© 2002 Makesfive ltd & EDuce ltd

THE BENEFITS OF
BUSINESS PARTNERING

Win More Business

Spread Risks

Reduce Costs
  • increased range of customers
  • improved market intelligence
  • greater critical mass: ability to demonstrate collective capability
  • complementary strengths, resources, perspectives
  • greater flexibility within a team
  • pool resources
  • share costs of common functions (eg, product distribution; quality systems; sourcing and managing training)
  • strengthen negotiating power to obtain discounts when purchasing
  • attract public funding (eg, from European sources) which are often dependent on partnerships between businesses and with the public sector
Add Value to Products & Processes
  • innovation: new, more effective ways of doing things
Achieving more together than individual partners
can achieve
on their own

Prompts

What must you do to ensure you achieve the full potential of partnering opportunities?

How can you maximise win-win outcomes?

Are there benefits that you're missing?

Be clear about what you want to
achieve from the start.

Take regular stock of the gains you're expecting
and whether they are materialising