ad hoc organizations, basically unstructured.
Businesses have more traditionally been organized hierarchically with authoritarian infrastructure. We look at corporate teams as moving to achieve competitive advantage by using the techniques of collaboration that have been developed by sports teams for winning games. The techniques of collaboration that have been developed by sports teams are useful for business, as partnering becomes a more significant aspect of conducting business globally.
Use of teams in the development of business goals has been problematic. As partnering becomes more necessary in global economic structures, teams are emerging as a way to conduct business.
The teams, the players, the level of effort in sports, the level of cooperation are all models for teaming and partnerships in business. The ambiance of sports is appealing in and of itself, but the message is definite and transportable to business. Team effort requires cooperation between the members of the team. Individual effort is not enough; the partners need to work toward a common goal in order to achieve competitive advantage.
Partnerships and teams take on added importance as the global economy heads toward one dominated by Small and Medium Size Businesses (enterprises) or usually referred in shorthand as SMBs or SMEs. SMBs represent over 5 percent of the U.S. GDP, an even higher percentage in Europe, and up to 80 percent of the GDP in India, China, and Japan.
The growth and importance of SMB's in the worldwide economy is going to continue to grow and thus big firms and small must learn work together and form strong partnerships or they will be left behind.
In the forefront, the music was blasting, 'It's going to be a heartache tonight?' The spectators were transfixed in their chairs as the team walked off. Was this the end of another Red Sox game on a balmy September evening? Not quite, but it was very reminiscent of that. It had the same feeling. This was entertainment at its very best, this was the involvement of the audience at the very deepest level, and this was complete attention to the team.
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